Third quarter of this year saw 275 dwelling completions in Louth

There were 275 dwelling completions in Louth in the third quarter of this year, according to figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

In its release, New Dwelling Completions Q3 2023, the CSO reveals that 45 dwellings were completed in the second quarter of this year (Q1) and 59 in the third quarter (Q3) in Dundalk.

Add to that the 48 dwellings from quarter one of this year and the Dundalk area has had 152 completions so far this year. 

Looking at Louth overall, in the area covered by Louth County Council, 198 dwellings were completed in Q2 of this year and 275 dwellings were completed in Q3. 

Add to that 176 dwellings for quarter 1 and that gives a total of 649 completions for the first three quarters of this year.

Of the 275 dwellings completed in Q3 2023, 22 were single houses; 144 were scheme houses; and 109 were apartments. 

The CSO release also provides some data at a local electoral area level. 34 dwellings were completed in Dundalk-Carlingford and 50 in Dundalk South.

27 were completed in Ardee; 90 in Drogheda Rural; and 74 in Drogheda Urban.

Nationally, there were 8,452 new dwelling completions in Quarter 3 (Q3) 2023, an increase of 14.4% on the same three months of 2022.

Apartment completions rose 47.3% from Q3 2022 to Q3 2023 to stand at 3,373 this quarter and accounted for just under four in ten (39.9%) of all completions. Scheme dwellings rose by 1.5% to 3,627, while single dwellings fell 4.7% from 1,524 in Q3 2022 to 1,439 in Q3 2023.

The region with the biggest relative increase in the twelve months to Q3 2023 was Dublin (36.7%) with rises also in the Midlands (25.9%), Border (14.9%), Mid-West (13.8%), West (3.1%), and Mid-East (0.3%) regions. There was a decrease in completions in the South-West (-11.8%) and South-East (-0.6%) over the same period.