Freshford, Co. Kilkenny scores 62/100 for quality of life, #44 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “steady — moves with the market”. The median home sells for €328,500 (most €183,000–€428,500), it scores 62/100 for safety (57.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 410 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and family & community, weakest on schools & education.
Updated September 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — tracking the national trend — no strong local tailwind or headwind.
These seven scores and the 62/100 are measured across the R95 Eircode area, not Freshford alone — an area that takes in much of KILKENNY. 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 Freshford is #35 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the R95 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Kilkenny/Carlow). Neither is measured for Freshford on its own.
410 people.
Population is for Freshford itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
Not ranked: under 2,000 residents, one pub swings the per-head figure too far.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Freshford, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Freshford, Co. Kilkenny, scores 62/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #44 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and family & community.
Freshford scores 62/100 on safety, ~57.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Freshford over the last 24 months was €328,500, with most sales between €183,000 and €428,500 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Freshford over the last 24 months was €328,500, most between €183,000 and €428,500 (Property Price Register).
Freshford is rated "Steady — moves with the market" — unemployment fell 14% → 10%, in line with nationally.
New builds are rare in Freshford — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
1 planning application was lodged within Freshford in the last 12 months (17 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Freshford scores 78/100 for families and community.
Freshford scores 43/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Freshford is about 56 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 September 2026.