TWENTY TWO THOUSAND GALWAY HOMES VACANT ON CENSUS NIGHT

Date Published: 30-Mar-2012

There were nearly twenty-two thousand empty homes in Galway on Census night last year.Figures released by the Central Statistics Office yesterday show that there were twenty-one thousand, nine hundred and three empty homes across Galway city and county when census forms were being filled by the nation. There were nearly five and a half thousand empty homes in the city area, with sixteen and a half thousand were empty across the rest of the county. Of these, the residents of three thousand and eighty two homes across city and county were temporarily absent on the night; three thousand, four hundred and fifty seven were classified as holiday homes; while there were fifteen thousand, three hundred and sixty four vacant houses and flats. There were twelve thousand, two hundred and four vacant houses in the county, and one thousand, eight hundred and eighty seven in the city; while there were one thousand, four hundred and seventy-five empty flats in the county and one thousand, six hundred and eighty five vacant flats in Galway city.