Ranelagh, Co. Dublin scores 78/100 for quality of life, #6 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €785,500 (most €525,000–€1,300,000), it scores 60/100 for safety (60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 48,716 people live here, up 2.2% since 2016. It's strongest on schools & education and transport & services, weakest on affordability.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
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 Ranelagh is #28 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
48,716 people, up 2.2% since 2016.
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: a suburb’s boundary is a postal approximation, so its shops serve far more people than are counted inside it.
Ranelagh, Co. Dublin, scores 78/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #6 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on schools & education and transport & services.
Ranelagh scores 60/100 on safety, ~60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Ranelagh over the last 24 months was €785,500, most between €525,000 and €1,300,000 (Property Price Register).
Ranelagh is rated "Declining" — unemployment fell just 1 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 3 points — behind the national rise, population grew just 2.2% vs 8% nationally, prices up 54.4%.
About 1% of homes sold in Ranelagh in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
531 planning applications were lodged within Ranelagh in the last 12 months, covering 488 residential units (3,531 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Ranelagh scores 46/100 for families and community, and its population is growing (up 2.2% since 2016).
Ranelagh scores 100/100 for schools and education, with 4 schools in the area.
Ranelagh is about 10 minutes by road from Dublin, with 2 rail stops 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 August 2026.