In February, the Grangegorman Development Agency published the fourth edition of Joining Up the Dots – a socio-economic and demographic report on the Grangegorman area. Joining Up the Dots 4 (JUTD4) is the latest chapter in the story of this dynamic Dublin neighbourhood and the people who live, learn, work and play here.
In our second JUTD4 snapshot, we look at the types of housing, tenure and households in Grangegorman. Changes shown are for the period between Census 2016 and Census 2022. You can read the full JUTD4 Grangegorman report at https://ggda.ie/joining-up-the-dots-4
Types of housing
- The proportion of owner-occupied accommodation has remained the same at 25%
- More people in the area are now living in apartments (57%, up from 51%).
- Fewer people are living in houses or bungalows (42%, down from 46%).
- The proportion of bedsits – now a small percentage of the total housing stock – has gone down (now 1%, down from 3%).
- More buildings in the area were occupied (89%, up from 87%).
- Occupancy rates of buildings in the area increased by 5%.
- Vacant dwellings decreased from 1,265 in 2016 to 1,145 in 2022, down by 9%.
Tenure of permanent private housing in the area
- 51% rented from a private landlord (up 8% of all housing in the area)
- 13% owned with a mortgage or loan (up 9%)
- 13% owned outright (up 3%)
- 11% rented from local authority (down 7%)
- 1% rented from voluntary/cooperative housing body (down 16%)
- 1% occupied rent free (down 5%)
Composition of households
- The majority of households (58%) are either one-person households or non-related/non-relationship households.
- The highest household composition remains single-person households at 31%.
- The most notable change between 2016 and 2022 has been the growth of apartment/housing-sharing of two or more non-related people (now 22% of total households, an increase of 29%).
- Married or cohabiting couples make up 20% of households.
- Households with children account for 19% of households.
- The number of households increased at a lower late 4.9%) than the overall growth in population (11.6%), resulting in an increase in average household size (5%) and changes to household compositions.
- A positive change is the decrease by 17% in households with two or more family units which suggests a reduction in overcrowding.
Family cycle stages
- An increase in the number of young couples, older couples and retired families.
- A decrease in the number of families with children of all ages.
- A 26% decrease in the number of pre-school families.
- An 18% decrease the number of early school families
- An 11% decrease in pre-adolescent families.
- A 12% decrease in adolescent families.
To read the full Joining Up the Dots 4 report, go to https://ggda.ie/joining-up-the-dots-4
