Photo: Robert Bone · CC BY-SA 2.0Since 2015, Headford’s home prices have outrun the typical Irish town: up 182% against +129%
Homes in Headford sell for a median €323,500. That is the middle of 127 market sales on the Property Price Register from 2023 to 2025. The typical home sells for 2.8 times as much as in 2015. Rent, income and the Cost of living Grade are on Headford’s cost of living page.
70% of the homes sold in Headford were second-hand
127 market sales in three years: 38 new homes and 89 second-hand. At the median a new home sold for 18% more.
median sale · 38 sold in 3 years
- the typical Irish town
- €419K
median sale · 89 sold in 3 years
- the typical Irish town
- €326K
median sale · 127 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- €255K–€375K
- Last 12 months
- €415K 75 sold
- the typical Irish town
- €350K
30% of the sales were new homes
Market sales on the Property Price Register, 2023–25. The register says whether a home was new or second-hand, not its type or size. New homes are filed without VAT; we add back 13.5%. A median needs 30 sales.
Half of Headford’s homes sold for between €255K and €375K
One sale in ten was under €155K and one in ten over €445K. 24% sold for under €250K and 4% for €500K or more.
The median, €323,500, sits in the €300–400K band
127 market sales, 2023–25, VAT included. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
The typical home costs 2.8 times as much as in 2015, a faster rise than the typical Irish town’s
From €119,500 in 2014 to €370,000 in 2025, each the median of that year’s market sales.
About as many homes sell as usual
39 homes sold in 2025. The busiest year was 2022, with 81, and the quietest 2010, with 8.
Headford costs about what the typical Irish town does
Each year’s median sale: the town, the middle of County Galway’s towns of 2,500 or more, and the typical Irish town.
New homes and second-hand, year by year
| 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All homes | — | €131K | €225K | €370K |
| Typical Irish town | €220K | €170K | €261K | €388K |
| Second-hand homes | — | €128K | €220K | — |
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 30 sales of the kind, so a dash is a year with fewer.
Property Price Register: every market sale placed in the town since 2010, VAT included; a year’s median needs 30 sales. Sales whose address names no town aren’t counted.
30% of the homes sold in Headford in three years were new
38 new homes and 89 second-hand ones sold from 2023 to 2025, by the register’s own split.
28% of the homes sold in 2025 were new
Calendar years with 10 or more sales. The share peaked at 58% in 2022.
A new home sold for a median €340,900
against €290,000 for a home sold on, 18% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
Filed without VAT
Most new homes are filed on the register without VAT. Every figure here adds back 13.5%, so new and second-hand compare like for like.
Property Price Register, 2023–25: 38 new and 89 second-hand market sales. New homes are filed without VAT; we add back 13.5%.
Gort Na Fuinse is Headford’s busiest street or estate, with 25 sales in three years
4 streets and estates had 5 or more sales from 2023 to 2025, 2 of them ten or more.
| # | Street or estate | Sales | Median | Homes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gort Na Fuinse | 25 | €323,500 | Mostly new |
| 2 | Clós Na Heaglaise | 10 | €430,000 | Mostly new |
| 3 | Ower | 8 | €215,000 | Second-hand |
| 4 | Eallagh | 5 | €352,500 | Second-hand |
Streets and estates with 5 or more market sales from 2023 to 2025, named as the register’s addresses name them; medians only.
Headford is the 18th most expensive of 28 towns in County Galway
Headford is in the middle of County Galway’s towns to buy in; the typical Irish town’s median is €350,000.
Towns of 1,000 or more in County Galway, by their median home of 2023–25; * marks a routing-key median (fewer than 30 sales in the town). Each links to its own Housing page.
Cheaper nearby: Oughterard, Tuam and Ballinrobe.
The towns around Headford: their median home (2023–25), market sales on the Property Price Register in those three years, the change in ten years and the distance.
| Town | Median sale | Sales, 3 years | Since 2015 | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headford | €324K | 127 | +182% | |
| Oughterard | €298K | 70 | – | 15.4 |
| Maigh Cuilinn | €388K | 162 | +61% | 15.8 |
| Tuam | €230K | 527 | +189% | 17.1 |
| Baile Chláir | €363K | 159 | +46% | 17.6 |
| Ballinrobe | €190K | 167 | +174% | 19 |
A routing-key price (fewer than 30 sales in the town) counts for its whole postal area. Rents are each town’s own RTB figure where published, else its district’s, city’s or county’s.
Questions about property prices in Headford
What is the average house price in Headford?
The median home in Headford sold for €323,500 from 2023 to 2025, across 127 market sales on the Property Price Register (€415,000 in the last 12 months).
How many homes sell in Headford each year?
39 sales in Headford were filed on the Property Price Register in 2025, against an average of 46 a year over the last ten. Sales whose address names no town aren’t counted, so the true figure is somewhat higher.
How much does a new build cost in Headford?
New homes sold for a median €340,900 over three years, against €290,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 30% of sales.
Can I see individual sales or prices by street?
Yes: the Property Price Register publishes every residential sale with its address and price at propertypriceregister.ie. This page shows the town’s medians and counts.
Sales: Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority. House prices by Eircode routing key, RTB rents and household incomes: CSO, CC BY 4.0. Routing-key areas: Autoaddress.
Sources: Property Price Register (PSRA), 2010–2026 · CSO HPA04 house prices by Eircode routing key, 2023–25. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).