Roscommon in Census 2011 - Roscommon County Council

The growth in the rented sector is reflected in Roscommon. In 2006 2,706 households were
rented (13.1% of the total stock). This had risen to 4,504 households in 2011 (19.5% of total
stock).
Detached houses still dominate
Despite the increase in the number of newly constructed apartments in recent years, the
detached house remains the most common type of accommodation in Ireland.
Just over 40 per cent of occupied dwellings in the State were detached houses in April 2011,
which was similar to the share recorded in 2002 and 2006.
Counties in Connacht featured as having the largest proportion of detached houses with more
than seven out of every ten homes in Galway County, Roscommon, Leitrim and Mayo classified
as this house type.
Strong growth in apartments
The rise of apartments as an accommodation type in Ireland has continued between 2006 and
2011 according to the census. Apartments accounted for 10.9 per cent of all household types in
2011, compared with 9.7 per cent in 2006.
Dublin City had the highest proportion of apartments as a household type at 32.4 per cent,
while Roscommon had the lowest with 2.4 per cent.
Sewerage
Public sewerage facilities were used for disposing the waste water of 1,092,418 households, or
two-thirds of all private dwellings in April 2011. A further 437,652 (27.5%) households used an
individual septic tank while 50,259 (3.2%) households adopted other individual sewerage
systems.
In Roscommon, 60 per cent of households used a septic tank or other individual sewerage
treatment system.
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