Your feedback can help us improve and enhance our services to the public. Tell us what matters to you in our online Customer Satisfaction Survey.
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.
Note - data within the Standards on Income and Living Conditions series should be quoted as the official source of household and individual income statistics.
The median income of purchasers rose from €48,600 in 2012 to €71,300 by 2021.
For sole purchasers, the median income rose from €34,500 in 2012 to €46,000 by 2021 while the median for joint purchasers increased from €67,300 to €87,700 over the same time period.
Median incomes in 2021 were:
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown had the highest gross income for joint purchasers of €137,900 in 2021, followed by Dublin City (€108,200) and Fingal (€99,200).
The lowest values for gross income for joint purchasers were in Longford (€60,300), Cavan (€63,400) and Monaghan (€63,600).
For sole purchasers, the highest gross incomes were in Dublin City (€64,100), Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown (€62,500) and South Dublin (€57,500) while the lowest were in Longford (€32,000) and Monaghan (€33,500).
The joint income was €75,400 higher than the sole income in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown in 2021, the largest difference in Ireland. Offaly had the smallest difference of €23,600.
Learn about our data and confidentiality safeguards, and the steps we take to produce statistics that can be trusted by all.