Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon scores 56/100 for quality of life, #54 of the 107 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks. The median home sells for €155,000 (most €101,250–€221,000), it scores 71/100 for safety (37.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 223 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and family & community, weakest on local economy.
Updated October 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
These seven scores and the 56/100 are measured across the F52 Eircode area, not Ballinameen alone — an area that takes in much of Roscommon. 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 Ballinameen is #38 of 107 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the F52 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Roscommon/Longford). Neither is measured for Ballinameen on its own.
223 people.
Population is for Ballinameen 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 Ballinameen, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon, scores 56/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #54 of the 107 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and family & community.
The F52 Eircode area around Ballinameen scores 71/100 on safety. Its Garda division, Roscommon/Longford, records ~37.6 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for Ballinameen on its own.
Ballinameen is rated "below average" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging -4.4 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range -4.4 to -4.4) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in Ballinameen over the last 24 months was €155,000, with most sales between €101,250 and €221,000 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Ballinameen over the last 24 months was €155,000, most between €101,250 and €221,000 (Property Price Register).
Ballinameen scores 88/100 for families and community.
Ballinameen scores 48/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Ballinameen is about 98 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 October 2026.