Is Poleberry a good place to live?
Poleberry grades low on several counts. Its weakest is health (D−) — bad health runs at 189 and disability at 132 per 100 expected for its ages. The neighbourhood grades D− overall, better than 2% of Irish towns. In the ranking it comes #313 of 320 Irish towns. Crime is the sore point: 9.7 burglaries and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, and 10.6 violent crimes. Walkability is its strong suit. 37% of commuters walk, cycle or take the bus or train (the typical Irish town: 23%). Prices run to a median €294,100, 9.2 times local household income. Jobs & income is weaker too — 55% of working-age residents are employed, with an unemployment rate of 17%.
Figures: commuting, health and work, CSO Census 2022 · crime, CSO recorded crime, 2023 to 2025 · prices, Property Price Register, 2023 to 2025 · incomes, CSO.
This town's house price is the median for its whole Eircode routing key, town and countryside together: fewer than 30 sales in the town itself were recorded on the Property Price Register in 2023 to 2025, so its Cost Grade is less sure. Crime here is counted against the people who live here, but much of it involves people who come in to work, shop or go out, so the rate per resident runs higher than residents' own risk. Health less sure: few enough residents report bad health that the town's figure could be well above or below its true level. This town's Hazard risk Grade uses radon and landslides only: open LiDAR heights don't cover enough of its homes to measure flooding, so flood isn't counted for or against it.