Town comparison · Knocklong vs Mungret

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Knocklong or Mungret?

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.

Knocklong, Co. Limerick · V35 · 229 people | Mungret, Co. Limerick City · V94 · 665 people

Mungret is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Knocklong’s 2, with 2 level.

Knocklong leads on
affluenceaffordability
Mungret leads on
education levelsschools & amenitiesaccess to its nearest city
162115

Knocklong aheadlevel or not comparableMungret ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
KnocklongMungret
iKnocklong sits in V35, Mungret in V94. 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.
!Mungret is a city suburb — its boundary follows the postal area (the Small Areas whose addresses carry the name), not an official settlement line, so it can run broader than the local core and the figures cover that wider postal patch.

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

Knocklong
Mungret

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.

229
Population
665

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€275k
Median sale pricelower is better
€394k
Knocklong leads
€230k – €395k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€357k – €427k
27
Sales (24m)
137
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
-2.1%
N/A
New-build share
71.5%

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.

1 prim · 0 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Knocklong · 1 schools (largest first)
Scoil Cnoc Loinge B Primary
72 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Mungret · 1 schools (largest first)
Gaelscoil An Raithin Primary
394 pupils · Catholic
1
Creches
3
Mungret leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
0
0
Hospitals
0
2
Bus stops
5
Mungret leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
2
Mungret leads
0
Parks & playgrounds
1
Mungret leads
2
Sports pitches
13
Mungret 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
0
Knocklong leads
0
Cafés
1
Mungret leads
0
Pubs & bars
1
Mungret leads
1
Takeaways
0
Knocklong leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
115
Residents per venuelower is better
333
Knocklong leads

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

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

1
Supermarkets
0
Knocklong leads
0
Convenience shops
0
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
1
Banks
0
Knocklong leads
1
Post offices
0
Knocklong leads
1
Hairdressers
0
Knocklong leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
1
Filling stations
0
Knocklong leads
0
EV charging
0
0
Library & community centre
1
Mungret leads
46
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
665
Knocklong 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.

37m · ~55 rush
Limericklower is better
4m · ~5 rush
Mungret leads
67m · ~90 rush
Corklower is better
86m · ~110 rush
Knocklong leads
108m · ~130 rush
Galwaylower is better
77m · ~100 rush
Mungret leads
103m · ~115 rush
Waterfordlower is better
121m · ~135 rush
Knocklong leads
158m · ~195 rush
Dublinlower is better
141m · ~175 rush
Mungret leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-6.5
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-8.3
Knocklong leads
Knocklong · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-11KnocklongDisadvantaged
-2KnocklongBelow average
Mungret · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
+2BallycumminAbove average
+5BallycumminAffluent
26.3%
Third-level educated
33.1%
Mungret leads
29.6%
Professional class
29.3%
Knocklong leads
10.8%
Unemploymentlower is better
15.1%
Knocklong leads
81.3%
Owner-occupier
64.5%
Knocklong leads
7.4%
Private rental
23.2%
7.0%
Social housing (LA)
8.5%

Liveability & safety

AREA · V35 / V94

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Knocklong → V35, Mungret → V94); safety & crime are the Limerick Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

57/100
Quality of Life
62/100
Mungret leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (V35 / V94) 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.

KnocklongMungretOverall (avg)
Safety57426242
Affordability10089
Infrastructure2683
Family8572
Education3246
Environment6562
Economic5040
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#93
National ranklower is better
#66
Mungret leads
#3
County ranklower is better
#1
Mungret leads
42/100
Safety
42/100
88.4
Crime / 1,000
88.4

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.

Knocklong Below average-6.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Knocklong -11 (least affluent) → Knocklong -2 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Mungret Disadvantaged-8.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Abbey D -20 (least affluent) → Ballycummin +5 (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 (Limerick), 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 3 CSO Small Areas.

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