Carlanstown, Co. Meath scores 57/100 for quality of life, #72 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €314,840 (most €247,500–€343,612), it scores 74/100 for safety (40 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 718 people live here, up 4.5% since 2016. It's strongest on affordability and environment, weakest on transport & services.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
About average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
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 Carlanstown is #66 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
718 people, up 4.5% since 2016.
Vibrancy is the plain count of places to eat, drink and go out — restaurants, cafés, pubs, takeaways, nightclubs and cinemas inside the town boundary. Per head is the different question of whether a town is well served for its size.
Not ranked: under 2,000 residents, one pub swings the per-head figure too far to mean anything.
Carlanstown, Co. Meath, scores 57/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #72 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and environment.
Carlanstown scores 74/100 on safety, ~40.0 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Carlanstown over the last 24 months was €314,840, most between €247,500 and €343,612 (Property Price Register).
Carlanstown is rated "Declining" — unemployment rose 5% → 11% — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 0 points — behind the national rise.
About 30% of homes sold in Carlanstown in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
1 planning application was lodged within Carlanstown in the last 12 months (25 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Carlanstown scores 83/100 for families and community, and its population is growing (up 4.5% since 2016).
Carlanstown scores 42/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Carlanstown is about 59 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.