Adare, Co. Limerick scores 57/100 for quality of life, #45 of the 107 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “prime & compounding”. The median home sells for €534,075 (most €371,145–€655,000), it scores 53/100 for safety (60.4 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 1,047 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services, weakest on local economy.
Updated October 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — affluent already, and still strengthening.
These seven scores and the 57/100 are measured across the V94 Eircode area, not Adare alone — an area that takes in much of Limerick. A strong or weak pocket inside it can read very differently from the area average.
Ranked on quality of life alone — cost of living excluded, so the genuinely best areas rank top even though they cost more. Factor in price and Adare is #38 of 107 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the V94 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Limerick). Neither is measured for Adare on its own.
1,047 people.
Population is for Adare itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
Not ranked: under 2,000 residents, one pub swings the per-head figure too far.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Adare, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Adare, Co. Limerick, scores 57/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #45 of the 107 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services.
The V94 Eircode area around Adare scores 53/100 on safety. Its Garda division, Limerick, records ~60.4 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for Adare on its own.
Adare is rated "affluent" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging +4.2 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range +2.6 to +5.8) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in Adare over the last 24 months was €534,075, with most sales between €371,145 and €655,000 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Adare over the last 24 months was €534,075, most between €371,145 and €655,000 (Property Price Register).
Adare is rated "Prime & compounding" — unemployment fell 8% → 4%, in line with nationally, third-level education up 9 points — faster than nationally.
About 24% of homes sold in Adare in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
23 planning applications were lodged within Adare in the last 12 months, covering 3 residential units (100 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Adare scores 71/100 for families and community.
Adare scores 44/100 for schools and education, with 3 schools in the area.
Adare is about 18 minutes by road from Limerick.
Sale prices from the Property Price Register (rolling 24 months). Quality of Life averages seven equal-weighted dimensions from 40+ metrics across 13 public datasets (CSO census + SAPS, Garda crime, SEAI, EPA, DES schools, GTFS). Population is CSO Census 2022; the “on the up” trajectory compares 2016→2022. Figures refresh daily · an area assessment, not advice on a specific property. Updated October 2026.