Ballsbridge, Co. Dublin scores 74/100 for quality of life, #12 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €801,250 (most €565,000–€1,346,250), it scores 60/100 for safety (60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 33,242 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and local economy, weakest on affordability.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
These seven scores and the 74/100 are measured across the D04 Eircode area, not Ballsbridge alone — an area that takes in much of Dublin. 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 Ballsbridge is #50 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the D04 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (DMR South). Neither is measured for Ballsbridge on its own.
33,242 people.
Population is for Ballsbridge itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
Counts are venues in and around the town. Per head asks whether it is well served for its size.
Not ranked: a suburb’s boundary is a postal approximation, so its shops serve far more people than are counted inside it.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Ballsbridge, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Ballsbridge, Co. Dublin, scores 74/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #12 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and local economy.
Ballsbridge scores 60/100 on safety, ~60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Ballsbridge over the last 24 months was €801,250, most between €565,000 and €1,346,250 (Property Price Register).
Ballsbridge is rated "Declining" — unemployment fell just 0 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 4 points — behind the national rise, prices up 28.0%.
About 5% of homes sold in Ballsbridge in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
369 planning applications were lodged within Ballsbridge in the last 12 months, covering 66 residential units (2,671 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Ballsbridge scores 38/100 for families and community.
Ballsbridge scores 78/100 for schools and education, with 6 schools in the area.
Ballsbridge is about 8 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.