Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0A typical home in Rhode sold for €282,500
That is the middle of 50 market sales in Rhode on the Property Price Register from 2023 to 2025, against €350,000 in the typical Irish town. Rhode has no Cost of living Grade: towns under 1,000 people aren’t graded, but the figures below are still its own.
What Rhode’s housing numbers say
Homes in Rhode cost less than in the typical Irish town
The median home in Rhode sold for €282,500 from 2023 to 2025, 19% under the typical Irish town’s €350,000. Towns its size ↓
Figures: the Property Price Register and CSO (prices), the RTB (rents), CSO (income, 2022).
Rhode has no Cost of living Grade
The grade is kept for towns of 1,000 people or more, so Rhode’s prices and rents are shown without one.
What homes sell for, new and second-hand
50 market sales in three years: 0 new homes and 50 second-hand.
At the median: second-hand homes 13% under the typical Irish town’s €325,500.
See the figures
| Type | Median | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second-hand homes | €282,500 | 50 | 100% |
| All homes | €282,500 | 50 | 100% |
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.
About 17 sales a year
Homes sold in Rhode each calendar year on the Property Price Register since 2010. That is 3.1 times as many as in 2010.
Every sale filed with the PSRA that we could place in the town by its address; 2026 is still filling. Sales whose address names no town aren’t counted, so the true number is somewhat higher.
A year’s rent takes 26% of the county’s income
Each dot is a town of 2,500 or more in County Offaly, set against the county’s median household income before tax, €56,048.
The Central Bank lets a first-time buyer borrow up to 4 times gross income (3.5 times for a later home), with at least 10% down. On County Offaly’s median of €56,048, that is up to €224,000. The town’s median home, €282,500, is €58,500 more than that, before stamp duty of €2,825. Within that reach in County Offaly: 2 towns, the dearest Birr (€200K) and Clara (€185K). A second-time buyer on the same income can borrow up to €196,000. The median home here costs 5 years of the county’s income; in the typical Irish town it costs 5.6. Renting instead, the RTB’s average for County Offaly, €1,198 a month, takes 26% of that income.
Central Bank of Ireland mortgage measures (since January 2023); stamp duty at 1% up to €1 million. Incomes: CSO, 2022. Prices: Property Price Register, 2023–25.
Private rents average €1,198 a month
The RTB’s average monthly rent for new tenancies in County Offaly in 2025 is €1,198.
By size a month, the tick is the typical Irish town
RTB average monthly rent (CSO table RIA02), all property types and sizes, 2025. The RTB doesn’t publish a rent for Rhode on its own, so the grade uses County Offaly’s average.
A home worth Rhode’s median pays €270 a year in Local Property Tax
Offaly County Council charges 15% over the basic rate for 2026. A home worth €282,500, the town’s median sale of 2023–25, falls in band 2.
On each town’s median home towns of 1,000+ in County Offaly, 2026
| Band value on 1 Nov 2025 | A year | A month |
|---|---|---|
| Band 1 up to €240,000 | €109 | €9 |
| Band 2 €240,001–315,000 | €270 | €23 |
| Band 3 €315,001–420,000 | €383 | €32 |
| Band 4 €420,001–525,000 | €492 | €41 |
| Band 5 €525,001–630,000 | €601 | €50 |
| Band 6 €630,001–735,000 | €711 | €59 |
| Band 7 €735,001–840,000 | €820 | €68 |
| Band 8 €840,001–945,000 | €929 | €77 |
| Band 9 €945,001–1,050,000 | €1,038 | €87 |
| Band 10 €1,050,001–1,155,000 | €1,148 | €96 |
The tax goes on what the owner valued the home at on 1 November 2025, for 2026 to 2030, not on a sale price; the bands here are applied to a home worth the town’s median sale. Above €2.1 million there is no band: 0.3% of the value over €2.1 million is added.
Bands: Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Act 2025. Council factors: Department of Housing, LPT allocations 2026. Not part of the grade.
75% of households own their home; 11% rent privately
Census 2022: households by how they hold their home, against the towns of County Offaly and every Irish town. Fewer households rent privately than across County Offaly’s towns (11% against 20%).
Derrinturn sells for €140K more; Daingean for €48K less
The towns around Rhode: their Cost of living Grade, median home (2023–25), RTB rent, and the median home over their county’s household income.
| Town | Grade | Median home | Rent | ÷ income |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode | – | €283K | €1,198 | 5× |
| Daingean | A− | €235K | €1,198 | 4.2× |
| Edenderry | B+ | €265K | €1,270 | 4.7× |
| Rochfortbridge | B+ | €285K | €1,257 | 5× |
| Kinnegad | B+ | €270K | €1,290 | 4.7× |
| Derrinturn | B− | €423K | €1,701 | 5.8× |
| Killucan-Rathwire | B | €317K | €1,257 | 5.5× |
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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Sale prices aren’t valuations. The Property Price Register records what homes sold for, as filed for stamp duty; it isn’t a valuation of any one home. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes that sold, and new homes are filed without VAT, which we add back at 13.5%.
- Rent is for a wide area. The RTB publishes rents for towns, Dublin localities, cities and counties. Where a town has no figure of its own, the page uses its district’s, city’s or county’s, and says so.
- Income is the area’s, not the town’s. The grade divides prices and rents by the county’s median gross household income (CSO, 2022), as every edition uses the wider area’s: a town is set against what households around it earn. The town’s own figure is shown beside it.
- The newest months are thin. Prices run to 2025 and incomes to 2022, so the ratios run high against a same-year basis; they rank towns rather than tell you what a mortgage would cost.
How the Cost of living Grade is worked out, from these figures to the letter
Questions about living costs in Rhode
Is Rhode expensive to live in?
The median home in Rhode sold for €282,500 in 2023 to 2025.
Why does Rhode have no Cost of living Grade?
Rhode has no Cost of living Grade: towns under 1,000 people aren’t graded, but the figures below are still its own.
How much is rent in Rhode?
The RTB puts the average monthly rent for new tenancies in County Offaly at €1,198 in 2025. Over the year it went up 10%.
How much Local Property Tax is paid in Rhode?
A home worth the town’s median sale, €282,500, is in band 2 and pays €270 for 2026: Offaly County Council charges 15% over the basic rate for 2026. The tax goes on the owner’s own valuation at 1 November 2025, so a given home may sit in another band.
How much do you need to earn to buy in Rhode?
To buy the median home, €282,500, with a 10% deposit (€28,250) and a mortgage at the Central Bank’s limit of 4 times income, a first-time buyer needs a gross income of about €64,000. That is more than County Offaly’s median household income of €56,048.
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 · RTB average rents (CSO RIA02), 2024–25 · CSO Geographical Profiles of Income, 2022 · Census 2022 (CSO). 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).