Dunmore East, Co. Waterford scores 59/100 for quality of life, #59 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €373,419 (most €343,941–€471,889), it scores 51/100 for safety (75.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 1,731 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services, weakest on local economy.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below 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 Dunmore East is #50 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
1,731 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: under 2,000 residents, one pub swings the per-head figure too far to mean anything.
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, scores 59/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #59 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services.
Dunmore East scores 51/100 on safety, ~75.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Dunmore East over the last 24 months was €373,419, most between €343,941 and €471,889 (Property Price Register).
Dunmore East is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment fell just 2 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 3 points — behind the national rise, recorded crime falling.
About 44% of homes sold in Dunmore East in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
37 planning applications were lodged within Dunmore East in the last 12 months, covering 198 residential units (238 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Dunmore East scores 66/100 for families and community.
Dunmore East scores 32/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Dunmore East is about 21 minutes by road from Waterford.
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.