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Sex of Purchasers

Sex of Purchasers

CSO statistical release, , 11am
A CSO Frontier Series Output

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.

Male and female joint purchase most common transaction type

Seven in ten (71.2%) purchases of residential dwellings were joint transactions with a male and female. Just over one in ten (12.2%) were male sole purchasers while a further one in ten (12.3%) were female sole purchasers.

Figure 3.1 Count of dwelling purchasers by sex cohort, 2010-2021

Regions in the Greater Dublin Area have the highest share of Male and Female joint purchasers

The highest proportion of male and female joint purchasers were in Meath (80.5%), Kildare (80%) and South Dublin (79.9%) while the lowest was 58.7% in Longford.