City dwellers have higher incomes than people living in countryside, CSO finds

Former taoiseach Leo Varadkar said people in rural Ireland are 'very quick to tell people in urban Ireland that ‘we’re the real workers, we’re the ones paying all the bills, we’re the ones feeding the country’' Photo: Mark Marlow/PA

Household income for those living in cities is significantly higher than that of those living in the most rural areas of Ireland, new figures have shown.

Coming just a few days on from Leo Varadkar’s controversial comments on the rural-urban divide, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has published a detailed breakdown of factors such as income, housing, health and education, broken down by how rural or urban a place is.