Roscommon in Census 2011 - Roscommon County Council

Mortgages
High level of outright ownership in Roscommon
Counties in the Greater Dublin Area had the highest percentage of houses and apartments
where the owner had an existing loan or mortgage.
Meath, where 48.7 per cent of all owner-occupied dwellings had a mortgage, came first in this
category in 2011. Fingal (47.8%) and Kildare (46.7%) also had high rates of households owned
with a loan or mortgage.
The western counties had the largest rate of households where the owner had no loan or
mortgage: almost 45 per cent of houses and apartments in Roscommon were owned outright.
Rise in number of households with a mortgage headed by persons not in employment
The largest growth occurred in Laois where the number of mortgaged dwellings with the
householder out of work rose from 195 in 2006 to 1,186 in 2011, a 508 per cent rise.
Roscommon (467%), Leitrim (418%) and Offaly (413%) also experienced significant rises over
the five year period.
One in seven households in Donegal which were owned with a loan or mortgage had the head
of household recorded as being out of work, making it the worst affected county in the State.
Other counties which were most impacted by the householder being unemployed or looking
for their first job were Wexford (12.8%), Offaly (12.5%) and Monaghan (11.9%).
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown (4.2%) recorded the lowest proportion of mortgaged households
with the head of household out of work in 2011.
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