[Article] 15% of all homes vacant - Census

Victor

http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0816/census.html

15% of all homes vacant - Census
Thursday, 16 August 2007 11:32

Figures from Census 2006, conducted in April last year, show that there were 266,000 vacant homes in the State, 15% of the total housing stock.

County Leitrim had the highest percentage of vacant dwellings, at just over 29%, according to the figures from the Central Statistics Office.

The figures also show rapid growth in house building in counties Meath and Fingal, with more than a quarter of all homes in both counties having been built between 2001 and 2006.

AdvertisementOverall, a total of 249,000 occupied homes were built between 2001 and 2006, compared with 155,000 in the previous five-year period.

More than a quarter of the 396,000 one-off houses in rural areas was built since 1996, though they accounted for a slightly smaller share of the total - 27.1% from 28.1% in 2002. Four out of five occupied houses in rural areas were detached houses.

Apartments, flats and bed-sits accounted for more than 10% of occupied private homes at the time of the Census, up from 8.6% four years earlier. The figure for Dublin City was 31%. Owner occupied homes accounted for 74.7% of the total, down from 77.4% in 2002 and continuing a downward trend first seen in the 1990s.

Average weekly rents in private accommodation ranged from almost €275 in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown to less than €115 in Donegal and Leitrim.

One in five homes had access to broadband, with Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown highest with just under 40% and Leitrim lowest at 7.8%. Only four out of ten homes in Limerick City had internet access, the lowest in the state.

http://www.cso.ie/census/Census2006_Volume6.htm

mike65

Pretty damning for Leitrim, its hard to develop an economy when a huge % of the population is absent for most of the year! 8% BB won't help either.

(Slight OT - Limerick seems to have the worst stats of any population centre, highest divorce rate, highest single mums, lowest internet access.)

The state has doubled the number of private homes in 35 years from 726,000 to 1,462,000 which reflects the atomising of the population as much as its growth.

Mike.

Amazotheamazing

Probably becuase 41% of Limerick's city housing is social housing.

westtip

Victor - yes Leitrim has 29% empty housing, sligo has 23% empty housing and in parts - places like Enniscrone for example - although the official figures by electoral district are not out yet it is in excess of 50% vacant housing - yet Sligo county council and Bord Pleanala just granted permission for further 200 homes in Enniscrone - Thye couldn't plan their way out a paper bag.

fricatus

mike65 wrote:

(Slight OT - Limerick seems to have the worst stats of any population centre, highest divorce rate, highest single mums, lowest internet access.)

Amazotheamazing wrote:

Probably becuase 41% of Limerick's city housing is social housing.

Limerick city's population is about 90,000, but only 55,000 actually live in the city council area. The rest live in Cos. Limerick and Clare. They're trying to get a boundary extension at the moment.

Most of the better-off areas of Limerick are outside the city proper, the upshot being that any statistics relating to the city are skewed towards the more "disadvantaged" social groups.

1huge1

Exactly, Limerick is never shown well in these things (and many other things for that matter)
the census like fricatus said is that of limerick city only (which takes into account about half of the city) and well that is 'generally' the worse off half of the city (i.e council estates etc)
All the middle and upper class live in the suburbs like castletroy, raheen etc.