Palmerstown, Co. Dublin City scores 66/100 for quality of life, #34 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “steady — moves with the market”. The median home sells for €457,000 (most €387,500–€520,500), it scores 48/100 for safety (79.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 1,807 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and environment, weakest on local economy.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — tracking the national trend — no strong local tailwind or headwind.
These seven scores and the 66/100 are measured across the D20 Eircode area, not Palmerstown alone — an area that takes in much of DUBLIN CITY. 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 Palmerstown is #50 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the D20 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (DMR West). Neither is measured for Palmerstown on its own.
1,807 people.
Population is for Palmerstown 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 Palmerstown, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Palmerstown, Co. Dublin City, scores 66/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #34 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and environment.
Palmerstown scores 48/100 on safety, ~79.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Palmerstown over the last 24 months was €457,000, most between €387,500 and €520,500 (Property Price Register).
Palmerstown is rated "Steady — moves with the market" — unemployment fell 13% → 8%, in line with nationally, prices up 13.4%.
New builds are rare in Palmerstown — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
21 planning applications were lodged within Palmerstown in the last 12 months (79 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Palmerstown scores 62/100 for families and community.
Palmerstown scores 61/100 for schools and education, with 7 schools in the area.
Palmerstown is about 13 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.