For those interested in the effect on housing TLDR: Population increasing at a faster rate than houses are being built. Vacant housing down by a net 12,000 (holiday homes and vacant dwellings).
Vacant homes now account for around 3.89% of houses, though roughly 3% of this is holiday homes (presumably not located in rent pressure zones etc)
> The population of the Republic of Ireland increased by 7.6% in the six years between 2016 and 2022, according to the preliminary results of Census 2022.
> The preliminary results also provide initial figures on the country’s housing stock on 3 April which was 2,124,590, up 6% on 2016.
> There were 16,560 fewer vacant dwellings (-9.0%) in 2022 compared to 2016.
> This does not include holiday homes, of which there were 66,135, compared with 62,148 in 2016.
But the real question that needs to be answered: Has the population of sheep gone up too? Last I checked it was 3.9 million. I want the sheep to people population to be 1:1.
“It is the highest population recorded in a census since 1841 and the first time the population exceeded 5 million since 1851” thats not entirely true being that the figures all the way up to 1921 would have included the whole island of Ireland and today’s census only includes the Republic. So todays population in comparison to the famine era is actually 7 million thereabouts.
5.1 million – 1 bastards
But didn’t they count also the people that were just staying over in Ireland, how does that make sense to include them when they don’t live here 🤔
Only 15 more million to go!
Absolutely mental that the country still hasn’t recovered population since the famine.
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For those interested in the effect on housing TLDR: Population increasing at a faster rate than houses are being built. Vacant housing down by a net 12,000 (holiday homes and vacant dwellings).
Vacant homes now account for around 3.89% of houses, though roughly 3% of this is holiday homes (presumably not located in rent pressure zones etc)
> The population of the Republic of Ireland increased by 7.6% in the six years between 2016 and 2022, according to the preliminary results of Census 2022.
> The preliminary results also provide initial figures on the country’s housing stock on 3 April which was 2,124,590, up 6% on 2016.
> There were 16,560 fewer vacant dwellings (-9.0%) in 2022 compared to 2016.
> This does not include holiday homes, of which there were 66,135, compared with 62,148 in 2016.
But the real question that needs to be answered: Has the population of sheep gone up too? Last I checked it was 3.9 million. I want the sheep to people population to be 1:1.
“It is the highest population recorded in a census since 1841 and the first time the population exceeded 5 million since 1851” thats not entirely true being that the figures all the way up to 1921 would have included the whole island of Ireland and today’s census only includes the Republic. So todays population in comparison to the famine era is actually 7 million thereabouts.
5.1 million – 1 bastards
But didn’t they count also the people that were just staying over in Ireland, how does that make sense to include them when they don’t live here 🤔
Only 15 more million to go!
Absolutely mental that the country still hasn’t recovered population since the famine.