Living in Santry, Co. Dublin: Schools, Commute & House Prices 2026

Santry is a town in Co. Dublin, about 13 minutes from Dublin city centre by car and on the rail line, 2 schools, 52.5% of households own their home. Living here costs a median €468,000 to buy or €2,134 a month to rent (RTB Q4 2025) (a 5.5% gross yield).

Official CSO, Department of Education, Transport for Ireland, PPR & RTB data · 105 sales · PPR sales to Sep 2026 · CSO benchmark to Jul 2026 · rents Q4 2025 (RTB)

Who lives in Santry: 52.5% own their home, full Census breakdown

Who lives in Santry

2,908 people live in Santry on Census 2022 night. 52% of households own their home and 38% rent, so Santry leans towards owner occupiers. The most common way to commute is by car (43%). 13% are under 15 and 14% are aged 65 and over. 48% of those who have finished education hold a third level qualification.

Source: CSO Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics, CC-BY 4.0. Figures are for the Whitehall C electoral division around Santry.

Commuting to Dublin

Nearest train station: Killester (3.8 km away), on the DART line

Public transport serving Santry: 15 operators

Getting around Santry

Santry is served by 15 public-transport operators running 55 scheduled routes. Operators are Aircoach, Ashbourne Connect, Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann, Citylink, Dublin Coach, Dublin Express, Express Bus, Flight Link Limited, Go-Ahead Ireland, JJ Kavanagh, John McGinley Coach Travel, Kearns Transport, Nitelink, Dublin Bus and Wexford Bus.

Scheduled routes (a sample of 55)

• 2 - Dublin Airport - Gorey - Wexford
• 16 - Ballinteer - Dublin Airport
• 19 - Parnell Square West - Dublin Airport
• 22 - Dublin - Airport - Longford - Ballina
• 23 - Dublin - Airport - Longford - Sligo
• 24 - Merrion Square - Dublin Airport
• 30 - Dublin - Airport - Cavan - Donegal
• 32 - Dublin Airport - Monaghan - Letterkenny
• 33 - Balbriggan - Lower Abbey St
• 41 - Swords Manor - Lower Abbey Street
• N6 - Finglas Village - Naomh Barróg GAA
• 101 - Dublin - Airport - Drogheda
• 102 - Dublin Airport - Sutton DART
• 16D - Airport - Beaumont Village - Ballinteer not

Source: Transport for Ireland GTFS_All feed (NTA), CC-BY 4.0. Stops matched to the town within a 6 km radius; route list capped.

Schools in Santry

There are 2 primary schools in and around Santry, 1 of them in the DEIS programme.

Source: Department of Education, Data on Individual Schools. CC-BY 4.0.

Things to do in and around Santry

• Heritage nearby: Casino Marino, Dublin City (3 km) · St. Mary's Abbey Abbey, Dublin City (6 km) · St. Audoens Church, Dublin City (6 km) · Kilmainham Gaol (7 km)
• Walking trails in County Dublin: Wicklow Way · Barnaslingan - Pine loop trail (Blue) · Barnaslingan - Scalp Lookout Trail (Red) · Carrickgollogan - Lead Mines Way - (Orange)
• Nature reserves: Wicklow Mountains National Park · North Bull Island Nature Reserve · Rogerstown Estuary Nature Reserve

Where Santry is

Map © OpenStreetMap contributors

What it costs: house prices and rent in Santry

What this means: New builds in Santry sell at about a 15% discount to second-hand homes (€399,999 vs €469,000).

Recent sales in Santry

Actual sale prices from the Property Price Register, verifiable at propertypriceregister.ie.

Santry median price, year by year

Average rent by size (Q4 2025)

Maximum legal rent increase in Santry

Since 1 March 2026 a rent review is capped at the lower of 2% a year (pro rata) or CPI inflation.

The full March 2026 rent review rules

Santry compared with County Dublin

Rent or buy in Santry?

At a glance: €468,000 to buy versus €2,134 a month to rent (RTB Q4 2025), a 5.5% gross yield.

Local Property Tax in Santry

The median home (€468,000) falls in LPT Band 4, a base charge of €428 a year before Dublin County Council's local adjustment factor. Use the calculator for your exact valuation.

Renting in Santry: the March 2026 rent rules

Every rent increase is now capped at the lesser of 2% a year (pro rata) or CPI inflation, nationwide since 1 March 2026. A review needs 90 days' notice on the RTB form, no more than one in any 12 months, and the notice must cite three comparable homes from the RTB Rent Register. Check any rent increase against the legal cap, or see average rents for every Leinster town.

Before you move: planning and flood

Recent development in Santry

In the 12 months to September 2026, 28 planning grants were recorded in and around Santry, including 39 new homes approved across those grants. Data gap: the DHLGH planning layer holds no Dublin City Council application received after 30 Jul 2026, although the council's own register is still publishing, so this figure understates the last 12 months until the department resumes ingestion.

Source: Irish Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (ArcGIS, CC-BY 4.0). Granted applications keyed to the nearest town within 7 km. Homes column shows residential units in the application where recorded.

What this means: The 39 homes approved here in the last year are about 3% of Santry's roughly 1,131 households, a supply pipeline that typically eases price pressure.

Flood maps

For the modelled fluvial, coastal and pluvial flood extents around Santry, open the official OPW flood maps, the authoritative source for Santry, Dublin.

View the official OPW flood maps for Santry →

Source: Office of Public Works, floodinfo.ie. No OPW flood-extent values are reproduced here.

County context

Planning permissions are reported at NUTS3 region level; counties in this region share a figure.

Sources: CSO F1001, CIA02, BHQ09. CC-BY 4.0.

Nearby Dublin towns

Dartry · Sandycove · Mount Merrion · Rathgar · Glenageary · Rathmines

All Dublin house prices · All Leinster house prices

Sources: CSO Census 2022, Department of Education, Transport for Ireland, Property Price Register (PSRA), CSO RPPI, RTB via CSO. CC-BY. Figures verifiable at the official source.