Marino, Co. Dublin scores 52/100 for quality of life, #70 of the 107 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €593,500 (most €525,000–€680,000), it scores 57/100 for safety (54 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 980 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and affordability, weakest on local economy.
Updated October 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — improving in absolute terms, but falling behind the national trend.
These seven scores and the 52/100 are measured across the D11 Eircode area, not Marino alone — an area that takes in much of Dublin. 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 Marino is #75 of 107 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the D11 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (DMR North). Neither is measured for Marino on its own.
980 people.
Population is for Marino itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
Not ranked: a suburb’s boundary is a postal approximation, so its shops serve more people than are counted inside it.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Marino, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Marino, Co. Dublin, scores 52/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #70 of the 107 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and affordability.
The D11 Eircode area around Marino scores 57/100 on safety. Its Garda division, DMR North, records ~54.0 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for Marino on its own.
Marino is rated "affluent" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging +7.4 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range +1.4 to +16.8) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in Marino over the last 24 months was €593,500, with most sales between €525,000 and €680,000 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Marino over the last 24 months was €593,500, most between €525,000 and €680,000 (Property Price Register).
Marino is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment fell just 1 points — lagging the national fall, prices up 9.8%.
New builds are rare in Marino — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
31 planning applications were lodged within Marino in the last 12 months (260 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Marino scores 55/100 for families and community.
Marino scores 17/100 for schools and education, with 5 schools in the area.
Marino is about 7 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 October 2026.