Area guide
Cabra, Dublin 7
Cabra is home to 23,681 people (Census 2022) across 4.41 km², covered here by 7 Electoral Divisions in Dublin City Council. In the last 12 months the area recorded 45 planning applications and 122 property sales, with a typical price of €459,500.
Figures compiled 8 Nov 2026. Every number on this page comes from a named public dataset, listed at the end.
- Typical price
- €459,500median, last 12 months
- Property sales
- 122last 12 months
- Planning applications
- 45last 12 months
- Approval rate
- 87%decided, last 7 years
- Population
- 23,681Census 2022
- Gigabit broadband
- 97%premises passed, Q2 2026
Planning and development
Cabra received 60 planning applications in 2025, down from 77 in 2024. Over the last seven years 504 applications were received within the Cabra boundary, 414 approved and 63 refused, with 365 residential units applied for.
| Year | Received | Approved | Refused | Residential units |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 from Nov | 15 | 12 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020 | 78 | 61 | 15 | 170 |
| 2021 | 94 | 80 | 11 | 1 |
| 2022 | 72 | 59 | 10 | 3 |
| 2023 | 73 | 60 | 10 | 105 |
| 2024 | 77 | 69 | 7 | 61 |
| 2025 | 60 | 52 | 6 | 6 |
| 2026 to date | 35 | 21 | 1 | 19 |
- Approved414
- Refused63
- Under review13
- Withdrawn8
Planning applications: National Planning Application Database (NPAD), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Seven-year window from 8 Nov 2019, invalid applications excluded.
Property prices
Typical price in Cabra rose from €313,500 in 2020 to €468,000 in 2026, up 49%.
How prices are measured on this page
Typical price is the median: half the sales were above it and half below. Average price is the mean, which a few very high or very low sales can pull up or down. They are two measures of the same sales, so they are expected to differ.
| Year | Sales | Typical price (median) | Average price (mean) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 from Jun | 76 | €313,500 | €323,428 |
| 2021 | 125 | €355,000 | €406,146 |
| 2022 | 149 | €378,000 | €408,830 |
| 2023 | 155 | €358,000 | €391,564 |
| 2024 | 128 | €430,000 | €706,379 |
| 2025 | 134 | €462,500 | €509,359 |
| 2026 to date | 102 | €468,000 | €490,718 |
Property prices: Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA), sales from 4 Jun 2020 to 27 Oct 2026.
Transport, broadband and zoning
Public transport stops inside the Cabra boundary, ComReg's fixed broadband coverage for its Small Areas, and how the current development plan zones the land.
- Rail and DART
- Broombridge
- Luas
- Broombridge, Cabra, Phibsborough
- Stop density
- 112 stops across 4.41 km², about 25 per km². Bus stops are counted per pole, so a road served in both directions counts twice.
Broadband figures are ComReg's averages across the 101 Small Areas that make up Cabra: 97% of premises passed by a gigabit network and 62% connected. They describe the area, never one address.
Land use. 71% of the zoned land is residential under the current development plan, 2022 to 2028, 356 hectares in all.
| Zone | Description | Hectares | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| R2 | Existing residential | 206.8 | 58% |
| R3 | Residential, mixed residential and other uses | 45.4 | 13% |
| G5 | Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other | 43.6 | 12% |
| S5 | Mixed/general community services/facilities uses | 37.6 | 11% |
| M3 | District, neighbourhood centre | 14.2 | 4% |
| G3 | Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape | 4.4 | 1% |
| M1 | Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site | 3.5 | 1% |
| C2.1 | Industrial, enterprise, employment | 0.9 | 0% |
Transport: GTFS, National Transport Authority. Broadband: ComReg Ireland Gigabit Statistics, Small Areas, CC BY 4.0; Small Area boundaries CSO, Q2 2026. Zoning: General Zoning Types (GZT), Irish local authorities via the Department of Housing.
Environment
Radon and green space for Cabra, from the EPA radon map and the zoning record.
EPA reading for the highest grid square touching the area: Between one and five per cent of the homes in this 10km grid square are estimated to be above the Reference Level.
Radon: EPA Radon Map, CC BY 4.0. EPA figures are for 10 km grid squares, so they describe the wider district, not one home.
Who lives here
23,681 people were counted in Cabra in Census 2022, 13% of them children under 15 and 15% aged 65 or over. 52% of dwellings are owner occupied, and the area is home to about 5,370 people per km².
Neighbourhood profile. On the Pobal HP Index, a measure of an area's census makeup where 0 is the national average, Cabra's Electoral Divisions score -3.0 on average, which is below the national average.
| Age | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 0 to 14 | 3,174 | 13% |
| 15 to 24 | 2,643 | 11% |
| 25 to 44 | 8,387 | 35% |
| 45 to 64 | 5,843 | 25% |
| 65 and over | 3,634 | 15% |
| Tenure | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Owner occupied | 5,042 | 52% |
| Rented | 4,024 | 41% |
| Vacant | 659 | 7% |
Population, age and tenure: CSO Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics; Small Area and Electoral Division boundaries, CSO and Tailte Éireann. Neighbourhood profile: Pobal HP Deprivation Index, most recent census.
How this area is defined
Cabra on this page is the Central Statistics Office Electoral Divisions listed below: 101 Small Areas, 4.41 km². Planning, transport, broadband, radon, zoning and census figures are counted inside that boundary. Prices are matched by address, as explained above.
- Cabra East A
- Cabra East B
- Cabra East C
- Cabra West A
- Cabra West B
- Cabra West C
- Cabra West D
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- Planning applications: National Planning Application Database (NPAD), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
- Property prices: Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA)
- Population, age and tenure: CSO Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics; Small Area and Electoral Division boundaries, CSO and Tailte Éireann
- Neighbourhood profile: Pobal HP Deprivation Index, most recent census
- Transport stops: GTFS, National Transport Authority
- Broadband: ComReg Ireland Gigabit Statistics, Small Areas, CC BY 4.0; Small Area boundaries CSO
- Radon: EPA Radon Map, CC BY 4.0
- Zoning: General Zoning Types (GZT), Irish local authorities via the Department of Housing