Average rent in Ireland
Every county and 341 towns and suburbs, from the rents on tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board.
In October to December 2025 the dearest county to rent in was Dublin at €2,165 a month, and the cheapest was Donegal at €1,001.
These are averages of rents that were agreed and registered, not asking prices on listings, and not what a long standing tenant is paying. Each county page says so at length, because reading one of these as “what I should be paying” is the way to be misled by it.
RTB/ESRI Rent Index · January to March 2026
New and existing tenancies in Ireland
- New tenancies
- €1,839 a month
- rose 9.1% year on year
- Existing tenancies
- €1,513 a month
- rose 4.2% year on year
These are standardised averages, adjusted for the changing mix of properties. They are a separate measure from the registered-rent averages and historical breakdowns on this page, whose source table runs to October to December 2025. Figures for a county do not describe each town within it.
RTB/ESRI report. Published 3 September 2026.
Dearest first
Registered-rent averages by county
- Dublinrose 4.3%€2,165
- Wicklowrose 5.7%€1,751
- Kildarerose 7.3%€1,734
- Limerickrose 13.6%€1,681
- Galwayrose 9.1%€1,665
- Corkrose 9.1%€1,566
- Meathrose 7.1%€1,558
- Louthrose 8.6%€1,454
- Carlowrose 10.3%€1,349
- Westmeathrose 10.0%€1,285
- Waterfordrose 10.8%€1,284
- Laoisrose 12.6%€1,270
- Offalyrose 8.9%€1,219
- Kerryrose 9.7%€1,218
- Clarerose 10.8%€1,217
- Kilkennyrose 6.7%€1,216
- Sligorose 12.8%€1,203
- Wexfordrose 7.9%€1,203
- Longfordrose 11.2%€1,140
- Mayorose 11.2%€1,135
- Cavanrose 11.1%€1,129
- Roscommonrose 9.9%€1,115
- Tipperaryrose 10.6%€1,101
- Monaghanrose 12.3%€1,050
- Leitrimrose 10.6%€1,019
- Donegalrose 10.1%€1,001
The movement is against the same quarter a year earlier rather than the quarter before, because rents are seasonal and consecutive quarters would show the season as though it were a trend.
If your own rent is going up
The average for your town does not govern what you can be charged. What a landlord may lawfully ask is worked out from the rules and your own rent history, and there are three tools here that do it with the figures shown:
- Rent increase calculator, for the most a rent may lawfully go up by and when.
- Exemption checker, for whether the cap applies to the property at all.
- What replaced Rent Pressure Zones, for what changed on 1 March 2026.
Where this comes from
The quarterly and annual average monthly rent tables published by the Residential Tenancies Board, via the Central Statistics Office, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Imported 9 September 2026. The yearly figures come from the annual table rather than from averaging the quarters, because averaging four averages would produce a figure the Board never published.
Guides
Worth reading beside this
What to do when the rent goes up by more than it should
Check the amount, the interval and the notice, in that order. Then the Residential Tenancies Board dispute route, and what it can and cannot get back.
Deposits, and what a landlord can actually keep
A deposit cannot exceed one month's rent, and there are four grounds for keeping any of it. What to do when it is not returned.
Whether your tenancy is registered, and why it matters
Registration is the landlord's duty, not yours, and an unregistered tenancy still has every protection. What it changes in practice.