A new report from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has shown that throughout the last three months of 2021, the vacancy rate for dwellings based on metered electricity consumption was 4.3%, meaning that thousands of homes are laying empty around the country.
The report looked at metered electricity consumption of dwellings from data provided by the ESB Networks, using that information to identify what dwellings can be assumed to be vacant through particularly low levels of consumption over a period of at least four consecutive quarters.
Findings from the CSO showed that within quarter four of 2021, the vacancy rate in Ireland for dwellings based on metered electricity consumption was 4.3%.
