Glanmire, Co. Cork City scores 70/100 for quality of life, #19 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €376,500 (most €319,130–€451,389), it scores 61/100 for safety (58.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 2,473 people live here. It's strongest on family & community and environment.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
About average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
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 Glanmire is #10 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
2,473 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.
Glanmire, Co. Cork City, scores 70/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #19 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on family & community and environment.
Glanmire scores 61/100 on safety, ~58.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Glanmire over the last 24 months was €376,500, most between €319,130 and €451,389 (Property Price Register).
Glanmire is rated "Declining" — unemployment fell just 2 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 1 points — behind the national rise, prices up 130.4%, recorded crime rising faster than the town is growing.
About 31% of homes sold in Glanmire in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
5 planning applications were lodged within Glanmire in the last 12 months, covering 67 residential units (143 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Glanmire scores 86/100 for families and community.
Glanmire scores 64/100 for schools and education, with 9 schools in the area.
Glanmire is about 11 minutes by road from Cork, with 3 rail stops nearby.
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.