Kill, Co. Waterford scores 60/100 for quality of life, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €325,000 (most €242,500–€346,500), it scores 55/100 for safety (58 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 246 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and environment, weakest on transport & services.
Updated November 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 60/100 are measured across the X42 Eircode area, not Kill alone — an area that takes in much of Waterford. A strong or weak pocket inside it can read very differently from the area average.
The score is for the X42 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Waterford). Neither is measured for Kill on its own.
246 people.
Population is for Kill 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 Kill, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Kill, Co. Waterford, scores 60/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded). It's strongest on affordability and environment.
The X42 Eircode area around Kill scores 55/100 on safety. Its Garda division, Waterford, records ~58.0 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for Kill on its own.
Kill is rated "disadvantaged" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging -10.3 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range -11.2 to -9.5) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in Kill over the last 24 months was €325,000, with most sales between €242,500 and €346,500 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Kill over the last 24 months was €325,000, most between €242,500 and €346,500 (Property Price Register).
Kill is rated "Declining" — unemployment fell just 0 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 1 points — behind the national rise.
1 planning application was lodged within Kill in the last 12 months (8 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Kill scores 79/100 for families and community.
Kill scores 51/100 for schools and education.
Kill is about 24 minutes by road from Waterford.
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 November 2026.