Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin scores 74/100 for quality of life, #8 of the 107 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “established, plateauing”. The median home sells for €650,000 (most €492,500–€865,000), it scores 69/100 for safety (41.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 3,061 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and schools & education, weakest on affordability.
Updated October 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — affluent and stable, but growth has plateaued — don't overpay.
These seven scores and the 74/100 are measured across the A96 Eircode area, not Dun Laoghaire 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 Dun Laoghaire is #22 of 107 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the A96 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (DMR East). Neither is measured for Dun Laoghaire on its own.
3,061 people.
Population is for Dun Laoghaire 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 Dun Laoghaire, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, scores 74/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #8 of the 107 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and schools & education.
Dun Laoghaire scores 71/100 on safety, ~41.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Dun Laoghaire over the last 24 months was €650,000, with most sales between €492,500 and €865,000 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Dun Laoghaire over the last 24 months was €650,000, most between €492,500 and €865,000 (Property Price Register).
Dun Laoghaire is rated "Established, plateauing" — unemployment fell just 1 points — lagging the national fall, recorded crime falling.
About 2% of homes sold in Dun Laoghaire in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
62 planning applications were lodged within Dun Laoghaire in the last 12 months, covering 65 residential units (382 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Dun Laoghaire scores 63/100 for families and community.
Dun Laoghaire scores 76/100 for schools and education, with 4 schools in the area.
Dun Laoghaire is about 21 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 October 2026.