Glen, Co. Limerick scores 58/100 for quality of life, #69 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €292,500 (most €188,750–€416,500), it scores 42/100 for safety (88.4 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 386 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services, weakest on local economy.
Updated September 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
These seven scores and the 58/100 are measured across the V94 Eircode area, not Glen alone — an area that takes in much of LIMERICK. 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 Glen is #66 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the V94 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Limerick). Neither is measured for Glen on its own.
386 people.
Population is for Glen 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 Glen, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Glen, Co. Limerick, scores 58/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #69 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services.
Glen scores 42/100 on safety, ~88.4 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Glen over the last 24 months was €292,500, with most sales between €188,750 and €416,500 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Glen over the last 24 months was €292,500, most between €188,750 and €416,500 (Property Price Register).
Glen is rated "Declining" — unemployment rose 8% → 15% — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 0 points — behind the national rise.
3 planning applications were lodged within Glen in the last 12 months (20 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Glen scores 72/100 for families and community.
Glen scores 46/100 for schools and education.
Glen is about 15 minutes by road from Limerick.
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.