Killester, Co. Dublin City scores 64/100 for quality of life, #41 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “established, plateauing”. The median home sells for €574,000 (most €470,250–€710,000), it scores 59/100 for safety (61.5 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 1,356 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and family & community, weakest on schools & education.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — affluent and stable, but growth has plateaued — don't overpay.
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 Killester is #66 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
1,356 people.
Vibrancy is the plain count of places to eat, drink and go out — restaurants, cafés, pubs, takeaways, nightclubs and cinemas in and around the town. Per head is the different question of whether a town is well served for its size.
Not ranked: a suburb’s boundary is a postal approximation, so its shops serve far more people than are counted inside it.
Killester, Co. Dublin City, scores 64/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #41 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and family & community.
Killester scores 59/100 on safety, ~61.5 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Killester over the last 24 months was €574,000, most between €470,250 and €710,000 (Property Price Register).
Killester is rated "Established, plateauing" — unemployment fell just 1 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up 8 points — faster than nationally.
About 1% of homes sold in Killester in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
44 planning applications were lodged within Killester in the last 12 months (297 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Killester scores 77/100 for families and community.
Killester scores 26/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Killester is about 9 minutes by road from Dublin, 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.