Rathgar, Co. Dublin scores 77/100 for quality of life, #4 of the 107 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €907,500 (most €557,500–€1,750,000), it scores 56/100 for safety (55.5 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 1,610 people live here. It's strongest on schools & education and transport & services, weakest on affordability.
Updated October 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
These seven scores and the 77/100 are measured across the D06 Eircode area, not Rathgar alone — an area that takes in much of Dublin. 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 Rathgar is #7 of 107 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the D06 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (DMR South). Neither is measured for Rathgar on its own.
1,610 people.
Population is for Rathgar 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 Rathgar, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Rathgar, Co. Dublin, scores 77/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #4 of the 107 areas we rank. It's strongest on schools & education and transport & services.
The D06 Eircode area around Rathgar scores 56/100 on safety. Its Garda division, DMR South, records ~55.5 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for Rathgar on its own.
Rathgar is rated "affluent" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging +10.5 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range +9.6 to +12.7) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in Rathgar over the last 24 months was €907,500, with most sales between €557,500 and €1,750,000 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Rathgar over the last 24 months was €907,500, most between €557,500 and €1,750,000 (Property Price Register).
Rathgar is rated "Declining" — unemployment fell just 1 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 4 points — behind the national rise, prices up 23.7%.
About 2% of homes sold in Rathgar in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
25 planning applications were lodged within Rathgar in the last 12 months, covering 3 residential units (144 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Rathgar scores 45/100 for families and community.
Rathgar scores 100/100 for schools and education, with 6 schools in the area.
Rathgar is about 12 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 October 2026.