Harold's Cross, Co. Dublin scores 78/100 for quality of life, #2 of the 107 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “established, plateauing”. The median home sells for €580,000 (most €450,000–€900,000), it scores 56/100 for safety (55.5 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 1,406 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and local economy, weakest on affordability.
Updated October 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — affluent and stable, but growth has plateaued — don't overpay.
These seven scores and the 78/100 are measured across the D6W Eircode area, not Harold's Cross alone — an area that takes in much of Dublin. 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 Harold's Cross is #7 of 107 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the D6W Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (DMR South). Neither is measured for Harold's Cross on its own.
1,406 people.
Population is for Harold's Cross itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
Not ranked: a suburb’s boundary is a postal approximation, so its shops serve more people than are counted inside it.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Harold's Cross, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Harold's Cross, Co. Dublin, scores 78/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #2 of the 107 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and local economy.
The D6W Eircode area around Harold's Cross scores 56/100 on safety. Its Garda division, DMR South, records ~55.5 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for Harold's Cross on its own.
Harold's Cross is rated "affluent" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging +7.3 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range -7.8 to +12.7) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in Harold's Cross over the last 24 months was €580,000, with most sales between €450,000 and €900,000 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Harold's Cross over the last 24 months was €580,000, most between €450,000 and €900,000 (Property Price Register).
Harold's Cross is rated "Established, plateauing" — unemployment fell 9% → 6%, in line with nationally.
New builds are rare in Harold's Cross — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
17 planning applications were lodged within Harold's Cross in the last 12 months, covering 1 residential unit (96 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Harold's Cross scores 77/100 for families and community.
Harold's Cross scores 82/100 for schools and education, with 3 schools in the area.
Harold's Cross is about 9 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 October 2026.