Rochestown, Co. Cork City scores 65/100 for quality of life, #38 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “prime & compounding”. The median home sells for €410,000 (most €344,306–€510,000), it scores 61/100 for safety (58.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 1,246 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and affordability.
Updated September 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — affluent already, and still strengthening.
These seven scores and the 65/100 are measured across the T12 Eircode area, not Rochestown alone — an area that takes in much of CORK CITY. 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 Rochestown is #35 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the T12 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Cork City). Neither is measured for Rochestown on its own.
1,246 people.
Population is for Rochestown 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 Rochestown, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Rochestown, Co. Cork City, scores 65/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #38 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and affordability.
Rochestown scores 61/100 on safety, ~58.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Rochestown over the last 24 months was €410,000, with most sales between €344,306 and €510,000 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Rochestown over the last 24 months was €410,000, most between €344,306 and €510,000 (Property Price Register).
Rochestown is rated "Prime & compounding" — unemployment fell 12% → 6% — faster than nationally, third-level education up 18 points — faster than nationally.
About 26% of homes sold in Rochestown in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
20 planning applications were lodged within Rochestown in the last 12 months, covering 6 residential units (44 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Rochestown scores 64/100 for families and community.
Rochestown scores 55/100 for schools and education.
Rochestown is about 10 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 September 2026.