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The count stood at 440 in July 2026. That is 7.3% higher than a year earlier.

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Total adults in emergency accommodation — West

440, latest July 2026 (+7.3% year on year, from 410).

The count stood at 440 in July 2026. That is 7.3% higher than a year earlier. The series peaked at 468 in March 2026; the latest figure is 6.0% below that peak. Its low point was 248 in December 2020; the latest reading is 77% above that.

Show the numbers (88 periods)
Total adults in emergency accommodation — West, every published period
PeriodValue
July 2026440
June 2026437
May 2026428
April 2026420
March 2026468
February 2026443
January 2026440
December 2025435
November 2025432
October 2025420
September 2025430
August 2025422
July 2025410
June 2025420
May 2025415
April 2025403
March 2025429
February 2025433
January 2025450
December 2024420
November 2024444
October 2024392
September 2024382
August 2024396
July 2024375
June 2024370
May 2024393
April 2024388
March 2024409
February 2024411
January 2024419
December 2023405
November 2023374
October 2023360
September 2023352
May 2023324
April 2023313
March 2023325
February 2023311
January 2023321
December 2022327
November 2022330
October 2022323
September 2022303
August 2022314
July 2022293
June 2022288
May 2022290
April 2022307
March 2022331
February 2022315
January 2022329
December 2021351
November 2021342
October 2021297
September 2021282
August 2021278
July 2021280
June 2021258
May 2021249
April 2021263
March 2021277
February 2021279
January 2021269
December 2020248
November 2020252
October 2020252
September 2020252
August 2020282
July 2020286
June 2020297
May 2020314
April 2020323
March 2020343
February 2020315
January 2020351
December 2019360
November 2019361
October 2019340
September 2019348
August 2019351
July 2019350
June 2019337
May 2019324
April 2019341
March 2019348
February 2019355
January 2019358

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 Galway: DHLGH publishes homelessness figures for the West region, which wholly contains Galway, not for the county on its own. Published together with: Mayo, Roscommon.

Cite this figure:

Total adults in emergency accommodation — West
440 for West (a wider area than Galway), 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 Galway
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/galway/homelessness-total-west

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