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The count stood at 782 in July 2026. That is 32.8% higher than a year earlier.

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Total adults in emergency accommodation — Mid-West

782, latest July 2026 (+32.8% year on year, from 589).

The count stood at 782 in July 2026. That is 32.8% higher than a year earlier. That is the highest value in the published series, which begins in January 2019. Its low point was 274 in December 2020; the latest reading is 185% above that.

Show the numbers (88 periods)
Total adults in emergency accommodation — Mid-West, every published period
PeriodValue
July 2026782
June 2026752
May 2026748
April 2026730
March 2026746
February 2026736
January 2026716
December 2025686
November 2025674
October 2025635
September 2025619
August 2025601
July 2025589
June 2025589
May 2025587
April 2025583
March 2025605
February 2025600
January 2025586
December 2024547
November 2024551
October 2024533
September 2024532
August 2024522
July 2024517
June 2024499
May 2024484
April 2024489
March 2024478
February 2024475
January 2024445
December 2023426
November 2023430
October 2023406
September 2023411
May 2023402
April 2023405
March 2023412
February 2023409
January 2023414
December 2022419
November 2022425
October 2022425
September 2022387
August 2022391
July 2022374
June 2022373
May 2022359
April 2022341
March 2022330
February 2022327
January 2022321
December 2021308
November 2021300
October 2021282
September 2021299
August 2021283
July 2021275
June 2021281
May 2021286
April 2021288
March 2021284
February 2021293
January 2021295
December 2020274
November 2020287
October 2020289
September 2020291
August 2020291
July 2020289
June 2020291
May 2020300
April 2020330
March 2020331
February 2020347
January 2020341
December 2019335
November 2019369
October 2019345
September 2019324
August 2019323
July 2019343
June 2019332
May 2019341
April 2019331
March 2019347
February 2019349
January 2019338

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Limerick: DHLGH publishes homelessness figures for the Mid-West region, which wholly contains Limerick, not for the county on its own. Published together with: Clare.

Cite this figure:

Total adults in emergency accommodation — Mid-West
782 for Mid-West (a wider area than Limerick), July 2026
Caveats: Counts people in emergency accommodation, not all homeless people; Accommodation-type figures overlap and must not be summed; Citizenship breakdown only available from April 2022; Published under CC-BY-SA 4.0 (ShareAlike); Latest figure: July 2026 — 3 months old; Published for homeless region, not for Limerick
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/clare/homelessness-total-midwest

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