Ashford, Co. Wicklow scores 60/100 for quality of life, #58 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “on the up”. The median home sells for €577,500 (most €443,750–€806,250), it scores 70/100 for safety (43.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 1,892 people live here. It's strongest on environment and family & community, weakest on schools & education.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
About average today — and pulling ahead of the national trend.
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 Ashford is #77 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
1,892 people.
Vibrancy is the plain count of places to eat, drink and go out — restaurants, cafés, pubs, takeaways, nightclubs and cinemas in and around the town. Per head is the different question of whether a town is well served for its size.
Not ranked: under 2,000 residents, one pub swings the per-head figure too far to mean anything.
Ashford, Co. Wicklow, scores 60/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #58 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on environment and family & community.
Ashford scores 70/100 on safety, ~43.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Ashford over the last 24 months was €577,500, most between €443,750 and €806,250 (Property Price Register).
Ashford is rated "On the up" — unemployment fell 12% → 8%, in line with nationally, recorded crime falling.
About 2% of homes sold in Ashford in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
33 planning applications were lodged within Ashford in the last 12 months, covering 199 residential units (172 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Ashford scores 77/100 for families and community.
Ashford scores 35/100 for schools and education, with 2 schools in the area.
Ashford is about 47 minutes by road from Dublin.
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 August 2026.