Kinvara, Co. Galway scores 68/100 for quality of life, #22 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €405,286 (most €341,500–€462,555), it scores 61/100 for safety (60.1 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 721 people live here. It's strongest on environment and transport & services.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
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 Kinvara is #26 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
721 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: under 2,000 residents, one pub swings the per-head figure too far to mean anything.
Kinvara, Co. Galway, scores 68/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #22 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on environment and transport & services.
Kinvara scores 61/100 on safety, ~60.1 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Kinvara over the last 24 months was €405,286, most between €341,500 and €462,555 (Property Price Register).
Kinvara is rated "Declining" — unemployment fell 8% → 4%, in line with nationally, third-level education up only 4 points — behind the national rise, recorded crime rising faster than the town is growing.
About 55% of homes sold in Kinvara in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
11 planning applications were lodged within Kinvara in the last 12 months, covering 6 residential units (76 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Kinvara scores 75/100 for families and community.
Kinvara scores 50/100 for schools and education, with 2 schools in the area.
Kinvara is about 31 minutes by road from Galway.
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.