Ballina, Co. North Tipperary scores 58/100 for quality of life, #69 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “prime & compounding”. The median home sells for €344,500 (most €252,375–€502,500), it scores 42/100 for safety (88.4 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 2,959 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
Above average today — affluent already, and still strengthening.
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 Ballina is #66 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
2,959 people.
125th most vibrant small town in Ireland, of 131 ranked.
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.
Ranked against small towns only. Tourist towns read high — the venues are real, but not all of them are there for the people who live here.
Ballina, Co. North Tipperary, scores 58/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #69 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services.
Ballina scores 42/100 on safety, ~88.4 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Ballina over the last 24 months was €344,500, most between €252,375 and €502,500 (Property Price Register).
Ballina is rated "Prime & compounding" — unemployment fell 8% → 5%, in line with nationally, recorded crime falling.
About 3% of homes sold in Ballina in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
25 planning applications were lodged within Ballina in the last 12 months, covering 9 residential units (199 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Ballina scores 72/100 for families and community.
Ballina scores 46/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Ballina is about 27 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 August 2026.