Booterstown, Co. Dublin scores 80/100 for quality of life, #1 of the 107 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €752,500 (most €500,000–€1,077,035), it scores 69/100 for safety (37.1 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 886 people live here. It's strongest on local economy and transport & services, weakest on affordability.
Updated October 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 80/100 are measured across the A94 Eircode area, not Booterstown alone — an area that takes in much of Dublin. 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 Booterstown is #2 of 107 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 Booterstown on its own.
886 people.
Population is for Booterstown 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 Booterstown, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Booterstown, Co. Dublin, scores 80/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #1 of the 107 areas we rank. It's strongest on local economy and transport & services.
The A94 Eircode area around Booterstown scores 69/100 on safety. Its Garda division, DMR East, records ~37.1 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for Booterstown on its own.
Booterstown is rated "affluent" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging +11.1 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range +9.0 to +16.8) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in Booterstown over the last 24 months was €752,500, with most sales between €500,000 and €1,077,035 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Booterstown over the last 24 months was €752,500, most between €500,000 and €1,077,035 (Property Price Register).
Booterstown is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment rose 5% → 5% — lagging the national fall.
New builds are rare in Booterstown — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
30 planning applications were lodged within Booterstown in the last 12 months (244 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Booterstown scores 73/100 for families and community.
Booterstown scores 85/100 for schools and education, with 6 schools in the area.
Booterstown is about 13 minutes by road from Dublin, with 4 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 October 2026.