The Mid-West is a strategic planning area within the Southern Region in Ireland.

It is a NUTS Level III statistical region of Ireland (coded IE051).

[1] The constituent local authorities are the councils of the counties of Clare and Tipperary and the city and county of Limerick, which each send representatives to the Southern Regional Assembly, forming the Mid-West Strategic Planning Area Committee.

The Shannon Free Zone, Shannon Airport, Shannon Estuary Ports, National Technology Park Limerick and major educational institutions such as the University of Limerick and Limerick Institute of Technology are major drivers of the regional economy with growth prospects in Biotechnology and medical technology, ICT, aerospace, tourism agribusiness and logistics.

The Clare Marts in Ennis is a major trading post of livestock nationally.

The plains of East Limerick are part of Ireland's Golden Vale that stretch from Limerick City into County Tipperary According to the CSO, the mid-west in 2016 had the lowest value of land sold in Ireland of €16.5 million.