Town comparison · Piltown vs Slieverue

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Piltown or Slieverue?

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.

Piltown, Co. Kilkenny · E32 · 1,519 people | Slieverue, Co. Kilkenny · X91 · 458 people

Piltown is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Slieverue’s 1, with 2 level.

Piltown leads on
education levelsschools & amenitiessafetyaffordability
Slieverue leads on
access to its nearest city
202012

Piltown aheadlevel or not comparableSlieverue ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
PiltownSlieverue
iPiltown sits in E32, Slieverue in X91. 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.

Piltown
Slieverue

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.

1,519
Population
458

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€270k
Median sale pricelower is better
€323k
Piltown leads
€233k – €368k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€206k – €427k
52
Sales (24m)
14
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
0.0%
New-build share
N/A

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 · 0 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Piltown leads
Piltown · 2 schools (largest first)
S N Baile An Phiull Primary
270 pupils · Catholic
Owning National School Primary
102 pupils · Catholic
Slieverue · 1 schools (largest first)
Slieverue Mixed N S Primary
212 pupils · Catholic
3
Creches
2
Piltown leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
0
Piltown leads
0
Hospitals
0
2
Bus stops
4
Slieverue leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
5
Gyms & leisure
1
Piltown leads
2
Parks & playgrounds
0
Piltown leads
13
Sports pitches
2
Piltown 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.

0
Restaurants
0
0
Cafés
0
1
Pubs & bars
1
2
Takeaways
0
Piltown leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
506
Residents per venuelower is better
458
Slieverue 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.

0
Supermarkets
0
1
Convenience shops
1
1
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
Piltown leads
1
Banks
0
Piltown leads
1
Post offices
0
Piltown leads
1
Hairdressers
0
Piltown leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
1
Slieverue leads
1
EV charging
1
2
Library & community centre
1
Piltown leads
190
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
115
Slieverue 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.

23m · ~35 rush
Waterfordlower is better
9m · ~15 rush
Slieverue leads
100m · ~120 rush
Corklower is better
107m · ~130 rush
Piltown leads
102m · ~120 rush
Limericklower is better
121m · ~140 rush
Piltown leads
120m · ~155 rush
Dublinlower is better
119m · ~155 rush
Slieverue leads
173m · ~195 rush
Galwaylower is better
190m · ~215 rush
Piltown leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-5.2
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-6.2
Piltown leads
Piltown · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-8PilltownBelow average
-2PilltownBelow average
Slieverue · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-6RathpatrickBelow average
-6RathpatrickBelow average
32.8%
Third-level educated
27.0%
Piltown leads
32.5%
Professional class
35.2%
Slieverue leads
12.3%
Unemploymentlower is better
10.6%
Slieverue leads
71.6%
Owner-occupier
85.2%
Slieverue leads
13.2%
Private rental
6.4%
11.2%
Social housing (LA)
6.7%

Liveability & safety

AREA · E32 / X91

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (PiltownE32, SlieverueX91); safety & crime are the Tipperary Garda division.

60/100
Quality of Life
65/100
Slieverue leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (E32 / X91) 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.

PiltownSlieverueOverall (avg)
Safety60566551
Affordability100100
Infrastructure8894
Family7266
Education1432
Environment6482
Economic2631
020406080100020406080100
#81
National ranklower is better
#50
Slieverue leads
#6
County ranklower is better
#1
Slieverue leads
56/100
Safety
51/100
Piltown leads
64.9
Crime / 1,000lower is better
75.8
Piltown 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.

Piltown Below average-5.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Pilltown -8 (least affluent) → Pilltown -2 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Slieverue Below average-6.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Rathpatrick -6 (least affluent) → Rathpatrick -6 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below 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 (Tipperary), 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 8 CSO Small Areas.

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