Roscommon in Census 2011 - Roscommon County Council

Permanent private households in Roscommon
by sewerage facility, 2006 and 2011
Public
scheme
Individual
septic tank
Other
individual
treatment
Other
No sewerage
facility
Not stated
2006 6776 12680 522 81 112 453
2011 8,653 13,088 1,117 92 61 590
Leitrim (33.3%) had the highest proportion of rural households connected to the local authority sewerage
network in 2011, followed by Wicklow (27.9%) and Kildare (25.8%).
Just one in ten homes in the rural areas of Galway County availed of public sewerage facilities in 2011,
the lowest of any county. Roscommon and Monaghan (both 16.0%) and Wexford (16.4%) also recorded
low rates of rural households with access to public sewerage schemes.
Overall, there was an 11.8 per cent increase in the number of households using public sewerage in the
rural areas of the State since April 2006. Counties showing the largest increases since 2006 were
Roscommon (39%) and Mayo (30.6%).
Water supply
Three-quarters of the occupied 1,649,408 permanent private households in April 2011 were
connected to the public mains piped water supply. Of the remaining households, 9 per cent
were connected to a local authority group water scheme and 12.9 per cent were connected to
a private source (group and other).
In Roscommon, the picture is similar, with 63.3 per cent of households connected to the public
mains.
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