Northern Ireland House Price Statistics by Electoral Ward, 2005-2024

462 electoral wards across 11 Local Government Districts have annual descriptive price statistics from 2005 to 2024. The Government Digital Service provides metrics like minimum, median, and maximum sale prices, along with the number of verified sales, under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. The data excludes non-arms-length sales, properties with extreme sizes, and very low-value transactions to focus on a consistent subset of the residential market.

Use Cases

• Mapping housing price distributions across electoral wards based on the provided quartile and median statistics.
• Analyzing the volume of residential property transactions over time based on the number of verified sales per ward.
• Identifying wards with the highest and lowest property values based on the reported minimum and maximum sale prices.
• Comparing descriptive price statistics across the 11 Local Government Districts for regional economic analysis.

Strengths

• Covers 20 years of annual data from 2005 to 2024.
• Provides statistics for 462 distinct geographic units (electoral wards).
• Includes multiple descriptive metrics: minimum, quartiles, median, mean, maximum, and transaction count.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description explicitly warns that median and mean prices are not standardized and should not be used to calculate pure price change over time.
• Data is only reported for areas with at least 30 qualifying sales in a year, which may exclude smaller wards.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Aggregated from verified residential property sales, excluding non-arms-length transactions, extreme property sizes, and very low-value sales.

Time Range

2005 to 2024

Freshness

Data is updated annually, covering up to the 2024 calendar year.

Geography

Northern Ireland, specifically 462 electoral wards within 11 Local Government Districts.