Ballybrittas, Co. Laois scores 53/100 for quality of life, #91 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €430,500 (most €405,250–€500,000), it scores 40/100 for safety (90.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 435 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and family & community, weakest on local economy.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — improving in absolute terms, but falling behind the national trend.
These seven scores and the 53/100 are measured across the R32 Eircode area, not Ballybrittas alone — an area that takes in much of LAOIS. 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 Ballybrittas is #85 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the R32 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Laois/Offaly). Neither is measured for Ballybrittas on its own.
435 people.
Population is for Ballybrittas 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 Ballybrittas, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Ballybrittas, Co. Laois, scores 53/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #91 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and family & community.
Ballybrittas scores 40/100 on safety, ~90.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Ballybrittas over the last 24 months was €430,500, most between €405,250 and €500,000 (Property Price Register).
Ballybrittas is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment fell just 1 points — lagging the national fall.
5 planning applications were lodged within Ballybrittas in the last 12 months, covering 3 residential units (22 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Ballybrittas scores 78/100 for families and community.
Ballybrittas scores 44/100 for schools and education.
Ballybrittas is about 60 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.