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The count stood at 638 in July 2026. That is 14.1% higher than a year earlier.

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Total adults in emergency accommodation — Mid-East

638, latest July 2026 (+14.1% year on year, from 559).

The count stood at 638 in July 2026. That is 14.1% higher than a year earlier. The series peaked at 651 in January 2026; the latest figure is 2.0% below that peak. Its low point was 254 in January 2019; the latest reading is 151% above that.

Show the numbers (88 periods)
Total adults in emergency accommodation — Mid-East, every published period
PeriodValue
July 2026638
June 2026636
May 2026623
April 2026636
March 2026634
February 2026639
January 2026651
December 2025609
November 2025618
October 2025591
September 2025584
August 2025573
July 2025559
June 2025543
May 2025546
April 2025557
March 2025539
February 2025543
January 2025536
December 2024510
November 2024520
October 2024511
September 2024518
August 2024499
July 2024508
June 2024512
May 2024505
April 2024506
March 2024469
February 2024447
January 2024438
December 2023417
November 2023427
October 2023416
September 2023421
May 2023424
April 2023436
March 2023440
February 2023423
January 2023437
December 2022441
November 2022428
October 2022428
September 2022421
August 2022401
July 2022410
June 2022414
May 2022410
April 2022405
March 2022385
February 2022385
January 2022344
December 2021340
November 2021352
October 2021324
September 2021318
August 2021305
July 2021306
June 2021322
May 2021327
April 2021350
March 2021338
February 2021335
January 2021329
December 2020310
November 2020323
October 2020313
September 2020295
August 2020303
July 2020316
June 2020309
May 2020318
April 2020335
March 2020317
February 2020312
January 2020301
December 2019310
November 2019322
October 2019319
September 2019316
August 2019327
July 2019306
June 2019294
May 2019294
April 2019303
March 2019283
February 2019280
January 2019254

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 Wicklow: DHLGH publishes homelessness figures for the Mid-East region, which wholly contains Wicklow, not for the county on its own. Published together with: Kildare, Meath.

Cite this figure:

Total adults in emergency accommodation — Mid-East
638 for Mid-East (a wider area than Wicklow), 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 Wicklow
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/kildare/homelessness-total-mideast

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