Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin City scores 81/100 for quality of life, #3 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €705,000 (most €568,500–€897,250), it scores 60/100 for safety (60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 2,265 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and local economy, weakest on affordability.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — improving in absolute terms, but falling behind the national trend.
These seven scores and the 81/100 are measured across the D14 Eircode area, not Rathfarnham 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 Rathfarnham is #10 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the D14 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (DMR South). Neither is measured for Rathfarnham on its own.
2,265 people.
Population is for Rathfarnham 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 Rathfarnham, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin City, scores 81/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #3 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and local economy.
Rathfarnham scores 60/100 on safety, ~60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Rathfarnham over the last 24 months was €705,000, most between €568,500 and €897,250 (Property Price Register).
Rathfarnham is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment fell just 1 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 3 points — behind the national rise, prices up 12.1%, recorded crime falling.
About 11% of homes sold in Rathfarnham in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
25 planning applications were lodged within Rathfarnham in the last 12 months, covering 1 residential unit (148 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Rathfarnham scores 75/100 for families and community.
Rathfarnham scores 86/100 for schools and education, with 4 schools in the area.
Rathfarnham is about 17 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.