Rathmore, Co. Kerry scores 58/100 for quality of life, #67 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €165,000 (most €100,000–€255,506), it scores 56/100 for safety (67 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 766 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and family & community, weakest on schools & education.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
About average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
These seven scores and the 58/100 are measured across the P51 Eircode area, not Rathmore alone — an area that takes in much of KERRY. 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 Rathmore is #58 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the P51 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Cork North). Neither is measured for Rathmore on its own.
766 people.
Population is for Rathmore itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
Not ranked: under 2,000 residents, one pub swings the per-head figure too far.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Rathmore, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Rathmore, Co. Kerry, scores 58/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #67 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and family & community.
Rathmore scores 56/100 on safety, ~67.0 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Rathmore over the last 24 months was €165,000, most between €100,000 and €255,506 (Property Price Register).
Rathmore is rated "Declining" — unemployment rose 5% → 9% — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 0 points — behind the national rise.
5 planning applications were lodged within Rathmore in the last 12 months (25 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Rathmore scores 82/100 for families and community.
Rathmore scores 41/100 for schools and education.
Rathmore is about 64 minutes by road from Cork, with 1 rail stop 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.