Riverstick, Co. Cork scores 72/100 for quality of life, #16 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €345,000 (most €280,750–€382,500), it scores 61/100 for safety (58.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 772 people live here, down 13.9% since 2016. It's strongest on environment and family & community.
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 Riverstick is #4 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
772 people, down 13.9% since 2016.
Vibrancy is the plain count of places to eat, drink and go out — restaurants, cafés, pubs, takeaways, nightclubs and cinemas inside the town boundary. 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.
Riverstick, Co. Cork, scores 72/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #16 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on environment and family & community.
Riverstick scores 61/100 on safety, ~58.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Riverstick over the last 24 months was €345,000, most between €280,750 and €382,500 (Property Price Register).
Riverstick is rated "Declining" — unemployment fell just 0 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 2 points — behind the national rise, population fell 13.9% since 2016.
2 planning applications were lodged within Riverstick in the last 12 months (30 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Riverstick scores 82/100 for families and community.
Riverstick scores 64/100 for schools and education.
Riverstick is about 18 minutes by road from Cork.
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.