House Price-to-Income Ratio Ireland — 5.81x National (2024)
Ireland's median house price is now 5.81x mean annual earnings — well past the 5x "severely unaffordable" threshold. This page tracks the ratio for all 26 counties, year by year from 2015 to 2024. It uses only publicly reproducible data: raw PPR transactions as the numerator and CSO NEA08 mean annual earnings as the denominator. Updated daily with the latest PPR filings.
National ratio 2015–2024
Ireland's national price-to-income ratio from 2015 to 2024, shown against the 5x "severely unaffordable" threshold:
2024 league table by county
Each county's ratio for 2024, coloured by band: red ≥8x, amber 7–8x, purple 6–7x, green <6x. The dashed line marks the 5x threshold.
| County | Ratio | PPR median | Mean earnings | PPR n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wicklow | 6.92x | €414,097 | €59,827 | 2,596 |
| Dublin | 6.68x | €440,000 | €65,822 | 19,308 |
| Kildare | 6.15x | €370,044 | €60,121 | 3,387 |
| Meath | 5.99x | €339,207 | €56,669 | 2,602 |
| Galway | 5.89x | €315,000 | €53,497 | 2,661 |
| Louth | 5.84x | €290,000 | €49,652 | 1,765 |
| Kilkenny | 5.80x | €295,000 | €50,886 | 1,057 |
| Wexford | 5.67x | €265,000 | €46,746 | 2,226 |
| Cork | 5.51x | €315,725 | €57,273 | 7,068 |
| Westmeath | 5.49x | €280,000 | €50,960 | 1,155 |
| Laois | 5.26x | €265,000 | €50,339 | 1,221 |
| Kerry | 5.25x | €242,000 | €46,139 | 1,470 |
| Waterford | 5.22x | €263,452 | €50,441 | 1,766 |
| Carlow | 5.17x | €247,250 | €47,834 | 666 |
| Limerick | 5.07x | €274,008 | €54,051 | 2,114 |
| Clare | 5.01x | €265,000 | €52,879 | 1,268 |
| Offaly | 4.93x | €237,000 | €48,121 | 873 |
| Monaghan | 4.70x | €207,000 | €44,045 | 461 |
| Sligo | 4.41x | €220,000 | €49,875 | 748 |
| Tipperary | 4.38x | €214,975 | €49,115 | 1,596 |
| Cavan | 4.24x | €200,000 | €47,173 | 830 |
| Mayo | 4.20x | €200,000 | €47,575 | 1,413 |
| Donegal | 4.03x | €175,000 | €43,445 | 1,523 |
| Longford | 3.82x | €172,250 | €45,056 | 480 |
| Roscommon | 3.73x | €182,000 | €48,826 | 802 |
| Leitrim | 3.64x | €171,806 | €47,235 | 493 |
Key counties 2015–2024
Trend lines for seven counties that feature most in housing debate. All move upward — they differ only in how fast.
Explore the live map
The charts above are snapshots. The map is the full dataset. Click to open an interactive choropleth of the price-to-income ratio. Hover any county to see that year's ratio, the median sale price, and the mean earnings behind it. Use the year picker in the panel to switch between 2015 and 2024.
Methodology
Ratio = median sale price (Property Price Register) ÷ mean annual earnings (CSO NEA08), per county per year.
Price data: Property Price Register annual CSVs cover every recorded residential sale in Ireland. We take the unweighted median of all transactions in that county and year, with no further adjustment. Data refreshes daily from propertypriceregister.ie.
Earnings data: CSO dataset NEA08 "Mean Annual Earnings", all workers and all sectors. Data refreshes daily. CSO publishes annually with about a 6-month lag — for example, 2024 earnings appeared in mid-2025.
Why these figures may look lower than press coverage: most affordability commentary (CSO/ESRI/Central Bank) adjusts house prices for apartment mix and other factors. That adjustment typically produces ratios 20–25% higher for urban counties than our raw median. We use the unadjusted PPR because every input is publicly downloadable and reproducible. Both approaches are valid — they answer slightly different questions.
Snapshot last refreshed: 2026-07-08. 2024 earnings is the latest CSO publication; 2024 PPR is YTD where applicable.
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