Average rent in Wilton
From the rents on tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board in Wilton, Co. Cork.
The average rent registered in Wilton was €1,177 a month in April to June 2022.
On the same quarter a year earlier it held roughly level, from €1,182. Over the five years on this page it held roughly level.
This is the last figure the Board published for this area, from April to June 2022, roughly 3 years ago. It has published nothing since, which happens once too few tenancies are registered in a place to report one without identifying them. Treat it as what rent was then, not what it is now.
The shape of it
Quarter by quarter
- Q1 2021€1,179
- Q2 2021€1,182
- Q3 2021€1,180
- Q4 2021€1,175
- Q1 2022€1,198
- Q2 2022€1,177
The bars do not start at zero. A rent series never goes near it, and a bar drawn from zero would make every quarter look identical.
Year by year
- 2008€995
- 2009€903
- 2010€825
- 2011€801
- 2012€790
- 2013€817
- 2014€854
- 2015€933
- 2016€1,032
- 2017€1,108
- 2018€1,179
- 2019€1,218
- 2020€1,202
- 2021€1,194
- 2022€1,244
What this figure is, and what it is not
It is the average rent on tenancies in Wilton that were registered with the Residential Tenancies Board, which every landlord is required to do. It is an average rather than a median, so a small number of expensive lettings pull it upwards.
It is not the rent being asked in advertisements. An asking rent is what a landlord hopes for and this is what was signed.
It is not what a sitting tenant is likely to be paying either. A tenancy enters this average at the rent agreed when it started and does not enter again, so the figure leans towards recently agreed rents and sits above what somebody who has been in the same home for years pays.
If your own rent is going up, the figure that governs it is not this one. What a landlord may lawfully charge is worked out from the rules and your own history, and the rent increase calculator does that with the figures shown.
Buying instead of renting in Wilton
The median house in Wilton sold for €350,000 in 2025, across 52 sales on the Property Price Register. Every year since 2010 for Wilton.
A sale median and a rent average are two different statistics about two different sets of homes. Neither one converts into the other and nothing on this site treats them as though it did.
Average rent across Co. Cork, and every other town in it.
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.