Killarney, Co. Kerry scores 67/100 for quality of life, #26 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €350,000 (most €275,000–€472,000), it scores 72/100 for safety (42.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 14,040 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
About average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
These seven scores and the 67/100 are measured across the V93 Eircode area, not Killarney alone — an area that takes in much of KERRY. 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 Killarney is #18 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the V93 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Kerry). Neither is measured for Killarney on its own.
14,040 people.
Population is for Killarney itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
12th most vibrant large town in Ireland, of 65 ranked.
Ranked against large towns only; tourist towns read high.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Killarney, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Killarney, Co. Kerry, scores 67/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #26 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services.
Killarney scores 72/100 on safety, ~42.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Killarney over the last 24 months was €350,000, most between €275,000 and €472,000 (Property Price Register).
Killarney is rated "Declining" — unemployment rose 9% → 9% — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 4 points — behind the national rise, prices up 20.6%.
About 13% of homes sold in Killarney in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
104 planning applications were lodged within Killarney in the last 12 months, covering 530 residential units (801 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Killarney scores 78/100 for families and community.
Killarney scores 41/100 for schools and education, with 10 schools in the area.
Killarney is about 72 minutes by road from Cork, with 1 rail stop nearby.
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.