Kilmacanogue, Co. Wicklow scores 70/100 for quality of life, #19 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €512,500 (most €407,500–€787,500), it scores 70/100 for safety (43.9 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 1,065 people live here. It's strongest on environment and transport & services.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
About average today — improving in absolute terms, but falling behind the national trend.
These seven scores and the 70/100 are measured across the A98 Eircode area, not Kilmacanogue alone — an area that takes in much of WICKLOW. 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 Kilmacanogue is #31 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the A98 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Wicklow). Neither is measured for Kilmacanogue on its own.
1,065 people.
Population is for Kilmacanogue 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 Kilmacanogue, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Kilmacanogue, Co. Wicklow, scores 70/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #19 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on environment and transport & services.
Kilmacanogue scores 70/100 on safety, ~43.9 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Kilmacanogue over the last 24 months was €512,500, most between €407,500 and €787,500 (Property Price Register).
Kilmacanogue is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment fell 11% → 8%, in line with nationally, third-level education up only 4 points — behind the national rise.
New builds are rare in Kilmacanogue — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
11 planning applications were lodged within Kilmacanogue in the last 12 months (71 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Kilmacanogue scores 74/100 for families and community.
Kilmacanogue scores 57/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Kilmacanogue is about 31 minutes by road from Dublin.
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.