Ireland Housing Data
Housing completions vs targets, vacancy, and homelessness figures — CSO, DHLGH
2025 Completions
34,500
+4.5% YoY
2025 Social Housing
7,800
+8.3% YoY
Target Gap
-18,500
vs 53,000/yr target
Year-over-year change
Ireland needs roughly 53,000 new homes a year to meet demand. Completions collapsed to just 4,575 in 2013 — the bottom of the post-crash construction crash — and have climbed most years since, but even 2025's total remains well below that target: the persistent gap that dominates Irish housing politics. "Starts" and social housing figures are only available on a comparable annual basis from 2020. Social housing output is a much smaller number on its own scale, which is why it has its own toggle above rather than sharing an axis with the far larger completions total. Sources: CSO (New Dwelling Completions), DHLGH.
Data sourced from CSO, DHLGH, HSE, NTPF, RTB, CRU, SEAI, An Garda Síochána & Eurostat. Figures may include provisional 2025 estimates.