Ireland
Republic of Ireland
- Capital
- Dublin
- Region
- Northern Europe
- Population, 2025
- 5.5 million
- Currency
- EUR
- Area
- 70,273 km²
Across Ireland's 52 priced cities, one person needs about $3,452 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $3,975.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
60out of 100
- Purchasing power25%63
- Safety20%51
- Health care15%51
- Climate10%89
- Air quality10%98
- Connectivity10%76
- Cost10%4
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #58
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
81.4
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
48.9
New York = 100
Purchasing power
119.7
New York = 100
One person
$3,452
A month, rent included
Net salary
$3,975
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$2,339
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$131,592
2025
Growth
+12.3%
2025
Unemployment
4.6%
2025
Inflation
2.2%
2025
Life expectancy
83.0 years
2024
Internet users
97%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 40%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 20%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 12.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 23%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 33%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 4.2%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 11.3%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Inheritance tax
- 33%
- SourceWikipedia
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 50.9
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 49.1
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 0.7
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #36 worldwide
- 207
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #57 worldwide
- 80
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +21%
Cities in Ireland
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Cork | 62 | 77.7 | $2,216 | $4,104 | 138.7 | 224K | High confidence, 70 contributors |
| 2Claremorris | 62 | 64.3 | $813 | $4,341 | 279.0 | — | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 3South Dublin | 61 | — | — | — | — | 301.1K | Low confidence |
| 4Donegal | 59 | 67.4 | $1,119 | $4,362 | 234.0 | — | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 5Londonderry (Derry) | 59 | 68.3 | $698 | $2,684 | 178.0 | — | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 6Ballina | 58 | 73.6 | $918 | $3,355 | 189.4 | 10.6K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 7Limerick | 58 | 74.2 | $1,952 | $3,303 | 123.2 | 102.3K | High confidence, 24 contributors |
| 8Wicklow | 57 | 69.3 | $1,722 | $5,724 | 236.9 | 13K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 9Monaghan | 57 | 66.3 | $1,320 | $4,068 | 200.8 | 7.9K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 10Dublin | 57 | 83.8 | $2,540 | $3,975 | 119.7 | 1M | High confidence, 266 contributors |
| 11Sligo | 57 | 69.4 | $1,397 | $4,214 | 197.5 | 20.6K | High confidence, 26 contributors |
| 12Arklow | 57 | 76.0 | — | $4,936 | 209.6 | 13.4K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 13Portmarnock | 56 | 81.2 | — | $4,926 | 203.4 | 9.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 14Ennis | 56 | 71.6 | $1,334 | $3,713 | 176.1 | 27.9K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 15Leitrim | 56 | 83.0 | $1,044 | $3,307 | 165.0 | — | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 16Dun Laoghaire | 55 | 77.9 | $1,549 | $4,457 | 187.4 | 31.2K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 17Castlebar | 55 | 73.8 | $1,665 | $4,496 | 185.3 | 13.1K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 18Shannon | 55 | 75.3 | $1,224 | $3,253 | 157.9 | 10.3K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 19Portlaoise | 55 | 73.4 | $1,263 | $3,204 | 154.8 | 23.5K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 20Navan | 55 | 90.4 | $1,626 | $4,783 | 183.2 | 33.9K | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 21Killarney | 54 | 74.1 | $1,320 | $3,284 | 154.3 | 14.5K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 22Mallow | 54 | 74.5 | $1,378 | $3,329 | 152.5 | 13.5K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 23Clonmel | 54 | 75.8 | $1,320 | $3,099 | 144.1 | 18.4K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 24Tullamore | 53 | 77.0 | $1,550 | $3,501 | 147.9 | 15.6K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 25Athlone | 53 | 74.3 | $1,535 | $3,258 | 140.5 | 22.9K | High confidence, 26 contributors |
| 26Westport | 53 | 75.5 | $1,435 | $3,061 | 136.2 | 6.2K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 27Newbridge | 52 | 74.8 | $2,038 | $4,133 | 149.4 | 22.7K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 28Malahide | 52 | — | $2,066 | $5,658 | — | 16.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 29Cavan | 52 | 95.6 | $1,186 | $3,023 | 131.8 | 11.7K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 30Kilkenny | 52 | 69.6 | $1,480 | $2,793 | 126.4 | 21.6K | High confidence, 21 contributors |
| 31Wexford | 52 | 71.0 | $1,301 | $2,487 | 120.1 | 21.5K | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 32Kildare | 52 | 81.6 | $1,435 | $3,045 | 130.8 | 8.6K | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 33Tralee | 52 | 73.0 | $1,268 | $2,468 | 119.3 | 26.1K | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 34Waterford | 51 | 75.6 | $1,722 | $3,258 | 130.3 | 60.1K | High confidence, 32 contributors |
| 35Galway | 51 | 79.4 | $2,339 | $2,958 | 95.8 | 85.9K | High confidence, 45 contributors |
| 36Letterkenny | 51 | 75.1 | $1,079 | $1,958 | 101.4 | 22.5K | High confidence, 21 contributors |
| 37Maynooth | 51 | 81.4 | $2,525 | $4,400 | 134.2 | 17.3K | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 38Drogheda | 51 | 84.3 | $1,875 | $3,559 | 129.5 | 44.1K | High confidence, 23 contributors |
| 39Greystones | 50 | 72.7 | $2,181 | $3,444 | 120.3 | 22K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 40Carlow | 50 | 79.4 | $1,464 | $2,370 | 102.0 | 27.4K | High confidence, 21 contributors |
| 41Mullingar | 49 | 76.4 | $1,779 | $2,679 | 104.6 | 22.7K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 42Bray | 49 | 80.8 | $2,238 | $3,272 | 108.3 | 33.5K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 43Dundalk | 49 | 75.0 | $1,798 | $2,594 | 101.4 | 43.1K | High confidence, 25 contributors |
| 44Blanchardstown | 48 | 83.0 | $2,238 | $3,042 | 99.8 | 16.5K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 45Fermoy | 47 | 68.7 | — | $1,731 | 76.6 | 6.6K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 46Longford | 47 | 76.7 | $1,234 | $1,492 | 71.5 | 11K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 47Dingle | 47 | 80.9 | — | $1,914 | 79.1 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 48Dunboyne | 46 | 76.5 | — | — | — | 7.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 49Ballincollig | 46 | 77.1 | — | — | — | 18.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 50Carrigaline | 46 | 78.8 | — | — | — | 18.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 51Listowel | 46 | 80.9 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 52Naas | 46 | 77.8 | $1,636 | — | — | 20.7K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 53Celbridge | 46 | 78.7 | $1,837 | — | — | 20.3K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 54Swords | 45 | 75.9 | $1,952 | — | — | 40.8K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |