Sandyford, Co. Dublin City scores 77/100 for quality of life, #7 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €485,000 (most €399,500–€685,875), it scores 60/100 for safety (60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 3,522 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and local economy, weakest on affordability.
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 Sandyford is #10 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
3,522 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.
Sandyford, Co. Dublin City, scores 77/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #7 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and local economy.
Sandyford scores 60/100 on safety, ~60.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Sandyford over the last 24 months was €485,000, most between €399,500 and €685,875 (Property Price Register).
Sandyford is rated "Declining" — unemployment fell just 1 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 3 points — behind the national rise, prices up 20.2%.
About 11% of homes sold in Sandyford in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
83 planning applications were lodged within Sandyford in the last 12 months, covering 2 residential units (463 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Sandyford scores 63/100 for families and community.
Sandyford scores 70/100 for schools and education, with 3 schools in the area.
Sandyford is about 21 minutes by road from Dublin, with 6 rail stops 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.