Letterkenny, Co. Donegal scores 52/100 for quality of life, #94 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €206,500 (most €131,000–€295,000), it scores 71/100 for safety (44.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 17,113 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and environment, weakest on transport & services.
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 52/100 are measured across the F92 Eircode area, not Letterkenny alone — an area that takes in much of DONEGAL. 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 Letterkenny is #85 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the F92 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Donegal). Neither is measured for Letterkenny on its own.
17,113 people.
Population is for Letterkenny itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
28th most vibrant large town in Ireland, of 65 ranked.
Counts are venues in and around the town. Per head asks whether it is well served for its size.
Ranked against large towns only. Tourist towns read high: the venues are real, but not all of them are there for the people who live here.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Letterkenny, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, scores 52/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #94 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and environment.
Letterkenny scores 71/100 on safety, ~44.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Letterkenny over the last 24 months was €206,500, most between €131,000 and €295,000 (Property Price Register).
Letterkenny is rated "Declining" — unemployment rose 11% → 12% — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 0 points — behind the national rise, prices up 121.4%.
About 17% of homes sold in Letterkenny in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
136 planning applications were lodged within Letterkenny in the last 12 months, covering 193 residential units (739 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Letterkenny scores 75/100 for families and community.
Letterkenny scores 31/100 for schools and education, with 11 schools in the area.
Letterkenny is about 194 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.