Firhouse, Co. Dublin City scores 56/100 for quality of life, #77 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €490,000 (most €409,691–€560,000), it scores 48/100 for safety (79.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 2,369 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and affordability, weakest on local economy.
Updated September 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
About average today — improving in absolute terms, but falling behind the national trend.
These seven scores and the 56/100 are measured across the D24 Eircode area, not Firhouse alone — an area that takes in much of DUBLIN CITY. 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 Firhouse is #85 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the D24 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (DMR West). Neither is measured for Firhouse on its own.
2,369 people.
Population is for Firhouse 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 Firhouse, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Firhouse, Co. Dublin City, scores 56/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #77 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and affordability.
Firhouse scores 48/100 on safety, ~79.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Firhouse over the last 24 months was €490,000, with most sales between €409,691 and €560,000 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Firhouse over the last 24 months was €490,000, most between €409,691 and €560,000 (Property Price Register).
Firhouse is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment fell 10% → 8%, in line with nationally, third-level education up only 1 points — behind the national rise.
About 14% of homes sold in Firhouse in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
10 planning applications were lodged within Firhouse in the last 12 months, covering 3 residential units (85 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Firhouse scores 62/100 for families and community.
Firhouse scores 32/100 for schools and education, with 4 schools in the area.
Firhouse is about 19 minutes by road from Dublin.
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 September 2026.