Salthill, Co. Galway scores 68/100 for quality of life, #22 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “established, plateauing”. The median home sells for €520,000 (most €361,250–€750,000), it scores 61/100 for safety (60.1 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 3,608 people live here. It's strongest on environment and transport & services.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Above average today — affluent and stable, but growth has plateaued — don't overpay.
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 Salthill is #26 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
3,608 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: a suburb’s boundary is a postal approximation, so its shops serve far more people than are counted inside it.
Salthill, 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.
Salthill scores 61/100 on safety, ~60.1 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Salthill over the last 24 months was €520,000, most between €361,250 and €750,000 (Property Price Register).
Salthill is rated "Established, plateauing" — unemployment fell 12% → 9%, in line with nationally.
About 4% of homes sold in Salthill in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
24 planning applications were lodged within Salthill in the last 12 months, covering 42 residential units (183 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Salthill scores 75/100 for families and community.
Salthill scores 50/100 for schools and education, with 6 schools in the area.
Salthill is about 3 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.