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Families in emergency accommodation — South-West

No single total: these measures overlap and mix families with people, so none of them is presented here as "the" figure for this area.

  • Families: 148
  • Adults in families: 215
  • Single-parent families: 102
  • Dependants: 261
Show the numbers (88 periods)
Families in emergency accommodation, every published period
PeriodValue
July 2026148
June 2026145
May 2026146
April 2026149
March 2026137
February 2026128
January 2026118
December 2025107
November 2025113
October 2025109
September 2025102
August 2025105
July 2025103
June 2025101
May 202594
April 202596
March 202598
February 202599
January 202596
December 202498
November 2024103
October 2024104
September 202492
August 202491
July 202495
June 2024101
May 202494
April 202488
March 202483
February 2024101
January 2024103
December 2023105
November 2023107
October 2023105
September 2023103
May 202393
April 202388
March 202377
February 202380
January 202386
December 202279
November 202289
October 202289
September 202283
August 202274
July 202274
June 202274
May 202272
April 202273
March 202264
February 202271
January 202256
December 202155
November 202163
October 202168
September 202160
August 202153
July 202152
June 202146
May 202151
April 202145
March 202145
February 202142
January 202150
December 202050
November 202058
October 202065
September 202068
August 202062
July 202066
June 202068
May 202084
April 202084
March 202094
February 2020103
January 2020111
December 2019109
November 2019119
October 2019125
September 2019124
August 2019131
July 2019143
June 2019135
May 2019132
April 2019137
March 2019125
February 2019122
January 2019108

What these terms mean

Dependants
Children in a family accessing homeless services. DHLGH's own column was briefly retitled 'Number of Child Dependants in Families' (September 2021), which is how this project confirmed it counts children rather than other adult dependants.
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.
  • These measures mix families and people, and must not be summed: Families and Single-parent families count families; Adults in families and Dependants count people, a different unit. Single-parent families is also a subset of Families, not a fourth group alongside it. There is no single total for this breakdown — Total Adults, the region's own headline figure, is not one either, because it excludes dependent children entirely.
  • 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:

Families in emergency accommodation
Caveats: Counts people in emergency accommodation, not all homeless people; Accommodation-type figures overlap and must not be summed; These measures mix families and people, 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-family-composition-southwest

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