# CSO

This month

March 2023

# Consumer Price Index

Cost-of-living: Annual rate of inflation rises slightly to 8.5%

The CSO Consumer Price Index rose by 8.5% between February 2022 and February 2023.

6.9k

Mar 16th 2023, 1:08 PM

# CSO

Property prices rise by 6.1% with regional areas rising faster than Dublin

Households paid a median of €305,000 for a residential property in the 12 months to January 2023.

15.0k

Mar 15th 2023, 11:24 AM

# CSO figures

Domestic economy entered 'technical recession' last year but is still up 8.2%

Despite entering a technical recession, the domestic economy grew by 8.2% using the government’s preferred metric.

10.0k

Mar 3rd 2023, 2:49 PM

# energy poverty

SVP report shows number of people unable to heat their homes more than doubled last year

Using data from the CSO, the new report reveals around 377,000 people lived in homes they were unable to adequately heat last year.

4.5k

Mar 1st 2023, 12:13 PM

Last month

February 2023

# CSO

Households €551 worse off due to inflation, while risk of poverty rate increases

If COVID-19 income supports were excluded, the at risk of poverty rate last year would have been 20.5% according to the CSO.

9.8k

Feb 22nd 2023, 5:39 PM

# Cost of Living

Cost-of-living: Annual rate of inflation drops again slightly to 7.8%

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 7.8% between January 2022 and January 2023.

6.6k

Feb 16th 2023, 11:35 AM

# housing figures

24,000 or 30,000 new homes? Leo Varadkar says 30,000 as he backs CSO in housing figures row

Construction Information Services have said that there were only around 24,000 new homes built in 2022. The CSO says it was 30,000.

10.6k

Feb 15th 2023, 6:22 PM

# Housing

Property prices continue to rise but rate of increase is slowing

New data from the CSO on property prices was published today.

9.4k

Feb 15th 2023, 2:09 PM

# Crime

Most perpetrators of sexual offences are known to the victim, new figures show

In a one-year period, 15% of suspects were partners or ex-partners.

5.9k

Feb 15th 2023, 1:47 PM

January

January 2023

# Housing Crisis

Almost one in 20 dwellings in Ireland were vacant in last three months of 2021

Leitrim was the Local Authority with the highest vacancy rate at 10.6% in Q4 2021, while South Dublin had the lowest at 1.%.

9.0k

Jan 31st 2023, 4:27 PM

# Inflation

Consumer prices have increased by 7.7% in the year to January, CSO estimates

The CSO today published the flash estimate of inflation from the EU HICP for Ireland for January.

7.8k

Updated

Jan 31st 2023, 2:29 PM

# st brigid's day

Brigid, Bridget and Bríd: how popular is the saint's name in modern Ireland?

Ahead of the first St Brigid’s Day bank holiday, the CSO has revealed how the name’s popularity has waned in recent years.

15.7k

Updated

Jan 30th 2023, 2:12 PM

# rising costs

Price of wholesale electricity 93.2% higher than in November, CSO figures show

The price of electricity in December 2022 was 10.4% higher than December 2021.

12.8k

Jan 20th 2023, 11:52 AM

# Housing Crisis

House prices surpass boom-era peak as properties outside of Dublin shoot up in value

Prices of dwellings outside of Dublin have gone up 9.8% over 12 months.

19.2k

Jan 18th 2023, 1:51 PM

# Vaccines

Over 70% of workforce have received Covid vaccine and at least one booster, latest data shows

61% of employees have a first booster and 13% of employees in the state had a second booster.

8.0k

Jan 10th 2023, 2:59 PM

# 2022

Time outdoors, electric cars, and cutbacks: CSO releases the year in numbers

The report covers everything from crime to the environment.

10.5k

Jan 3rd 2023, 3:29 PM

Last year

2022

# Energy prices

Average electricity bills rose 14% from 2020 to 2021

Median gas prices dropped slightly in the same time period.

5.7k

Dec 6th 2022, 2:42 PM

# Housing

CSO: Property price jumps higher outside of the capital as growth continues to slow

Prices rose by 10.8% nationally in the year to September.

10.3k

Nov 16th 2022, 1:09 PM

# CSO

There are now more than 62,000 Ukrainian nationals living in Ireland

That’s according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office.

19.9k

Nov 14th 2022, 5:48 PM

# EVs

Number of new electric cars licensed in Ireland jumps by 82% when compared to last year

Between January and October of this year, 14,707 new electric private cars were licensed.

14.6k

Nov 9th 2022, 1:43 PM

# ESRI

Young people argued with parents and siblings more during first year of the Covid pandemic

The ESRI findings are based on an online survey that was carried out in December 2020.

9.8k

Nov 3rd 2022, 5:23 PM

# Staycation

Domestic overnight trips increase three-fold as post-Covid recovery continues

The CSO said the data demonstrates the ongoing recovery in travel after the disruption caused by Covid-19 restrictions.

12.4k

Oct 26th 2022, 4:49 PM

# Consumer Price Index

Annual inflation eases again slightly in September after 38-year high in July

Home heating oil was up 83.8% in the year to September.

8.1k

Oct 13th 2022, 1:01 PM

# CSO

Live register figures increase in every county but Tipperary over 12 months

The seasonally adjusted live register for September was 184,100 people – a decrease of 1,900 from the previous month.

20.1k

Oct 7th 2022, 3:28 PM

# Ukraine War

Number of Ukrainians arriving in Ireland reaches 54,000

The latest data from the CSO showed more than 1,000 people from Ukraine arrived in one week alone in September.

23.7k

Oct 3rd 2022, 3:12 PM

# ageing population

Population of Ireland aged 65 and over projected to double by 2051

The findings are contained in the newly launched Older Persons Information Hub.

12.1k

Sep 30th 2022, 4:43 PM

# great outdoors

Great Outdoors: Close to 30% of the public took up a new outdoor activity since the pandemic

Of those, nearly half have taken on more than one new outdoor activity.

7.3k

Sep 28th 2022, 4:11 PM

# Property Prices

Property Price Index exceeds Celtic Tiger peak but growth slows in July

Residential property prices increased by 13% in the year to July.

13.0k

Sep 14th 2022, 11:42 AM

# Cost of Living

Annual inflation eases slightly from last month's 38-year high

Home heating oil was up 72.9% in the year to August.

6.7k

Sep 8th 2022, 2:48 PM

# CSO

Employment at highest level in 24 years with over 2.5 million working

This is the highest rate since the current series of records began in 1998.

16.3k

Aug 25th 2022, 3:28 PM

# Population

Ireland's population grows at highest rate since 2008 in last 12 months - CSO

The Central Statistics Office estimates Ireland’s population to be 5.1 million.

30.9k

Aug 24th 2022, 1:27 PM

# Refugees

Four in five Ukrainian arrivals to Ireland are women and children

The LEA with the highest rate of Ukrainians relative to its population is Ennistymon in Clare (7.2%)

15.6k

Aug 19th 2022, 1:30 PM

# pandemic

Four in five Covid-19 deaths had at least three medical conditions involved

Diseases of the respiratory system were reported in 5,279 (or 98%) of Covid-19 deaths.

28.7k

Aug 16th 2022, 12:49 PM

# Covid-19

Hundreds of thousands of Long Covid sufferers could cripple health service says Denis Naughten

Denis Naughten TD has called on Government to treat long Covid patients with the same urgency as the initial Covid-19 infections.

27.0k

Aug 15th 2022, 4:16 PM

# energy use

Detached houses use 82% more gas for heating than apartments, CSO finds

The report found that homes with better energy ratings consume more gas than lower-rated dwellings.

17.4k

Aug 8th 2022, 2:16 PM

# Inflation

‘Significant’ price hikes faced by Irish dairy, meat and grain producers

Wholesale electricity prices also increased by 91% in 12 months, according to CSO figures.

14.9k

Jul 22nd 2022, 3:29 PM

# Consumer Price Index

Cost-of-living crisis: Inflation hits 9.1% to reach highest level in 38 years

It’s the largest annual increase since 1984.

27.4k

Jul 14th 2022, 11:30 AM

# factcheck

FactCheck: Are there 16 vacant homes for every homeless person in Ireland?

The claim was made by Cian O’Callaghan last week.

31.7k

Jul 2nd 2022, 9:00 PM

# Safety

Safety concerns given as reason by women for not walking more, survey finds

The survey is the first on travel behaviour carried out by the CSO since the coronavirus pandemic.

18.9k

Jul 1st 2022, 6:11 PM

# vacant property tax

Census shows 166,000 vacant properties in Ireland, with over 48,000 vacant for six years

Vacant property levels have fallen 9% since 2016.

27.1k

Jun 23rd 2022, 1:27 PM