Avoca, Co. Wicklow scores 60/100 for quality of life, #54 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €422,500 (most €307,500–€517,500), it scores 70/100 for safety (43.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 422 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services, weakest on local economy.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
These seven scores and the 60/100 are measured across the Y14 Eircode area, not Avoca alone — an area that takes in much of WICKLOW. 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 Avoca is #50 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the Y14 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Wicklow). Neither is measured for Avoca on its own.
422 people.
Population is for Avoca 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 Avoca, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Avoca, Co. Wicklow, scores 60/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #54 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services.
Avoca scores 70/100 on safety, ~43.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Avoca over the last 24 months was €422,500, most between €307,500 and €517,500 (Property Price Register).
Avoca is rated "Declining" — unemployment fell just 0 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 3 points — behind the national rise.
New builds are rare in Avoca — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
1 planning application was lodged within Avoca in the last 12 months (8 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Avoca scores 75/100 for families and community.
Avoca scores 37/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Avoca is about 64 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.