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Average rent in Castlebar

From the rents on tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board in Castlebar, Co. Mayo.

The average rent registered in Castlebar was €1,264 a month in October to December 2025.

On the same quarter a year earlier it rose 7.8%, from €1,172. Over the five years on this page it rose 68.7%.

The shape of it

Quarter by quarter

  1. Q1 2021€749
  2. Q2 2021€759
  3. Q3 2021€780
  4. Q4 2021€790
  5. Q1 2022€819
  6. Q2 2022€836
  7. Q3 2022€878
  8. Q4 2022€910
  9. Q1 2023€963
  10. Q2 2023€985
  11. Q3 2023€1,012
  12. Q4 2023€1,028
  13. Q1 2024€1,076
  14. Q2 2024€1,093
  15. Q3 2024€1,128
  16. Q4 2024€1,172
  17. Q1 2025€1,219
  18. Q2 2025€1,228
  19. Q3 2025€1,249
  20. Q4 2025€1,264

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.

By number of bedrooms

  1. Four plus bed€1,452
  2. Two bed€1,208
  3. Three bed€1,295

Measured at Q4 2025. Where a size is missing, the Board withheld it because too few tenancies of that size were registered to publish a figure.

By property type

  1. Detached house€1,315
  2. Semi detached house€1,336
  3. Terrace house€1,310
  4. Apartment€1,192

Measured at Q4 2025.

Year by year

  1. 2008€664
  2. 2009€645
  3. 2010€589
  4. 2011€555
  5. 2012€534
  6. 2013€526
  7. 2014€529
  8. 2015€539
  9. 2016€566
  10. 2017€604
  11. 2018€664
  12. 2019€715
  13. 2020€741
  14. 2021€784
  15. 2022€888
  16. 2023€1,018
  17. 2024€1,138
  18. 2025€1,247

What this figure is, and what it is not

It is the average rent on tenancies in Castlebar 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 Castlebar

The median house in Castlebar sold for €253,500 in 2025, across 164 sales on the Property Price Register. Every year since 2010 for Castlebar.

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. Mayo, 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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