Rathard-Aherla, Co. Cork scores 72/100 for quality of life, #14 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €300,000 (most €300,000–€300,000), it scores 56/100 for safety (67 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 562 people live here. It's strongest on environment and family & community.
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 Rathard-Aherla is #4 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
562 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.
Rathard-Aherla, Co. Cork, scores 72/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #14 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on environment and family & community.
Rathard-Aherla scores 56/100 on safety, ~67.0 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Rathard-Aherla over the last 24 months was €300,000, most between €300,000 and €300,000 (Property Price Register).
Rathard-Aherla is rated "Declining" — unemployment rose 3% → 6% — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 0 points — behind the national rise.
2 planning applications were lodged within Rathard-Aherla in the last 12 months (14 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Rathard-Aherla scores 83/100 for families and community.
Rathard-Aherla scores 69/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Rathard-Aherla is about 23 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.