Blackrock, Co. Dublin City scores 82/100 for quality of life, #1 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “established, plateauing”. The median home sells for €860,000 (most €600,000–€1,212,500), it scores 71/100 for safety (41.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 6,359 people live here. It's strongest on local economy and transport & services, weakest on affordability.
Updated August 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 82/100 are measured across the A94 Eircode area, not Blackrock alone — an area that takes in much of DUBLIN 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 #4 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the A94 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (DMR East). Neither is measured for Blackrock on its own.
6,359 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. Dublin City, scores 82/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #1 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on local economy and transport & services.
Blackrock scores 71/100 on safety, ~41.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Blackrock over the last 24 months was €860,000, most between €600,000 and €1,212,500 (Property Price Register).
Blackrock is rated "Established, plateauing" — unemployment fell just 1 points — lagging the national fall, recorded crime falling.
About 10% of homes sold in Blackrock in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
105 planning applications were lodged within Blackrock in the last 12 months, covering 15 residential units (619 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Blackrock scores 76/100 for families and community.
Blackrock scores 85/100 for schools and education, with 8 schools in the area.
Blackrock is about 17 minutes by road from Dublin, with 2 rail stops nearby.
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.