Renmore, Co. Galway scores 68/100 for quality of life, #22 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “stagnating”. The median home sells for €390,000 (most €285,000–€475,000), it scores 61/100 for safety (60.1 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 1,454 people live here. It's strongest on environment and transport & services.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
About average today — improving in absolute terms, but falling behind the national trend.
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 Renmore is #26 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
1,454 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.
Renmore, Co. Galway, scores 68/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #22 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on environment and transport & services.
Renmore scores 61/100 on safety, ~60.1 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Renmore over the last 24 months was €390,000, most between €285,000 and €475,000 (Property Price Register).
Renmore is rated "Stagnating" — unemployment fell 11% → 6%, in line with nationally, third-level education up only 4 points — behind the national rise.
About 3% of homes sold in Renmore in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
12 planning applications were lodged within Renmore in the last 12 months, covering 20 residential units (73 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Renmore scores 75/100 for families and community.
Renmore scores 50/100 for schools and education, with 3 schools in the area.
Renmore is about 9 minutes by road from Galway.
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.