Hospital, Co. Limerick scores 50/100 for quality of life, #81 of the 107 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “steady — moves with the market”. The median home sells for €285,000 (most €151,500–€382,500), it scores 53/100 for safety (60.4 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 348 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and family & community, weakest on transport & services.
Updated October 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 50/100 are measured across the V35 Eircode area, not Hospital 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 Hospital is #71 of 107 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the V35 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Limerick). Neither is measured for Hospital on its own.
348 people.
Population is for Hospital 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 Hospital, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Hospital, Co. Limerick, scores 50/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #81 of the 107 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and family & community.
The V35 Eircode area around Hospital scores 53/100 on safety. Its Garda division, Limerick, records ~60.4 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for Hospital on its own.
Hospital is rated "below average" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging -6.9 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range -8.1 to -5.7) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in Hospital over the last 24 months was €285,000, with most sales between €151,500 and €382,500 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Hospital over the last 24 months was €285,000, most between €151,500 and €382,500 (Property Price Register).
Hospital is rated "Steady — moves with the market" — unemployment fell 13% → 8%, in line with nationally.
New builds are rare in Hospital — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
18 planning applications were lodged within Hospital in the last 12 months, covering 3 residential units (45 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Hospital scores 85/100 for families and community.
Hospital scores 30/100 for schools and education, with 2 schools in the area.
Hospital is about 32 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 October 2026.