iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area — on the routing-key area page they would read as one number. At town level they diverge. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
!Newcastle & Roscam are city suburbs — 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.
Newcastle
Roscam
Outlines are each town's CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.
TOWNS
Newcastle
Co. GALWAY CITY · in · pop — · 4 small areas
Roscam
Co. GALWAY CITY · in · pop — · 3 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€413k
€420k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€368k – €541k
€357k – €487k
Sales (24m)
88
60
Price momentum (YoY)
—
—
New-build share
0.0%
0.0%
Schools, health & amenities● TOWN · counts
Count of each facility whose location falls inside the town boundary. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.
▸Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
0 prim · 0 sec
Newcastle · 1 schools (largest first)
Galway Educate Together Ns Primary
381 pupils · Multi Denominational
Roscam · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
Creches
1
1
GP practices
0
0
Pharmacies
1
1
Hospitals
0
0
Bus stops
10
4
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
5
3
Parks & playgrounds
0
1
Sports pitches
3
1
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.
Galway
5m · ~10 rush
10m · ~20 rush
Limerick
77m · ~95 rush
74m · ~90 rush
Dublin
147m · ~180 rush
145m · ~180 rush
Cork
157m · ~180 rush
154m · ~175 rush
Waterford
190m · ~205 rush
188m · ~200 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
▸Affluence (Pobal HP)
-3.2
0.7
Newcastle · 3 EDs, poorest → richest
-8NewcastleDisadvantaged
0DanganBelow average
+4St. NicholasAffluent
Roscam · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-1BallybaanBelow average
+4St. NicholasAffluent
Third-level educated
45.8%
50.3%
Professional class
25.4%
27.7%
Unemployment
12.0%
10.2%
Owner-occupier
43.0%
35.3%
Private rental
40.9%
46.1%
Social housing (LA)
13.1%
14.1%
Liveability & safety● AREA · /
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Newcastle → , Roscam → ); safety & crime are the — Garda division.
Quality of Life
—
—
National rank
—
—
County rank
—
—
Safety
—
—
Crime / 1,000
—
—
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.
NewcastleBelow average-3.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Newcastle -8 (least affluent) → St. Nicholas +4 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
RoscamAbove average+0.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballybaan -1 (least affluent) → St. Nicholas +4 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
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. The figures the routing-key area page can't give you.
Pobal HP, third-level, class, unemployment, tenure are published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town's EDs — a range where the town spans several EDs (see the bar above).
● AREA
Liveability & safety — wider-area, not the town.
Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety & crime are the Garda division (—) — coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.
Population & growth are loaded for ~7 counties so far (not Leinster yet); rent & yield are too sparse per town. Tap Schools or Affluence to drill in. Built from 7 CSO Small Areas.
NewcastleRoscam
The verdict
Newcastle and Roscam are closely matched — each leads on 2 of the 7 dimensions, with 3 level. Newcastle is ahead on public transport and affordability; Roscam on affluence and education levels.
Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.
Homes for sale in Newcastle— the stronger town on the data