Rochestown, Co. Cork scores 60/100 for quality of life, #33 of the 107 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “prime & compounding”. The median home sells for €421,000 (most €352,423–€520,000), it scores 58/100 for safety (52.9 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents across its Garda division), 1,246 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and affordability.
Updated October 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — affluent already, and still strengthening.
These seven scores and the 60/100 are measured across the T12 Eircode area, not Rochestown alone — an area that takes in much of Cork. 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 #38 of 107 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, scores 60/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #33 of the 107 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and affordability.
The T12 Eircode area around Rochestown scores 58/100 on safety. Its Garda division, Cork City, records ~52.9 crimes per 1,000 residents (An Garda Síochána); there is no official figure for Rochestown on its own.
Rochestown is rated "affluent" on the Pobal HP Deprivation Index, averaging +5.2 across its Electoral Divisions, where 0 is the national average (range -1.6 to +7.9) (Pobal / CSO Census 2022).
The median sale price in Rochestown over the last 24 months was €421,000, with most sales between €352,423 and €520,000 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Rochestown over the last 24 months was €421,000, most between €352,423 and €520,000 (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 24% of homes sold in Rochestown in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
21 planning applications were lodged within Rochestown in the last 12 months, covering 6 residential units (45 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Rochestown scores 62/100 for families and community.
Rochestown scores 52/100 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 October 2026.