Sneem, Co. Kerry scores 67/100 for quality of life, #26 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €234,240 (most €170,000–€270,625), it scores 72/100 for safety (42.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 386 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services, weakest on schools & education.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
About average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
These seven scores and the 67/100 are measured across the V93 Eircode area, not Sneem alone — an area that takes in much of KERRY. 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 Sneem is #18 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the V93 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Kerry). Neither is measured for Sneem on its own.
386 people.
Population is for Sneem itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
Not ranked: under 2,000 residents, one pub swings the per-head figure too far.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Sneem, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Sneem, Co. Kerry, scores 67/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #26 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services.
Sneem scores 72/100 on safety, ~42.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Sneem over the last 24 months was €234,240, with most sales between €170,000 and €270,625 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Sneem over the last 24 months was €234,240, most between €170,000 and €270,625 (Property Price Register).
Sneem is rated "Declining" — unemployment rose 6% → 9% — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 0 points — behind the national rise.
About 13% of homes sold in Sneem in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
8 planning applications were lodged within Sneem in the last 12 months (40 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Sneem scores 78/100 for families and community.
Sneem scores 41/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Sneem is about 104 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 August 2026.