Glenville, Co. Cork scores 63/100 for quality of life, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €300,000 (most €158,120–€350,000), it scores 58/100 for safety (52.9 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 501 people live here. It's strongest on family & community and local economy, weakest on transport & services.
Updated October 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — improving in absolute terms, but falling behind the national trend.
These seven scores and the 63/100 are measured across the T56 Eircode area, not Glenville alone — an area that takes in much of Cork. A strong or weak pocket inside it can read very differently from the area average.
The score is for the T56 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Cork City). Neither is measured for Glenville on its own.
501 people.
Population is for Glenville 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 Glenville, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Glenville, Co. Cork, scores 63/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded). It's strongest on family & community and local economy.
The T56 Eircode area around Glenville scores 58/100 on safety. Its Garda division, Cork City, records ~52.9 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for Glenville on its own.
Glenville is rated "affluent" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging +5.0 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range +3.8 to +6.2) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in Glenville over the last 24 months was €300,000, with most sales between €158,120 and €350,000 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Glenville over the last 24 months was €300,000, most between €158,120 and €350,000 (Property Price Register).
Glenville is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment fell just 1 points — lagging the national fall.
1 planning application was lodged within Glenville in the last 12 months (15 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Glenville scores 92/100 for families and community.
Glenville scores 57/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Glenville is about 27 minutes by road from Cork.
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 October 2026.