This is an increase of more than 400 on the September figure of 10,975, of which 3,342, were children and was itself a record high. It represents an almost 30 per cent increase in one year.
Consistently more than half the families in homelessness are headed by lone parents. Last month 882 of the 1,601 families were headed by single-parents, most of them mothers.
The greatest concentration of homelessness is in Dublin where the figures show there were 8,087 homeless, including 2,529 children in October. These numbers compare with 7,785 in September and 6,335 in October 2021. In terms of adults with no children in emergency accommodation, there were 5,320 in October, up from 5,158 in September, and from 4,565 in a year ago – a 16 per cent increase.In Dublin there were 3,673 homeless single adults last month, up from 3,542 in September and from 3,085 in October 2021.
Nationalities of adults recorded last month show 62 per cent of homeless adults were Irish, 21 per cent were from the European Economic Area or UK and 17 per cent were from outside the EEA/UK.
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