Foxrock, Co. Dublin City scores 77/100 for quality of life, #7 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €930,000 (most €738,750–€1,322,500), it scores 60/100 for safety (60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 2,142 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and local economy, 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 Foxrock is #10 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
2,142 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.
Foxrock, Co. Dublin City, scores 77/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #7 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and local economy.
Foxrock scores 60/100 on safety, ~60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Foxrock over the last 24 months was €930,000, most between €738,750 and €1,322,500 (Property Price Register).
Foxrock is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment fell just 1 points — lagging the national fall.
About 23% of homes sold in Foxrock in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
39 planning applications were lodged within Foxrock in the last 12 months, covering 11 residential units (195 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Foxrock scores 63/100 for families and community.
Foxrock scores 70/100 for schools and education, with 2 schools in the area.
Foxrock is about 20 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 August 2026.