Béal An Mhuirthead, Co. Mayo scores 62/100 for quality of life, #45 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “on the up — emerging”. The median home sells for €330,000 (most €225,000–€330,000), it scores 82/100 for safety (26.9 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 799 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services, weakest on schools & education.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — but the fundamentals are turning, faster than 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 Béal An Mhuirthead is #28 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
799 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.
Béal An Mhuirthead, Co. Mayo, scores 62/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #45 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services.
Béal An Mhuirthead scores 82/100 on safety, ~26.9 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Béal An Mhuirthead over the last 24 months was €330,000, most between €225,000 and €330,000 (Property Price Register).
Béal An Mhuirthead is rated "On the up — emerging" — unemployment fell 16% → 10% — faster than nationally.
11 planning applications were lodged within Béal An Mhuirthead in the last 12 months (54 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Béal An Mhuirthead scores 83/100 for families and community.
Béal An Mhuirthead scores 16/100 for schools and education, with 4 schools in the area.
Béal An Mhuirthead is about 146 minutes by road from Galway.
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.