Find your town in County Tipperary
Cahir is the best-graded town in County Tipperary, #37 of 320 across the country. Between the 2016 and 2022 censuses, the population of County Tipperary rose 5.2%. In 2022 the middle household in the county had a gross income of €52,756. Tenants signing in 2025 paid €1,078 a month on average across the county. County Tipperary had 167,895 people at the 2022 census.
What County Tipperary is like
The median ranked town in County Tipperary grades highest on cost of living and walkability against towns across Ireland, and lowest on safety. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
1 of 9 (11%) grade A− or better, against 25% of Irish towns.
Every town ranked by scoreThe full list for County Tipperary, with what drives each gradeCounty report cardHow County Tipperary compares with Ireland’s other counties, subject by subjectCompare two townsSide by side, subject by subjectFind a town that’s…
9 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.
35 smaller places in County Tipperary
With every town of 1,000 or more above, these are the remaining places in County Tipperary, A to Z: each has its page with its figures, too small for grades. The search at the top finds these too.
35 places under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
Counties next to County Tipperary
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 Tipperary
How do the biggest towns in County Tipperary grade?
Clonmel grades C+ overall, with its best grade in cost of living. Next in size, Nenagh grades B, best in cost of living.
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 Tipperary, where five or more have an overall grade.
How does County Tipperary compare with the other counties?
On its report card, which sets official figures for the whole county beside how its towns grade, County Tipperary comes 12th of 26 counties overall (B). It does best on cost of living and worst on growth.
Is every town in County Tipperary 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. Newport, Templemore, Fethard and Borrisokane have no overall grade; their pages show the grades they have, and why.
Photos: Cahir, Colin Park (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Nenagh, Cathal (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Cashel, Kweedado2 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Roscrea, Oliver Dixon (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Thurles, Sarah777 (Public domain) · Ballina, Sarah777 at English Wikipedia (Public domain) · Clonmel, Santista1982 (Public domain) · Tipperary, Colin Park (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Carrick-on-Suir, 2ManyCats4Me (CC0), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking Irish towns against each other only, run #58 of 4 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).