Methodology/Indicators
Mean price-to-income ratio
housing.price_to_income
Definition
Calculated affordability ratio (method housing.pti.v1): calendar-year mean of HPM02 Mean Sale Price divided by DEA05 mean weekly earnings annualised (×52), Both sexes / 15 years and over. Not an official CSO observation. Observed price and earnings rows remain stored separately and are never overwritten. UI may highlight values above 4.0 (Central Bank threshold) — that threshold is a display rule, not a source field. Named mean (not median) because HPM02 supplies mean sale prices.
- Source
- CSO table HPM02 · Yearly · Open data portal
- Licence
- CSO Open Data
- Value status
- Calculated · What statuses mean
- Geography
- state · county · finest defensible: county. Not shown below that ceiling.
- Unit
- Ratio
Caveats
- Calculated mean price-to-income (housing.pti.v1): calendar-year mean HPM02 sale price ÷ (DEA05 weekly earnings × 52).
- Named mean (not median) because HPM02 supplies mean prices. Observed rows are never overwritten.
- Central Bank 4.0 is a display threshold, not a CSO field.
How to cite
Cite as Ireland's Dashboard calculated series (housing.price_to_income), derived from CSO HPM02 — not as an official CSO observation.