Elphin, Co. Roscommon scores 54/100 for quality of life, #86 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “on the up — emerging”. The median home sells for €140,000 (most €117,250–€176,500), it scores 77/100 for safety (35 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 533 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and family & community, weakest on schools & education.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — but the fundamentals are turning, faster than 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 Elphin is #81 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
533 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.
Elphin, Co. Roscommon, scores 54/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #86 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and family & community.
Elphin scores 77/100 on safety, ~35.0 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Elphin over the last 24 months was €140,000, most between €117,250 and €176,500 (Property Price Register).
Elphin is rated "On the up — emerging" — unemployment fell 20% → 12% — faster than nationally, third-level education up only 3 points — behind the national rise, recorded crime falling.
New builds are rare in Elphin — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
1 planning application was lodged within Elphin in the last 12 months (20 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Elphin scores 88/100 for families and community.
Elphin scores 18/100 for schools and education, with 2 schools in the area.
Elphin is about 99 minutes by road from Galway.
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.