Town comparison · Kinsealy-Drinan vs Rush

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Kinsealy-Drinan or Rush?

Both towns measured at town level, not the wider Eircode area, on the same 52 figures: prices, schools, amenities, social life, commute, affluence and safety.

Kinsealy-Drinan, Co. Fingal · K67 · 7,526 people | Rush, Co. Fingal · K56 · 10,875 people

Kinsealy-Drinan is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Rush’s 2, with 1 level.

Kinsealy-Drinan leads on
affluenceeducation levelsaffordabilityaccess to its nearest city
Rush leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transport
111526

Kinsealy-Drinan aheadlevel or not comparableRush ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
Kinsealy-DrinanRush
iKinsealy-Drinan sits in K67, Rush in K56. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it’s actually measured at. The town ahead on a row is the one in green. Scores and percentages are charted against a true 0 to 100 scale; every other row is charted against the larger of the two towns, so the bars compare but don’t imply a ceiling.

Outlines are each town’s CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

Kinsealy-Drinan
Rush

Size

TOWN · census

Resident population at the 2022 CSO census, summed over the Small Areas that make up each town. Not scored: a bigger town isn’t a better one, it just explains why the counts below differ.

7,526
Population
10,875

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€412k
Median sale pricelower is better
€427k
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
€319k – €469k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€352k – €445k
130
Sales (24m)
422
+18.5%
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
0.0%
New-build share
58.8%

Schools, health & amenities

TOWN · counts

Facilities in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.

2 prim · 1 sec
Schools
3 prim · 1 sec
Rush leads
Kinsealy-Drinan · 3 schools (largest first)
Malahide & Portmarnock Secondary School Secondary
607 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Holywell Educate Together National School Primary
644 pupils · Multi Denominational
Gaelscoil An Duinninigh Primary
385 pupils · Catholic
Rush · 4 schools (largest first)
St Joseph's Secondary School Secondary
928 pupils · 50% to 3rd-level · CATHOLICDEIS
Rush Ns Primary
708 pupils · Catholic
Scoil Nais Caitriona Primary
278 pupils · Catholic
Gaelscoil Ros Eo Primary
159 pupils · Multi Denominational
9
Creches
12
Rush leads
1
GP practices
3
Rush leads
2
Pharmacies
4
Rush leads
0
Hospitals
0
21
Bus stops
27
Rush leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
5
Gyms & leisure
5
6
Parks & playgrounds
12
Rush leads
17
Sports pitches
21
Rush leads

Social life

TOWN · counts

Places to eat, drink and go out in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. The residents per venue row is the fairer read — raw counts just track town size, so a big town wins by being big.

1
Restaurants
4
Rush leads
1
Cafés
3
Rush leads
1
Pubs & bars
11
Rush leads
2
Takeaways
6
Rush leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
1
Rush leads
1,505
Residents per venuelower is better
435
Rush leads

Kinsealy-Drinan is a small town and Rush is a large town, so their national rankings aren’t like-for-like — each is ranked only against places of its own size. Compare them on the residents-per-venue row instead.

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

2
Supermarkets
3
Rush leads
1
Convenience shops
1
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
3
Rush leads
0
Banks
1
Rush leads
0
Post offices
1
Rush leads
0
Hairdressers
7
Rush leads
0
Dentists
2
Rush leads
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
2
Rush leads
1
EV charging
1
1
Library & community centre
2
Rush leads
1,505
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
473
Rush leads

Commute by car

TOWN · from centre

Drive time from the town centre to each city centre — typical off-peak, with an estimated weekday rush hour. OSRM road routing.

21m · ~40 rush
Dublinlower is better
32m · ~65 rush
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
126m · ~140 rush
Waterfordlower is better
138m · ~150 rush
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
148m · ~165 rush
Limericklower is better
159m · ~175 rush
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
153m · ~175 rush
Galwaylower is better
164m · ~190 rush
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
187m · ~210 rush
Corklower is better
199m · ~220 rush
Kinsealy-Drinan leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
5.1
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-0.9
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
Kinsealy-Drinan · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+5KinsaleyAffluent
+5KinsaleyAffluent
Rush · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-2RushBelow average
+0RushAbove average
50.0%
Third-level educated
35.6%
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
44.5%
Professional class
38.8%
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
6.8%
Unemploymentlower is better
8.8%
Kinsealy-Drinan leads
68.0%
Owner-occupier
74.1%
Rush leads
25.8%
Private rental
15.9%
4.4%
Social housing (LA)
7.4%

Liveability & safety

AREA · K67 / K56

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Kinsealy-DrinanK67, RushK56); safety & crime are the DMR North Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

66/100
Quality of Life
65/100
Kinsealy-Drinan leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (K67 / K56) from official data — Garda crime, CSO income & census, OPW flood, EPA water, and transport/healthcare/broadband coverage. Refreshed quarterly. The dashed line is each town’s overall score (that average) — dimensions to its right beat the average, to its left fall short. Two towns can share a score with a very different mix.

Kinsealy-DrinanRushOverall (avg)
Safety66596559
Affordability6665
Infrastructure7593
Family6771
Education5626
Environment7482
Economic6257
020406080100020406080100
#35
National ranklower is better
#21
Rush leads
#10
County ranklower is better
#2
Rush leads
59/100
Safety
59/100
61.8
Crime / 1,000lower is better
61.5
Rush leads

Affluence range

Pobal HP deprivation index, published per Electoral Division, so the spread shows the town’s poorest to richest ED. A town that is a single ED shows one mark, no range.

Kinsealy-Drinan Affluent+5.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kinsaley +5 (least affluent) → Kinsaley +5 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.
Rush Below average-0.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Rush -2 (least affluent) → Rush +0 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

TOWN
Prices, amenities and commute are exact and town-specific.

Prices come from individual PPR sales inside the town’s Small-Area boundary; schools, GPs, transport, gyms and parks are counted the same way; commute is routed from the town centre.

ED
Affluence, profile and tenure are Electoral-Division level.

Published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town’s EDs, with a range where the town spans several.

AREA
Liveability and safety are wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety and crime are the Garda division (DMR North), coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population growth isn’t shown: the 2016 and 2022 censuses don’t use the same Small Areas, and the areas that were re-cut are the ones that grew, so a like-for-like comparison understates growth badly. Rent and yield are still too sparse to show per town. Built from 56 CSO Small Areas.

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