Find your town in County Meath
The county’s leader is Ashbourne, placed #4 of the 320 ranked nationally. County Meath grew by 13.2% between the 2016 and 2022 censuses. Households in the county have a median gross income of €70,657 (2022). For a new letting, the county average in 2025 was €1,542 a month. At the last census, in 2022, County Meath was home to 220,826 people.
What County Meath is like
The median ranked town in County Meath grades highest on hazard risk and jobs & income against towns across Ireland, and lowest on walkability. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
6 of 11 (55%) grade A− or better, against 25% of Irish towns.
Every town ranked by scoreThe full list for County Meath, with what drives each gradeCounty report cardHow County Meath compares with Ireland’s other counties, subject by subjectCompare two townsSide by side, subject by subjectFind a town that’s…
11 towns · ordered by county rank
Towns without an overall grade
Each has its page and the subject grades it has; the reason it has no overall grade is beside it.
15 smaller places in County Meath
With every town of 1,000 or more above, these are the remaining places in County Meath, A to Z: each has its page with its figures, too small for grades. The search at the top finds these too.
15 places under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
Counties next to County Meath
The counties that share a border with it: each one’s places, and how many of its towns have an overall grade.
Questions about County Meath
How do the biggest towns in County Meath grade?
Navan grades B overall, with its best grade in hazard risk. Next in size, Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney grades C+, best in hazard risk.
How are these towns ranked?
By the overall grade, which blends six graded subjects (safety, cost of living, health, jobs & income, walkability and hazard risk) from public data, each comparing a town with every town in Ireland of 1,000 or more. The rank is among the towns of 2,500 or more in County Meath, where five or more have an overall grade.
How does County Meath compare with the other counties?
On its report card, which sets official figures for the whole county beside how its towns grade, County Meath comes 2nd of 26 counties overall (A+). It does best on health and worst on cost of living.
Is every town in County Meath on TownRatings?
Yes: every one has its page, listed here from the biggest town to the smallest place; size decides only how many grades a page carries.
Why isn’t my town ranked?
The ranking covers towns of 2,500 or more with an overall grade. Athboy, Ballivor, Longwood, Slane and 3 more have no overall grade; their pages show the grades they have, and why.
Photos: Ashbourne, Trounce (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Dunboyne, 瑞丽江的河水 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Enfield, Scaramanga731 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Ratoath, Wanfried-Dublin (CC BY 4.0) · Dunshaughlin, Captain Fearnought at English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Trim, Row17 (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Stamullen, Robin Pollard (CC BY 3.0) · Duleek, C O'Flanagan (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Navan, 瑞丽江的河水 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Kells, Ian Rob (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney, P L Chadwick (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking Irish towns against each other only, run #54 of 3 November 2026 · CSO, Census 2022 (population). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).