Dublin
Ireland · euro · share price index, latest 2026-09
The city is a label: every national figure here is Ireland's own, and the cost of living is one survey's answer for one adult, with its method and its year.
A budget built from what members of the public say a household needs for a decent minimum.
€2,726.01a month · 2026
Excluding housing €1,156.18
Monthly minimum essential standard, one working-age adult living alone, urban Ireland, full-time on the minimum wage, renting privately (€629.08 a week).
What the figure is made of
Housing: private rent, one-bedroom flat · €1,569.79 · 57.6%All 13 parts
- Housing: private rent, one-bedroom flat€1,569.79 57.6%
- Food€260.82 9.6%
- Social inclusion and participation€241.67 8.9%
- Household energy€144.95 5.3%
- Transport€144.39 5.3%
- Personal care€76.01 2.8%
- Clothing€68.25 2.5%
- Communications€54.17 2.0%
- Household goods€48.23 1.8%
- Savings and contingencies€43.33 1.6%
- Personal costs€39.22 1.4%
- Household services€22.23 0.8%
- Health and insurance, net of the medical card€12.91 0.5%
How it has changed since 2019
Dublin's minimum income rose 27% from 2019 to 2025, faster than prices, while what a person in Ireland spends on average rose 38%.
The whole record
Stock market
At 231 in September 2026, more than double its 2015 level, in euros and before inflation.
House prices, after inflation
46% above 2010, and still under the 2007 peak.
The economy
- 2.2%
- €2,447 a month
- $106,310
- 4.6%
- 83 years
What the economy is made of
What the country produces, which is what most people there work in; not which companies move the stock market.
How this is calculated
- Minimum income standard
- Minimum Essential Standard of Living (MESL) is Ireland's own method: Members of the public agree what a household needs for a minimum acceptable standard of living; the budget is priced. €629.08 a week × 52 ÷ 12. Housing is a one-bedroom flat at 90% of the Dublin average rent. It is not interchangeable with another country's survey, which is why no other city's figure sits beside it.
- Prices
- No carry-forward. The survey (2026) is not older than Ireland's latest CPI year (2025), so nothing is carried: a year of inflation not yet published is not guessed. World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average.
- In euros
- Ireland uses the euro: no conversion. the euro.
- Change since 2019
- Each series divided by its 2019 value. Prices: World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average. Spending: World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CN ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, current local currency, household final consumption divided by population, per month. A single adult in full-time minimum-wage work, urban, renting privately at 90% of the Dublin average one-bed rent in every year; the basket was reviewed in 2020 and 2026.
- Stock market
- OECD via FRED SPASTT01IEM661N, monthly, 2015 = 100, in euros and before inflation, on a logarithmic scale: equal distance is equal percentage change. Latest 2026-09.
- House prices, after inflation
- BIS via FRED QIER628BIS, quarterly, 2010 = 100. Indexed to Ireland's own 2010, so only the direction compares across countries, never the level. Latest 2026-Q1.
- Sources
Vincentian MESL Research Centre, MESL 2026: Annual Update Report · Table 3, Summary of MESL Income Adequacy Assessment: Single Adult, urban, employed (NMW) €629 · retrieved 17 Oct 2026
MESL 2026 Appendix Tables · Appendix Tables 1A (core weekly expenditure budget, single adult), 8A (urban employed scenarios: €629.08 total, €362.26 housing) and 22A (private rent costs) · retrieved 17 Oct 2026
Next release: MESL 2027 (annual update)
World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CD ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, ECB annual average · World Bank NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD · World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · World Bank SP.DYN.LE00.IN · World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · World Bank NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.MANF.ZS · derived: 100 less agriculture, industry and services. Taxes less subsidies is 100 less the three sectors.