Piltown, Co. Kilkenny scores 53/100 for quality of life, #89 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €269,500 (most €235,625–€361,250), it scores 56/100 for safety (64.9 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 1,519 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services, 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.
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 Piltown is #81 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
1,519 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.
Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, scores 53/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #89 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services.
Piltown scores 56/100 on safety, ~64.9 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Piltown over the last 24 months was €269,500, most between €235,625 and €361,250 (Property Price Register).
Piltown is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment fell 16% → 8% — faster than nationally, third-level education up only 3 points — behind the national rise, recorded crime rising faster than the town is growing.
New builds are rare in Piltown — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
6 planning applications were lodged within Piltown in the last 12 months, covering 1 residential unit (57 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Piltown scores 72/100 for families and community.
Piltown scores 14/100 for schools and education, with 2 schools in the area.
Piltown is about 23 minutes by road from Waterford.
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.