Kilkelly, Co. Mayo scores 67/100 for quality of life, and its fundamentals are rated “on the up — emerging”. The median home sells for €142,500 (most €70,000–€181,250), it scores 82/100 for safety (26.9 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 429 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services, weakest on schools & education.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — but the fundamentals are turning, faster than the national trend.
These seven scores and the 67/100 are measured across the F35 Eircode area, not Kilkelly alone — an area that takes in much of MAYO. A strong or weak pocket inside it can read very differently from the area average.
The score is for the F35 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Mayo). Neither is measured for Kilkelly on its own.
429 people.
Population is for Kilkelly 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 Kilkelly, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Kilkelly, Co. Mayo, scores 67/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded). It's strongest on affordability and transport & services.
Kilkelly scores 82/100 on safety, ~26.9 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Kilkelly over the last 24 months was €142,500, most between €70,000 and €181,250 (Property Price Register).
Kilkelly is rated "On the up — emerging" — unemployment fell 17% → 12% — faster than nationally, third-level education up 10 points — faster than nationally, recorded crime falling.
New builds are rare in Kilkelly — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
2 planning applications were lodged within Kilkelly in the last 12 months (9 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Kilkelly scores 84/100 for families and community.
Kilkelly scores 14/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Kilkelly is about 71 minutes by road from Galway.
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.