CSO REPORT EXAMINES HOUSING TRENDS IN GALWAY

Date Published: 04-Sep-2012

Galway City, with a weekly average of 76 euro, charged the highest rent of any local authority in 2011.

That's just one of the findings of a new report from the Central Statistics Office which studies housing in Ireland.

The report entitled 'Roof over our heads' is the fourth of ten profile reports examining the definitive results of Census 2011.

Nationally it shows the average local authority rent increased in 27 of the 34 administrative counties during the inter-censal period.

The report also reveals that rented accommodation was more likely to be located within the urban centres, with Galway city recording a rate of 39.8%, followed by Dublin at 34% and Cork at 28.8%.

Just one in ten homes in the rural areas of Galway County availed of public sewerage facilities in 2011, the lowest of any county.

In rural areas, Galway county had the largest number of households in 2011 connected to a local authority group water scheme at 13,843 rural households.

Around 60 per cent of households in County Galway were one off houses, the highest in the country.

Roscommon (54%) and Mayo (50%) also had a large proportion of this particular type of house.