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The count stood at 888 in July 2026. That is 24.0% higher than a year earlier.

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Total adults in emergency accommodation — South-West

888, latest July 2026 (+24.0% year on year, from 716).

The count stood at 888 in July 2026. That is 24.0% higher than a year earlier. The series peaked at 902 in June 2026; the latest figure is 1.6% below that peak. Its low point was 483 in April 2021; the latest reading is 84% above that.

Show the numbers (88 periods)
Total adults in emergency accommodation — South-West, every published period
PeriodValue
July 2026888
June 2026902
May 2026896
April 2026897
March 2026861
February 2026831
January 2026820
December 2025777
November 2025799
October 2025778
September 2025743
August 2025738
July 2025716
June 2025718
May 2025700
April 2025695
March 2025688
February 2025680
January 2025663
December 2024637
November 2024636
October 2024605
September 2024592
August 2024588
July 2024596
June 2024594
May 2024574
April 2024558
March 2024543
February 2024569
January 2024584
December 2023582
November 2023590
October 2023584
September 2023577
May 2023557
April 2023559
March 2023562
February 2023578
January 2023585
December 2022564
November 2022595
October 2022592
September 2022565
August 2022573
July 2022585
June 2022555
May 2022547
April 2022549
March 2022570
February 2022586
January 2022552
December 2021528
November 2021531
October 2021534
September 2021512
August 2021504
July 2021492
June 2021492
May 2021495
April 2021483
March 2021486
February 2021503
January 2021503
December 2020485
November 2020504
October 2020501
September 2020532
August 2020529
July 2020514
June 2020502
May 2020511
April 2020511
March 2020550
February 2020572
January 2020578
December 2019548
November 2019592
October 2019608
September 2019592
August 2019583
July 2019575
June 2019550
May 2019552
April 2019556
March 2019534
February 2019532
January 2019514

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:

Total adults in emergency accommodation — South-West
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-total-southwest

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