Ballincollig, Co. Cork City scores 72/100 for quality of life, #14 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “established, plateauing”. The median home sells for €418,503 (most €330,000–€465,000), it scores 56/100 for safety (67 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 2,491 people live here. It's strongest on environment and family & community.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — affluent and stable, but growth has plateaued — don't overpay.
These seven scores and the 72/100 are measured across the P31 Eircode area, not Ballincollig alone — an area that takes in much of CORK CITY. 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 Ballincollig is #4 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the P31 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Cork North). Neither is measured for Ballincollig on its own.
2,491 people.
Population is for Ballincollig itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
Not ranked: a suburb’s boundary is a postal approximation, so its shops serve more people than are counted inside it.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Ballincollig, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Ballincollig, Co. Cork City, scores 72/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #14 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on environment and family & community.
Ballincollig scores 56/100 on safety, ~67.0 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Ballincollig over the last 24 months was €418,503, most between €330,000 and €465,000 (Property Price Register).
Ballincollig is rated "Established, plateauing" — unemployment fell 8% → 5%, in line with nationally, prices up 8.0%.
About 21% of homes sold in Ballincollig in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
35 planning applications were lodged within Ballincollig in the last 12 months, covering 555 residential units (119 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Ballincollig scores 83/100 for families and community.
Ballincollig scores 69/100 for schools and education, with 6 schools in the area.
Ballincollig is about 13 minutes by road from Cork.
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.