Income Levels Northern Ireland

The median income at which half of people are above and half are below in northern ireland is 400 per week before housing costs bhc or 361 after housing costs ahc.

Income levels northern ireland. Within northern ireland itself further comparisons can be drawn between levels of income in the two religious communities. In ireland the average household net adjusted disposable income per capita is usd 25 310 a year lower than the oecd average of usd 33 604. Poverty in northern ireland the most recent statistics published on 14 may 2020 are for the period april 2018 to march 2019. Households in dún laoghaire rathdown had the highest median income in 2016 at 66 203 followed by fingal 58 795 and kildare 54 472 see map 1 1 and table 1 1.

Income at the 10th percentile the income level 10 of people are below after housing costs is around half this while income at the 90th percentile is almost double the median. Median gross weekly earnings for full time employees in april 2020 decreased by 1 from 535 in 2019 to 529 in 2020. N ew figures from the households below average income hbai report show that 58 of individuals in northern ireland had a household income below the northern ireland mean income of 497 a week. The median income at which half of people are above and half are below in northern ireland is 400 per week before housing costs bhc or 361 after housing costs ahc.

Northern ireland is the most equal part of the united kingdom which is a relatively unequal country when compared to other european countries. Households with the lowest incomes were in donegal 32 259 leitrim 34 800 and longford 34 892. Protestants have traditionally earned higher incomes than catholics although a comparison of income statistics from 1988 87 and 1990 91 show that the gap in income levels between the two has reduced. Poverty levels and trends in england wales scotland and northern ireland despite the steady decrease over time of child poverty pensioner poverty and poverty rates for disabled people in the four parts of the uk the trend in most parts of the uk is that these poverty rates have started increasing with the exception of northern ireland which has seen its poverty rate drop in recent years.

At that time around 350 000 19 people in northern ireland lived in relative income poverty before housing costs including approximately.