Santry, Co. Dublin City scores 66/100 for quality of life, #32 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “steady — moves with the market”. The median home sells for €380,000 (most €303,500–€495,000), it scores 59/100 for safety (61.5 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 3,474 people live here. It's strongest on transport & services and environment.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — tracking the national trend — no strong local tailwind or headwind.
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 Santry is #58 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
3,474 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.
Santry, Co. Dublin City, scores 66/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #32 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on transport & services and environment.
Santry scores 59/100 on safety, ~61.5 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Santry over the last 24 months was €380,000, most between €303,500 and €495,000 (Property Price Register).
Santry is rated "Steady — moves with the market" — unemployment fell 14% → 10%, in line with nationally, prices up 8.9%.
New builds are rare in Santry — under 1% of recent sales (Property Price Register).
17 planning applications were lodged within Santry in the last 12 months (95 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Santry scores 62/100 for families and community.
Santry scores 48/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Santry is about 14 minutes by road from Dublin.
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.