Blackrock, Co. Cork City scores 65/100 for quality of life, #38 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “on the up — emerging”. The median home sells for €425,000 (most €330,727–€557,500), it scores 61/100 for safety (58.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 664 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and affordability.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — but the fundamentals are turning, faster than the national trend.
These seven scores and the 65/100 are measured across the T12 Eircode area, not Blackrock 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 Blackrock is #35 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the T12 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Cork City). Neither is measured for Blackrock on its own.
664 people.
Population is for Blackrock 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 Blackrock, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Blackrock, Co. Cork City, scores 65/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #38 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and affordability.
Blackrock scores 61/100 on safety, ~58.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Blackrock over the last 24 months was €425,000, most between €330,727 and €557,500 (Property Price Register).
Blackrock is rated "On the up — emerging" — unemployment fell 14% → 9%, in line with nationally, recorded crime falling.
About 2% of homes sold in Blackrock in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
Blackrock scores 64/100 for families and community.
Blackrock scores 55/100 for schools and education, with 2 schools in the area.
Blackrock is about 9 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.