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Income of Purchasers

Income of Purchasers

Almost 63% of residential dwellings were purchased with a mortgage in 2021

CSO statistical release, , 11am

This publication is categorised as a CSO Frontier Series Output. Particular care must be taken when interpreting the statistics in this release as it may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete, for example new administrative data sources. For further information on the data sources, linking procedures and limitations of this report, see the Background and Methodology section.

Note - data within the Standards on Income and Living Conditions series should be quoted as the official source of household and individual income statistics.

Median income of buyers with a mortgage was €79,200 in 2021 compared with €49,900 for buyers without a mortgage

Dún Laoghaire Rathdown was the local authority with the highest median income of buyers with a mortgage at €126,900, followed by Dublin City at €93,300.

Longford was the region with the lowest median income of buyers with a mortgage at €56,000. Longford also had the lowest median income of buyers without a mortgage at €33,600, followed closely by Monaghan at €33,900.

Dún Laoghaire Rathdown was the region with the highest median income of buyers without a mortgage at €68,500, followed by Dublin City at €67,400.

Across all 31 local authorities in 2021, the median income of a buyers with a mortgage was larger than buyers without a mortgage. See Map 4.1 and 4.2 for more details.

Figure 4.1 Median income by buyer type, 2012-2021
Map 4.1 Median income of dwelling purchasers, by mortgage buyer, by Local Authority, 2021
Map 4.2 Median income of dwelling purchasers, by non-mortgage buyer, by Local Authority, 2021