Crookstown, Co. Cork scores 81/100 for quality of life, and its fundamentals are rated “prime & compounding”. The median home sells for €350,771 (most €300,473–€413,750), it scores 89/100 for safety (17.3 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 183 people live here. It's strongest on safety and transport & services.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — affluent already, and still strengthening.
These seven scores and the 81/100 are measured across the P14 Eircode area, not Crookstown alone — an area that takes in much of CORK. A strong or weak pocket inside it can read very differently from the area average.
The score is for the P14 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Cork West). Neither is measured for Crookstown on its own.
183 people.
Population is for Crookstown itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
Not ranked: under 2,000 residents, one pub swings the per-head figure too far.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Crookstown, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Crookstown, Co. Cork, scores 81/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded). It's strongest on safety and transport & services.
Crookstown scores 89/100 on safety, ~17.3 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Crookstown over the last 24 months was €350,771, with most sales between €300,473 and €413,750 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Crookstown over the last 24 months was €350,771, most between €300,473 and €413,750 (Property Price Register).
Crookstown is rated "Prime & compounding" — unemployment fell 7% → 4%, in line with nationally, third-level education up 8 points — faster than nationally, recorded crime falling.
2 planning applications were lodged within Crookstown in the last 12 months (12 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Crookstown scores 85/100 for families and community.
Crookstown scores 57/100 for schools and education.
Crookstown is about 26 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.