Summerhill, Co. Meath scores 62/100 for quality of life, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €405,286 (most €348,513–€572,640), it scores 73/100 for safety (32.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 947 people live here. It's strongest on family & community and environment, weakest on transport & services.
Updated October 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
These seven scores and the 62/100 are measured across the A83 Eircode area, not Summerhill alone — an area that takes in much of Meath. A strong or weak pocket inside it can read very differently from the area average.
The score is for the A83 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Meath). Neither is measured for Summerhill on its own.
947 people.
Population is for Summerhill 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 Summerhill, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Summerhill, Co. Meath, scores 62/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded). It's strongest on family & community and environment.
Summerhill scores 73/100 on safety, ~32.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Summerhill over the last 24 months was €405,286, with most sales between €348,513 and €572,640 (Property Price Register, rolling 24 months).
The median sale price in Summerhill over the last 24 months was €405,286, most between €348,513 and €572,640 (Property Price Register).
Summerhill is rated "Declining" — unemployment fell 14% → 9%, in line with nationally, third-level education up only 4 points — behind the national rise, recorded crime rising faster than the town is growing.
About 71% of homes sold in Summerhill in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
10 planning applications were lodged within Summerhill in the last 12 months, covering 12 residential units (54 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Summerhill scores 87/100 for families and community.
Summerhill scores 36/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Summerhill is about 43 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 October 2026.