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The count stood at 8,209 in July 2026. That is 4.6% higher than a year earlier.

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Total adults in emergency accommodation — Dublin

8,209, latest July 2026 (+4.6% year on year, from 7,848).

The count stood at 8,209 in July 2026. That is 4.6% higher than a year earlier. The series peaked at 8,349 in April 2026; the latest figure is 1.7% below that peak. Its low point was 4,054 in May 2021; the latest reading is 102% above that.

Show the numbers (88 periods)
Total adults in emergency accommodation — Dublin, every published period
PeriodValue
July 20268,209
June 20268,216
May 20268,264
April 20268,349
March 20268,347
February 20268,296
January 20268,267
December 20258,184
November 20258,214
October 20258,141
September 20258,065
August 20257,969
July 20257,848
June 20257,755
May 20257,734
April 20257,652
March 20257,537
February 20257,514
January 20257,497
December 20247,320
November 20247,450
October 20247,388
September 20247,313
August 20247,208
July 20247,198
June 20247,111
May 20247,058
April 20247,028
March 20246,999
February 20246,935
January 20246,814
December 20236,754
November 20236,790
October 20236,653
September 20236,425
May 20236,358
April 20236,288
March 20236,137
February 20236,012
January 20235,946
December 20225,793
November 20225,655
October 20225,558
September 20225,356
August 20225,326
July 20225,209
June 20225,258
May 20225,173
April 20224,991
March 20224,886
February 20224,711
January 20224,580
December 20214,489
November 20214,568
October 20214,432
September 20214,287
August 20214,220
July 20214,220
June 20214,069
May 20214,054
April 20214,087
March 20214,093
February 20214,129
January 20214,175
December 20204,158
November 20204,243
October 20204,297
September 20204,251
August 20204,204
July 20204,188
June 20204,173
May 20204,164
April 20204,266
March 20204,515
February 20204,550
January 20204,600
December 20194,268
November 20194,509
October 20194,534
September 20194,370
August 20194,312
July 20194,300
June 20194,356
May 20194,367
April 20194,401
March 20194,315
February 20194,304
January 20194,258

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.

Cite this figure:

Total adults in emergency accommodation — Dublin
8,209 for Dublin, 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
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/dublin/homelessness-total-dublin

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