Neighbourhoods · Dublin City · last 24 months · 162 electoral divisions

Dublin City's neighbourhoods in numbers

Data updated 26 Sept 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness

5,522 planning applications were lodged across 162 electoral divisions in the last 24 months — 24.5 per 1,000 households. 14% sought retention for something already built; 10% of decisions were refusals. Every table below ranks the neighbourhoods on one of those, and every row is a page.

24.5

applications per 1,000 households

48%

household works

14%

retention · built first

10%

of decisions refused

26%

went through further information

Busiest Extending Built first Refusals Slowest Further info Appeals Building 12 months 24 months

All Dublin Dublin City Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Fingal South Dublin

Where the council asks for more 72 ranked

Share of decisions that went through a further-information request first. Ranked only where the neighbourhood has at least 20 decisions in the window. Top: Inns Quay B (56%); bottom: Walkinstown B (4%).

#	Neighbourhood	went through FI	Decided	Households	Retention	Refused	Median days
1	Inns Quay B	56%	25	1,797	29%	8%	94
2	Arran Quay B	48%	29	1,705	6%	3%	62
3	Clontarf West C	45%	42	1,749	20%	2%	64
4	Merchants Quay B	45%	22	1,713	32%	18%	62
5	North City	43%	68	2,187	16%	9%	63
6	Terenure B	43%	21	1,502	6%	5%	64
7	Beaumont B	41%	22	1,532	8%	0%	55
8	Saint Kevin's	38%	58	1,986	21%	22%	56
9	Royal Exchange B	37%	35	618	12%	14%	55
10	North Dock B	36%	55	3,514	7%	7%	56
11	Pembroke West A	36%	55	2,228	5%	9%	60
12	Whitehall D	36%	22	1,145	10%	0%	55
13	Mansion House B	35%	54	330	15%	19%	55
14	Clontarf East D	35%	43	1,043	9%	5%	57
15	Clontarf West D	35%	26	1,096	13%	8%	55
16	Royal Exchange A	34%	53	1,679	27%	25%	58
17	Mansion House A	34%	38	1,662	14%	11%	55
18	Cabra East A	34%	29	2,584	18%	3%	55
19	Rathmines East D	34%	29	1,134	18%	14%	55
20	Rathmines West B	33%	33	1,793	19%	21%	55
21	Beaumont C	32%	41	1,327	18%	0%	55
22	Pembroke East D	32%	37	1,939	2%	5%	55
23	Ballygall C	31%	26	1,323	8%	4%	54
24	Rathfarnham	30%	37	1,991	17%	8%	55
25	Rotunda A	30%	20	2,143	15%	10%	55
26	Rathmines West F	30%	20	1,331	15%	25%	55
27	Harmonstown B	30%	23	1,022	13%	9%	55
28	Rathmines East A	29%	59	2,227	2%	20%	55
29	Pembroke West B	29%	42	1,400	2%	19%	55
30	Pembroke East A	29%	38	2,099	4%	11%	55
31	Whitehall A	29%	24	1,072	11%	8%	55
32	Beaumont A	27%	22	1,012	12%	18%	55
33	Grange D	27%	22	1,467	17%	9%	55
34	Pembroke West C	26%	65	1,945	11%	8%	55
35	Wood Quay B	26%	23	1,847	15%	17%	62
36	Rathmines West E	25%	28	1,544	27%	18%	55
37	Crumlin D	24%	41	1,661	21%	17%	55
38	Kilmainham C	24%	29	2,085	22%	21%	55
39	Pembroke East E	24%	34	1,511	17%	15%	57
40	Rathmines West C	24%	21	1,119	22%	19%	62

Every council on the same measure 31

The 31 councils, same window, same rule. No per-household figures outside Dublin: the census spine is loaded for the Dublin region only.

#	Council	went through FI	Applications	Retention	Refused	Median days
1	Monaghan	63%	1,297	19%	7%	97
2	Roscommon	58%	1,353	22%	12%	98
3	Carlow	52%	923	18%	8%	83
4	Offaly	50%	1,623	21%	9%	77
5	Kilkenny	46%	1,889	22%	7%	63
6	Kerry	45%	2,635	30%	12%	63
7	Cavan	45%	1,612	24%	5%	58
8	Westmeath	44%	1,366	20%	12%	60
9	Kildare	43%	3,375	25%	20%	61
10	Mayo	43%	2,731	17%	7%	60
11	Limerick	42%	2,823	20%	11%	61
12	Wicklow	40%	2,778	21%	14%	54
13	Waterford	40%	2,241	21%	11%	57
14	Louth	40%	2,078	29%	15%	52
15	Laois	40%	1,961	23%	7%	55
16	Tipperary	39%	3,074	30%	4%	55
17	Meath	38%	3,475	20%	13%	55
18	Wexford	37%	2,874	27%	16%	54
19	Longford	37%	611	18%	14%	50
20	Leitrim	35%	509	28%	4%	53
21	Galway County	31%	3,895	24%	13%	54
22	Donegal	29%	5,083	24%	7%	50
23	Clare	28%	2,414	20%	6%	55
24	Sligo	28%	1,142	24%	7%	52
25	Dublin City	26%	5,531	14%	10%	55
26	Galway City	26%	692	27%	14%	55
27	Fingal	24%	3,417	21%	22%	54
28	South Dublin	21%	2,349	15%	12%	49
29	Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown	13%	3,871	11%	13%	52
30	Cork County	0%	6,803	21%	8%	66
31	Cork City	0%	536	18%	6%	62

How it is counted

A neighbourhood is a CSO electoral division; its households and population are the 2022 census totals of the small areas inside it. Every application, appeal and commencement notice is placed in the division its point falls in.
Household works are applications whose description says extension, attic, dormer, porch, garden room, garage conversion and the like, and does not say apartments, units, commercial, retail or office.
Retention is an application whose type or description says retention — permission for something already built. Its grant rate is shown where at least ten were decided.
Decisions count grants and refusals only; invalid, withdrawn and undecided applications are left out of every rate. Days are from the council’s receipt date to its decision date.
A rate is printed only where the neighbourhood has at least 20 of the thing being rated in the window; smaller ones show counts and are not ranked.

Sources: National Planning Application Database (NPAD), CSO Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics, An Coimisiún Pleanála case list, Building Control Management System commencement notices · fetched 26 Sept 2026, 03:36

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
National Planning Application Database (NPAD)	CC-BY-4.0	26 Sept 2026, 03:36	open
CSO Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics	CC-BY-4.0	26 Sept 2026, 03:36	open
An Coimisiún Pleanála case list	CC-BY-4.0	26 Sept 2026, 03:36	open
Building Control Management System commencement notices	CC-BY-4.0	26 Sept 2026, 03:36	open

Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 26 Sept 2026.

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