The Central Statistics Office has made available analysis of residential property purchasers in 2019 classified by average price paid in hundreds of Local Election Areas around Ireland.

The average age and earnings of the purchasers in the various LEAs is also quantified.

Of the 45,280 dwellings purchased in 2019, the LEA with the highest number of transactions was Howth-Malahide in Fingal, at 770, followed by Naas in Kildare at 740. LEAs like Muinebeag, Carlow, Belmullet, Mayo, and Ballybay-Clones in Monaghan jointly had the lowest number of transactions at 70.

The top five largest median prices were found in the Dublin urban areas of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, and Dublin City. Stillorgan had the highest median price at €665,000, followed by Pembroke at €637,000.

Boyle in Roscommon was the LEA with the lowest median price at €96,000, followed by Carrick-On-Shannon and Manorhamilton in Leitrim at €100,000 and €102,000 respectively.

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Ongar in Fingal was the LEA with the lowest median age for sole purchasers at 35, while it stood at 33 for joint purchasers in Tallaght South.

While the median income of a joint purchaser was €81,500 in 2019 at a state level, at an LEA level it varied from a low of €48,800 in Buncrana in Donegal to a high of €162,600 in Pembroke in Dublin City.

While the four local authority areas of Dublin dominated the table in terms of LEAs with the highest median joint purchaser income, Cork City South East was the thirteenth highest LEA with a value of €110,200.

CSO statistician Seán O’Connor commented: “Particular care must be taken when interpreting the statistics as it may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete, for example new administrative data sources.”

The CSO dataset can be accessed here.