Council own-source income share — every local authority ranked
Figures as of 2026, published by Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage — Local Authority Budgets. Accessed 2026-10-12.
Colour shows the share of each council's income raised itself, from DHLGH's Local Authority Budgets.
Two or more areas with the same figure share a rank — the next rank is skipped (e.g. two areas tied for 1st means the next entry is ranked 3rd, not 2nd).
Before you use these figures
- Limerick's budget carries the whole national HAP scheme: Limerick City and County Council runs the Housing Assistance Payment Shared Services Centre on behalf of every local authority in the State. The Department does not recoup other councils for HAP rental payments in their own areas — it recoups all landlord costs through Limerick, so the entire national HAP programme passes through Limerick's adopted budget as both expenditure and grant income. The Department's own figures put that programme at EUR 91m in 2016 and EUR 667m in 2020, which accounts for 98% of the rise in Limerick's total expenditure between those two budgets. It is the reason Limerick's expenditure per capita is several times every other council's and its own-source income share is the lowest in the State: both are measuring a national scheme administered here, not services delivered to Limerick residents. These two figures should not be compared with another council's.
- Adopted budget, not actual spend: These figures are each council's ADOPTED annual revenue budget -- what it planned to raise and spend for the year -- not the audited actual outturn. DHLGH's Annual Financial Statements record what was actually spent, but are not published in structured or open form anywhere found in this project's research (checked datacatalogue.gov.ie directly: this collection's own dataset entry records `open_data: No`). A council's actual spending can differ from its adopted budget.
- 8 of 12 candidate years (2015-2026): DHLGH publishes one amalgamated PDF per year. Of the twelve years from 2015 (the first budget under the current 31-authority structure) to 2026, four could not be extracted or reconciled reliably against the PDF's own printed totals and are excluded rather than loaded with uncertain numbers: 2017 and 2019 fail extraction outright; 2018 and 2022 extract but at least one figure does not reconcile against the source's own total. The years shown are not consecutive, so year-on-year change is only available where two directly adjacent years both cleared validation.
- Shown per-capita / as a share, not as raw totals: statsmapped deliberately does not publish each council's raw Gross Expenditure or Total Income here. Dublin City's adopted budget dwarfs Leitrim's mainly because Dublin City is far larger, not because it spends differently per resident -- a raw euro figure would mostly retell a population story. Own-source income share and expenditure per capita are the comparisons that actually distinguish councils' financial positions from their size.
- No expenditure-per-capita figure is published for this council: statsmapped publishes a gross-expenditure-per-capita figure for every local authority except Cork City and Cork County, so this council has one budget measure here where most have two. The gap is in population data, not budget data: CSO's Census 2022 publishes one combined population figure covering both Cork authorities following the 2019 boundary change, not a per-authority split, and statsmapped will not manufacture a split in order to fill the slot. This council's budget figures themselves are complete and are shown above.
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Council own-source income share, every local authority ranked Caveats: Limerick's budget carries the whole national HAP scheme; Adopted budget, not actual spend; 8 of 12 candidate years (2015-2026); Shown per-capita / as a share, not as raw totals; No expenditure-per-capita figure is published for this council StatsMapped last confirmed these figures unchanged on 4 Sep 2026. Source: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage — Local Authority Budgets https://statsmapped.com/ireland/rankings/la-budgets-income-share
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