Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainHomes in Glenealy sell for about €419,600
Fewer than 30 homes sold in Glenealy itself from 2023 to 2025, so that is CSO’s median for its Eircode routing key, A67: town and countryside together, 1,820 sales, against €350,000 in the typical Irish town. Glenealy has no Cost of living Grade: towns under 1,000 people aren’t graded, but the figures below are still its own.
What Glenealy’s housing numbers say
Homes in Glenealy cost more than in the typical Irish town
The median home in Glenealy sold for €419,600 from 2023 to 2025, 20% over the typical Irish town’s €350,000. fewer than 30 homes sold in Glenealy itself on the Property Price Register in 2023 to 2025, so its price is the median for its whole Eircode routing key (A67), town and countryside together. Towns its size ↓
Figures: the Property Price Register and CSO (prices), the RTB (rents), CSO (income, 2022).
Glenealy has no Cost of living Grade
The grade is kept for towns of 1,000 people or more, so Glenealy’s prices and rents are shown without one.
A typical Glenealy home costs 6.5 years of the county’s income
Each dot is a town of 2,500 or more in County Wicklow, set against the county’s median household income before tax, €64,077.
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 Wicklow’s median of €64,077, that is up to €256,000. The town’s median home, €419,600, is €163,600 more than that, before stamp duty of €4,196. Within that reach in County Wicklow: 1 towns, the dearest Arklow (€280K). A second-time buyer on the same income can borrow up to €224,000. The median home here costs 6.5 years of the county’s income; in the typical Irish town it costs 5.6. Renting instead, the RTB’s average for County Wicklow, €1,730 a month, takes 32% 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 €1,730 a month
The RTB’s average monthly rent for new tenancies in County Wicklow in 2025 is €1,730.
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 Glenealy on its own, so the grade uses County Wicklow’s average.
A home worth Glenealy’s median pays €353 a year in Local Property Tax
Wicklow County Council charges 6% over the basic rate for 2026. A home worth €419,600, the town’s median sale of 2023–25, falls in band 3.
On each town’s median home towns of 1,000+ in County Wicklow, 2026
| Band value on 1 Nov 2025 | A year | A month |
|---|---|---|
| Band 1 up to €240,000 | €101 | €8 |
| Band 2 €240,001–315,000 | €249 | €21 |
| Band 3 €315,001–420,000 | €353 | €29 |
| Band 4 €420,001–525,000 | €454 | €38 |
| Band 5 €525,001–630,000 | €554 | €46 |
| Band 6 €630,001–735,000 | €655 | €55 |
| Band 7 €735,001–840,000 | €756 | €63 |
| Band 8 €840,001–945,000 | €856 | €71 |
| Band 9 €945,001–1,050,000 | €957 | €80 |
| Band 10 €1,050,001–1,155,000 | €1,058 | €88 |
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.
69% of households own their home; 11% rent privately
Census 2022: households by how they hold their home, against the towns of County Wicklow and every Irish town. More households rent social housing than across County Wicklow’s towns (18% against 13%).
Newcastle sells for €90K more; Rathdrum for €48K less
The towns around Glenealy: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenealy | – | €420K | €1,730 | 6.5× |
| Rathnew | C− | €420K | €1,730 | 6.6× |
| Ashford | C− | €465K | €1,730 | 7.3× |
| Rathdrum | C | €372K | €1,730 | 5.8× |
| Wicklow | C+ | €405K | €1,633 | 6.3× |
| Newcastle | C− | €510K | €1,730 | 8× |
| Newtownmountkennedy | D | €470K | €1,800 | 7.3× |
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 Glenealy
Is Glenealy expensive to live in?
The median home in Glenealy sold for about €419,600 in 2023 to 2025.
Why does Glenealy have no Cost of living Grade?
Glenealy 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 Glenealy?
The RTB puts the average monthly rent for new tenancies in County Wicklow at €1,730 in 2025. Over the year it went up 6%.
How much Local Property Tax is paid in Glenealy?
A home worth the town’s median sale, €419,600, is in band 3 and pays €353 for 2026: Wicklow County Council charges 6% 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 Glenealy?
To buy the median home, €419,600, with a 10% deposit (€41,960) and a mortgage at the Central Bank’s limit of 4 times income, a first-time buyer needs a gross income of about €94,000. That is more than County Wicklow’s median household income of €64,077.
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).