The median home sells for €392,500 (most €370,200–€439,648), 719 people live here.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
719 people.
Population is for Whitechurch 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 Whitechurch, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
The median sale price in Whitechurch over the last 24 months was €392,500, most between €370,200 and €439,648 (Property Price Register).
Whitechurch is rated "Declining" — unemployment rose 10% → 12% — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 1 points — behind the national rise.
About 69% of homes sold in Whitechurch in the last 24 months were new builds (Property Price Register).
7 planning applications were lodged within Whitechurch in the last 12 months, covering 324 residential units (27 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Whitechurch is about 17 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.