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County Carlow ranks as the one of the lowest for number of housing Commencement Notices (residential construction starts) for the first eleven months of 2024.
Dublin City ranks first with 6,724, followed by Fingal 5,483 and South Dublin 4,486. In contrast the bottom three in country is Leitrim 94, Carlow 207, and Longford 245.
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The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has published its monthly data on the number of Commencement Notices (residential construction starts) for November 2024.
There were 1,318 homes commenced in November 2024. For the first eleven months of 2024 (January – November), 54,574 were homes commenced, a significant increase of 84% compared to 29,634 homes in the same period of 2023. This equates to on average 235 homes commenced every working day to the end of November.
In the last 12 months (December 2023 to November 2024) there have been 57,741 homes commenced, an increase of 84% from 31,429 in the prior 12 months (December 2022 to November 2023).
Of the 1,318 homes commenced in November 2024, 48% are scheme dwellings, 19% are apartments and 33% are for one-off units.
Full data on the number of homes commenced, notices and one-off dwellings on a national level and by local authority from 2014 to November 2024 can be downloaded below:
https://www.gov.ie/en/
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