Kinnitty, Co. Offaly scores 48/100 for quality of life, #93 of the 107 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “on the up — emerging”. The median home sells for €230,000 (most €185,000–€281,000), it scores 62/100 for safety (48.1 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 420 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and family & community, weakest on local economy.
Updated October 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 48/100 are measured across the R42 Eircode area, not Kinnitty alone — an area that takes in much of Offaly. 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 Kinnitty is #86 of 107 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the R42 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Laois/Offaly). Neither is measured for Kinnitty on its own.
420 people.
Population is for Kinnitty 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 Kinnitty, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Kinnitty, Co. Offaly, scores 48/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #93 of the 107 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and family & community.
The R42 Eircode area around Kinnitty scores 62/100 on safety. Its Garda division, Laois/Offaly, records ~48.1 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for Kinnitty on its own.
Kinnitty is rated "below average" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging -6.2 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range -7.1 to -5.3) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in Kinnitty over the last 24 months was €230,000, with most sales between €185,000 and €281,000 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Kinnitty over the last 24 months was €230,000, most between €185,000 and €281,000 (Property Price Register).
Kinnitty is rated "On the up — emerging" — unemployment fell just 2 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up 11 points — faster than nationally, recorded crime falling.
4 planning applications were lodged within Kinnitty in the last 12 months, covering 3 residential units (30 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Kinnitty scores 79/100 for families and community.
Kinnitty scores 32/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Kinnitty is about 75 minutes by road from Limerick.
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 October 2026.