An Rinn, Co. Waterford scores 49/100 for quality of life, #85 of the 107 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “steady — moves with the market”. The median home sells for €451,250 (most €278,125–€602,250), it scores 55/100 for safety (58 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 380 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and environment, weakest on local economy.
Updated October 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
About average today — tracking the national trend — no strong local tailwind or headwind.
These seven scores and the 49/100 are measured across the X35 Eircode area, not An Rinn alone — an area that takes in much of Waterford. 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 An Rinn is #86 of 107 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the X35 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Waterford). Neither is measured for An Rinn on its own.
380 people.
Population is for An Rinn 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 An Rinn, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
An Rinn, Co. Waterford, scores 49/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #85 of the 107 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and environment.
The X35 Eircode area around An Rinn scores 55/100 on safety. Its Garda division, Waterford, records ~58.0 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for An Rinn on its own.
An Rinn is rated "above average" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging +1.5 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range -1.3 to +4.3) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in An Rinn over the last 24 months was €451,250, with most sales between €278,125 and €602,250 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in An Rinn over the last 24 months was €451,250, most between €278,125 and €602,250 (Property Price Register).
An Rinn is rated "Steady — moves with the market" — unemployment fell 10% → 5%, in line with nationally.
5 planning applications were lodged within An Rinn in the last 12 months, covering 3 residential units (55 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
An Rinn scores 72/100 for families and community.
An Rinn scores 28/100 for schools and education, with 3 schools in the area.
An Rinn is about 56 minutes by road from Waterford.
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.