AREA JOURNEY · STEP 2 OF 3
Explore local patterns
See where two published local figures are unusually high or low together. This is not a ranking or a measure of need. Each figure is shown beside an average for comparison, so you can judge the pattern for yourself.
Choose an area below to see its local patterns. A link to funding appears only after that, and only where a scheme's published rule about areas points to this one.
Pattern names, figure labels and the lists under them are shown in English only on this concept page.
Look up your own area
Matches every local area (Electoral Division) in Ireland. Areas under 300 residents are left out everywhere on this page: a single household can swing a rate enough to look dramatic when it isn't.
Browse by pattern: local area
Each group below names two published figures for the same small area. An area is listed only if both figures are far from the average local area, in the direction stated. Here “far” means at least one and a half standard deviations, a common measure of how spread out figures are. Only areas with at least 300 residents are included. Areas are listed alphabetically, never ranked, and an area can be in more than one group or in none.
Browse by pattern: county and city
House prices, planning permissions and social housing waiting times are only published for a county or a council, not for each local area. So this group is kept separate from the one above, never mixed into it. The same "no combined score" rule applies: a county either matches a named pair of figures or it does not, and counties are listed alphabetically.
What this page does not do
- It does not add the figures into one number, and it never places areas on a single scale, because these figures do not belong on one together.
- It does not say why two figures move together. A shared pattern can have entirely different causes in two different places.
- It says nothing about any person living in the area, only about the area's published figures.
- Once you have chosen an area and looked at its patterns, ATLAS may show a link to funding, where the published figures point to one of the scheme rules it checks. That link is a starting point for further reading. It never says an area or organisation is eligible for anything.