About One Million Homes
One Million Homes is an independent project tracking Ireland's housing shortfall. We show where delivery is failing, where it is working, and what that means for the people who need to live here.
In the Media
New housing data tool reveals stark regional disparities — from 1,800+ year waits in parts of Dublin to under a decade elsewhere.
11 March 2026
The Last Word with Matt Cooper discusses the new housing data tool and what the wait-time figures mean for communities.
11 March 2026
The Hard Shoulder discusses the new tool calculating how long it would take first-time buyers to get a home in their area.
11 March 2026
Castleisland and Listowel rank among Ireland's worst areas for new-home wait times.
12 March 2026
Celbridge faces a 337-year wait — only 17 homes built last year for 5,741 people who need them.
13 March 2026
North Cork profile: nearly 10,000 without homes and a 43-year wait in the Fermoy Municipal District.
16 January 2026 Drogheda LifeDrogheda Rural leads Ireland with an 8-year wait — the fastest home building rate in the country, with Louth up 24% in 2025.
20 March 2026 Waterford News & StarWaterford wait times span 23 years in Tramore to 137 in Lismore — Dungarvan sits at 99, with Waterford City South down 47% on commencements.
22 April 2026Why One Million?
Ireland has two million 18-44-year-olds, plus hundreds of thousands more who left over the last two decades and would come back if they could house themselves here.
Meeting that demand takes one million homes in the next ten years. Half clears the backlog: the last decade added 750,000 net new jobs but only 200,000 new homes — a 550,000-home gap. The rest covers the 750,000-to-one-million jobs expected in the decade ahead.
Every new home tends to bring two children, which creates more demand a decade later. Scale that forward: a million homes a decade, two million children, two million more homes per generation, four million in the one after.
By 2045, that is eight million people, 4.5 million homes (the EU average of 50 per 100), six million under 45, and four million under 18.
A young country where young people own homes, and where villages, towns, and parishes can grow.
Why this exists
Ireland does not have a single housing crisis. It has dozens of local ones.
They move at different speeds, have different causes, and hit different people. National averages flatten all of that. This project makes the differences visible.
What we do
We compile and publish local-authority-level data on housing need, delivery, and trend over time.
We pay close attention to areas that consistently under-perform, and to the ones doing better than expected. What is working? What isn't?
Our stance
Housing supply is a practical problem: something to be measured, compared, and improved. Transparency makes that possible.
Who is behind it?
A small group of analysts and engineers based in Ireland, working independently.
We care about housing because it shapes family formation, labour mobility, community stability, and long-term economic health.
An open invitation
If you work in a local authority or housing body, or hold data we should be using — get in touch.
If you disagree with our analysis, tell us. Accuracy and clarity matter more than being right first time.
County & LEA Dashboards
A ten-panel view of housing, demographics, and finance for every county and local electoral area. Tune the assumptions — job demand, ownership targets, SME credit, apprentices, infrastructure — then share the link.
Open Data Pack
Every processed dataset behind this site is available to download — for research, journalism, policy, or your own work.
If you use this data, please cite: One Million Homes (2026). Housing supply and access data for Ireland. onemillionhomes.ie
Boundary Files (TopoJSON)
All data is CC BY 4.0. Full source documentation in the methodology file.