Rathmines, 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 €805,000 (most €523,000–€1,300,000), it scores 60/100 for safety (60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 39,590 people live here. 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 Rathmines is #28 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
39,590 people.
8th most vibrant large town in Ireland, of 65 ranked.
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.
Ranked against large towns only. Tourist towns read high — the venues are real, but not all of them are there for the people who live here.
Rathmines, 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.
Rathmines scores 60/100 on safety, ~60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Rathmines over the last 24 months was €805,000, most between €523,000 and €1,300,000 (Property Price Register).
Rathmines 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 59.6%.
New builds are rare in Rathmines — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
381 planning applications were lodged within Rathmines in the last 12 months, covering 213 residential units (2,604 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Rathmines scores 46/100 for families and community.
Rathmines scores 100/100 for schools and education, with 14 schools in the area.
Rathmines is about 11 minutes by road from Dublin, with 10 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.