The number of adults accessing emergency accommodation in Kerry has increased again, despite the national figure dropping slightly.
The Department of Housing’s has published its Monthly Homelessness Report for May.
77 adults in Kerry used local authority managed emergency accommodation during the week of 25-31 May 2026, up one on April.
32% of the 17,447 people in emergency homeless accommodation nationally during the last full week of May were children.
There were 146 homeless families in the South West region, which consists of Kerry and Cork, including 261 children.
Over three-in-every-five (62.83%) homeless adults in the South West were men.
Meanwhile, over half (55.13%) were between 25 and 44-years-old, almost 30 per cent (28.9%) were between 45 and 64, and nearly one-in-ten were (8.9%) were aged between 18 and 24.
During that week, more than three-in-every-five (60.94%) homeless adults in Kerry and Cork were Irish citizens, while almost a quarter (24.66%) were from outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
