Newmarket, Co. Cork scores 58/100 for quality of life, #67 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €178,000 (most €125,500–€265,000), it scores 56/100 for safety (67 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 445 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and family & community, weakest on schools & education.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — improving in absolute terms, but falling behind the national trend.
These seven scores and the 58/100 are measured across the P51 Eircode area, not Newmarket alone — an area that takes in much of CORK. 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 Newmarket is #58 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the P51 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Cork North). Neither is measured for Newmarket on its own.
445 people.
Population is for Newmarket 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 Newmarket, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Newmarket, Co. Cork, scores 58/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #67 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and family & community.
Newmarket scores 56/100 on safety, ~67.0 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Newmarket over the last 24 months was €178,000, most between €125,500 and €265,000 (Property Price Register).
Newmarket is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment fell 13% → 7%, in line with nationally, third-level education up only 0 points — behind the national rise.
New builds are rare in Newmarket — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
10 planning applications were lodged within Newmarket in the last 12 months, covering 10 residential units (34 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Newmarket scores 82/100 for families and community.
Newmarket scores 41/100 for schools and education, with 2 schools in the area.
Newmarket is about 56 minutes by road from Cork.
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.