Cabinteely, Co. Dublin City scores 77/100 for quality of life, #7 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “established, plateauing”. The median home sells for €649,789 (most €420,000–€860,000), it scores 60/100 for safety (60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 1,976 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and local economy, 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.
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 Cabinteely is #10 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
1,976 people.
Vibrancy is the plain count of places to eat, drink and go out — restaurants, cafés, pubs, takeaways, nightclubs and cinemas in and around the town. Per head is the different question of whether a town is well served for its size.
Not ranked: a suburb’s boundary is a postal approximation, so its shops serve far more people than are counted inside it.
Cabinteely, Co. Dublin City, scores 77/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #7 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and local economy.
Cabinteely scores 60/100 on safety, ~60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Cabinteely over the last 24 months was €649,789, most between €420,000 and €860,000 (Property Price Register).
Cabinteely is rated "Established, plateauing" — unemployment fell just 0 points — lagging the national fall, recorded crime falling.
About 10% of homes sold in Cabinteely in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
54 planning applications were lodged within Cabinteely in the last 12 months (301 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Cabinteely scores 63/100 for families and community.
Cabinteely scores 70/100 for schools and education.
Cabinteely is about 20 minutes by road from Dublin.
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.