Ballyhale, Co. Kilkenny scores 62/100 for quality of life, #44 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €287,000 (most €260,000–€295,000), it scores 62/100 for safety (57.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 184 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and family & community, weakest on schools & education.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
About average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
These seven scores and the 62/100 are measured across the R95 Eircode area, not Ballyhale alone — an area that takes in much of KILKENNY. 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 Ballyhale is #35 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the R95 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Kilkenny/Carlow). Neither is measured for Ballyhale on its own.
184 people.
Population is for Ballyhale 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 Ballyhale, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Ballyhale, Co. Kilkenny, scores 62/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #44 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and family & community.
Ballyhale scores 62/100 on safety, ~57.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Ballyhale over the last 24 months was €287,000, most between €260,000 and €295,000 (Property Price Register).
Ballyhale is rated "Declining" — unemployment fell 9% → 6%, in line with nationally, third-level education up only 0 points — behind the national rise, recorded crime rising faster than the town is growing.
2 planning applications were lodged within Ballyhale in the last 12 months, covering 1 residential unit (7 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Ballyhale scores 78/100 for families and community.
Ballyhale scores 43/100 for schools and education, with 2 schools in the area.
Ballyhale is about 26 minutes by road from Waterford.
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.