Belgooly, Co. Cork scores 72/100 for quality of life, #9 of the 107 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “established, plateauing”. The median home sells for €560,000 (most €471,250–€677,750), it scores 82/100 for safety (23.1 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 823 people live here. It's strongest on environment and family & community.
Updated October 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 P17 Eircode area, not Belgooly alone — an area that takes in much of Cork. 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 Belgooly is #4 of 107 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the P17 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Cork West). Neither is measured for Belgooly on its own.
823 people.
Population is for Belgooly 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 Belgooly, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Belgooly, Co. Cork, scores 72/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #9 of the 107 areas we rank. It's strongest on environment and family & community.
The P17 Eircode area around Belgooly scores 82/100 on safety. Its Garda division, Cork West, records ~23.1 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for Belgooly on its own.
Belgooly is rated "affluent" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging +6.7 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range +4.6 to +8.8) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in Belgooly over the last 24 months was €560,000, with most sales between €471,250 and €677,750 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Belgooly over the last 24 months was €560,000, most between €471,250 and €677,750 (Property Price Register).
Belgooly is rated "Established, plateauing" — unemployment fell 6% → 3%, in line with nationally.
Belgooly scores 82/100 for families and community.
Belgooly scores 70/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Belgooly is about 23 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 October 2026.