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888 adults in emergency accommodation were counted. That is the region's own published total; the categories below overlap and do not add up to it.

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Emergency accommodation type — South-West

888, latest July 2026.

888 adults in emergency accommodation were counted. That is the region's own published total; the categories below overlap and do not add up to it. Private Emergency Accommodation was the largest single category (686). Next largest was Supported Temporary Accommodation (206). The largest year-on-year movement was Private Emergency Accommodation, 29% higher (686).

Show the numbers (88 periods)
Emergency accommodation type, every published period
PeriodValue
July 2026686
June 2026695
May 2026688
April 2026690
March 2026664
February 2026630
January 2026623
December 2025584
November 2025607
October 2025588
September 2025559
August 2025544
July 2025530
June 2025529
May 2025510
April 2025504
March 2025506
February 2025493
January 2025480
December 2024450
November 2024443
October 2024406
September 2024401
August 2024405
July 2024405
June 2024399
May 2024382
April 2024365
March 2024353
February 2024344
January 2024384
December 2023385
November 2023398
October 2023387
September 2023391
May 2023365
April 2023352
March 2023356
February 2023358
January 2023367
December 2022353
November 2022373
October 2022374
September 2022348
August 2022353
July 2022369
June 2022356
May 2022350
April 2022361
March 2022376
February 2022386
January 2022368
December 2021357
November 2021349
October 2021351
September 2021339
August 2021339
July 2021328
June 2021333
May 2021324
April 2021325
March 2021324
February 2021338
January 2021342
December 2020327
November 2020337
October 2020340
September 2020339
August 2020335
July 2020326
June 2020312
May 2020337
April 2020338
March 2020328
February 2020313
January 2020328
December 2019317
November 2019338
October 2019360
September 2019356
August 2019375
July 2019363
June 2019339
May 2019350
April 2019339
March 2019315
February 2019302
January 2019288

What these terms mean

Total Adults
Adults recorded as accessing homeless services through emergency accommodation in the region during the reporting month, via the Pathway Accommodation and Support System (PASS). Does not include the 'hidden homeless'. Source
Private Emergency Accommodation (PEA)
Commercial emergency accommodation such as hotels and B&Bs, paid for by the local authority on an emergency basis.
Supported Temporary Accommodation (STA)
Emergency accommodation, including hostels, with onsite professional support.
Temporary Emergency Accommodation (TEA)
Emergency accommodation with no, or minimal, onsite support.
Homeless region
One of 9 regions defined under Chapter 6 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, each with a designated Lead Local Authority responsible for the region's Homelessness Action Plan and funding.

Before you use these figures

  • Counts people in emergency accommodation, not all homeless people: These figures count adults and families accessing homeless services through emergency accommodation, recorded through the Pathway Accommodation and Support System (PASS). They exclude people considered the 'hidden homeless' — people in squats, couch-surfing, or staying with family or friends — and do not capture homelessness-prevention work that keeps someone out of the figures entirely. A fall in this number can mean fewer people becoming homeless, or more people being kept out of emergency accommodation by prevention work; the figures alone do not say which.
  • Accommodation-type figures overlap and must not be summed: The counts of people accessing Private Emergency, Supported Temporary, Temporary Emergency and Other Accommodation do not reliably add up to the region's Total Adults figure — checked directly across the full history, they match in only 69% of region-months, and Dublin and the South-West (the two busiest regions) mismatch by up to 22%. This is consistent with people moving between accommodation types within a single reporting month and being counted against more than one. The headline figure shown here is therefore the region's own published Total Adults, not the sum of the four categories below — which is why they will not add up to it.
  • Published under CC-BY-SA 4.0 (ShareAlike): Unlike most sources in this project (plain CC-BY 4.0), DHLGH publishes these figures under CC-BY-SA 4.0. ShareAlike can impose reciprocal licensing obligations on derivative work; check licence compatibility before mixing this dataset into anything distributed under different terms.
  • Citizenship breakdown only available from April 2022: DHLGH added an Irish / EEA-UK / Non-EEA citizenship breakdown to these reports from the April 2022 release onward. It is not available, and is not backfilled, for earlier months.
  • Latest figure: July 2026 — 3 months old: This dataset is published monthly and the publisher hasn't released anything newer. Nothing is missing from this page.
  • Published for homeless region, not for Cork: DHLGH publishes homelessness figures for the South-West region, which wholly contains Cork, not for the county on its own. Published together with: Kerry.

Cite this figure:

Emergency accommodation type
888 for South-West (a wider area than Cork), July 2026
Caveats: Counts people in emergency accommodation, not all homeless people; Accommodation-type figures overlap and must not be summed; Published under CC-BY-SA 4.0 (ShareAlike); Citizenship breakdown only available from April 2022; Latest figure: July 2026 — 3 months old; Published for homeless region, not for Cork
StatsMapped last checked this figure against the publisher's own data file on 18 Sep 2026.
Source: DHLGH Homelessness Reports
https://statsmapped.com/ireland/county/cork/homelessness-accommodation-type-southwest

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