Dalkey, Co. Dublin City scores 75/100 for quality of life, #10 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €995,000 (most €726,375–€1,348,403), it scores 71/100 for safety (41.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 2,895 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and environment, weakest on affordability.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — improving in absolute terms, but falling behind the national trend.
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 Dalkey is #35 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
2,895 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.
Dalkey, Co. Dublin City, scores 75/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #10 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and environment.
Dalkey scores 71/100 on safety, ~41.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Dalkey over the last 24 months was €995,000, most between €726,375 and €1,348,403 (Property Price Register).
Dalkey is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment fell just 1 points — lagging the national fall.
About 21% of homes sold in Dalkey in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
77 planning applications were lodged within Dalkey in the last 12 months, covering 1 residential unit (505 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Dalkey scores 62/100 for families and community.
Dalkey scores 78/100 for schools and education, with 5 schools in the area.
Dalkey is about 25 minutes by road from Dublin, with 1 rail stop 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.