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Average rent in Headford

From the rents on tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board in Headford, Co. Galway.

The average rent registered in Headford was €1,340 a month in October to December 2025.

On the same quarter a year earlier it rose 10.6%, from €1,212. Over the five years on this page it rose 22.6%.

The shape of it

Quarter by quarter

  1. Q1 2021€1,092
  2. Q2 2021€1,134
  3. Q3 2021€1,136
  4. Q4 2021€1,096
  5. Q1 2022€1,127
  6. Q2 2022€1,130
  7. Q3 2022€1,062
  8. Q4 2022€1,035
  9. Q1 2023€1,038
  10. Q2 2023€1,036
  11. Q3 2023€1,065
  12. Q4 2023€1,067
  13. Q1 2024€1,125
  14. Q2 2024€1,169
  15. Q3 2024€1,193
  16. Q4 2024€1,212
  17. Q1 2025€1,309
  18. Q2 2025€1,312
  19. Q3 2025€1,304
  20. Q4 2025€1,340

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

  1. 2008€951
  2. 2009€870
  3. 2010€776
  4. 2011€760
  5. 2012€775
  6. 2013€804
  7. 2014€834
  8. 2015€861
  9. 2016€896
  10. 2017€964
  11. 2018€1,046
  12. 2019€1,080
  13. 2020€1,113
  14. 2021€1,135
  15. 2022€1,125
  16. 2023€1,086
  17. 2024€1,180
  18. 2025€1,347

What this figure is, and what it is not

It is the average rent on tenancies in Headford 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 Headford

The median house in Headford sold for €327,500 in 2025, across 27 sales on the Property Price Register. Every year since 2010 for Headford.

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. Galway, 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.

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