Sallins, Co. Kildare scores 66/100 for quality of life, #28 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “prime & compounding”. The median home sells for €400,000 (most €299,375–€493,500), it scores 63/100 for safety (55.1 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 6,269 people live here. It's strongest on family & community and environment.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — affluent already, and still strengthening.
These seven scores and the 66/100 are measured across the W91 Eircode area, not Sallins alone — an area that takes in much of KILDARE. 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 Sallins is #35 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the W91 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Kildare). Neither is measured for Sallins on its own.
6,269 people.
Population is for Sallins itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
107th most vibrant small town in Ireland, of 131 ranked.
Ranked against small towns only; tourist towns read high.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Sallins, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Sallins, Co. Kildare, scores 66/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #28 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on family & community and environment.
Sallins scores 63/100 on safety, ~55.1 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Sallins over the last 24 months was €400,000, most between €299,375 and €493,500 (Property Price Register).
Sallins is rated "Prime & compounding" — unemployment fell 9% → 6%, in line with nationally, third-level education up 8 points — faster than nationally.
About 6% of homes sold in Sallins in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
41 planning applications were lodged within Sallins in the last 12 months, covering 521 residential units (181 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Sallins scores 81/100 for families and community.
Sallins scores 56/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Sallins is about 35 minutes by road from Dublin, 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.