Homelessness by citizenship — South-East
357, latest July 2026.
357 adults in emergency accommodation were counted. Irish accounted for the largest share (268, 75%). Next largest was EEA/UK (51). The largest year-on-year movement was EEA/UK, 19% higher (51). 1 smaller category had fewer than 20 records at one end of the comparison, where percentage changes move sharply on small numbers.
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 Waterford: DHLGH publishes homelessness figures for the South-East region, which wholly contains Waterford, not for the county on its own. Published together with: Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Wexford.
Cite this figure:
Homelessness by citizenship 357 for South-East (a wider area than Waterford), 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 Waterford 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/carlow/homelessness-by-citizenship-southeast