Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown has wealthiest households with 85,000-euro average income

People living in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown have the highest incomes for a council area, according to the Central Statistics Office.

The median gross household income in the area was 84,991 euro, according to CSO figures for 2022.

This compared with Longford, which had the lowest in Leinster at 47,217 euro.

The local election area with the highest household income was Stillorgan at almost 100,000 euro, followed by Blackrock at 94,381.

The figures came in the CSO’s Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland for 2022.

By local authority and province, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown had the highest median gross household income in Leinster, while Longford had the lowest.

In Munster, Cork County had the highest median gross household income at 60,906 euro, while Kerry had the lowest at 48,320.

The highest median gross household income by local authority in Connacht was in Galway County at 59,895 euro, and the lowest was in Leitrim at 45,267.

In Ulster, the highest median gross household income was in Cavan at 52,321 euro, while Donegal had the lowest at 42,497.

The local election areas with the highest median gross household income were Stillorgan at 99,352 euro, Blackrock at 94,381, Pembroke at 92,341, Glencullen-Sandyford at 92,431, and Ratoath in Meath with 88,796. The lowest was Ballymun-Finglas at 53,184 euro.

The three towns with the highest median gross household income were in Leinster: Malahide in Dublin with 97,168 euro, Ratoath in Meath at 96,273, and Donabate in Dublin at 95,871.

Bearna in Galway was fourth highest in the state, and the highest in Connacht, with a median gross income of 90,881 euro.

The town with the highest median gross household income in Munster was Annacotty in Limerick (90,182 euro), while in in Ulster it was Kingscourt in Cavan (54,739).

Lifford in Donegal had the lowest median gross household of 31,959 euro.

Just under half of households in Ireland had a gross household income of less than 60,000 euro in 2022, increasing to almost two-thirds in Donegal and falling to just over a third in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown.

At the upper end of the income distribution, 4.3% of households had a gross income of 200,000 euro or above, decreasing to 1% in Donegal and rising to 14.6% in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown.

Eva O’Regan, statistician in the Income, Consumption and Wealth (ICW) division, said: “This release, published as a CSO Frontier Series Output, produces household income statistics using administrative data.

“Estimates are provided at multiple levels of geography, including by county, administrative county (local authority), local electoral area (LEA) and electoral division.

“It is worth noting that administrative data is pseudonymised prior to any statistical analysis taking place to protect the privacy of individuals.”