Drogheda hugely outpacing Dundalk in home completions
The number of homes constructed in the Drogheda area in the past two years is almost double the number completed in the Dundalk area, CSO figures show
Latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), show that the number of homes built in the Drogheda eircode region, A92, in the two years to June 2026, are almost double the number of homes completed in Dundalk’s eircode region (A91).
Figures from the CSO in its release, New Dwelling Completions Q2 2026, show that overall in Louth, 925 homes were completed in the first six months of 2026.
It is up from 907 homes in the second half of last year, and also up significantly on the 632 homes completed in Louth in the first six months of last year.
476 homes were completed in Louth in the second quarter (Q2) of 2026, up from 449 in the first quarter (Q1). Of the 476 homes in Q2, 65 were apartments; 384 were scheme houses; and 27 were single houses.
Looking at the number of homes completed in the A91 and A92 eircode regions, 358 were completed in Dundalk (A91) in the first half of 2026, and 622 completed in Drogheda (A92).
In 2025, 648 homes were completed in Dundalk and 1,203 in Drogheda; and in 2024, 453 were completed in Dundalk and 1,042 in Drogheda.
At a Local Electoral Area (LEA) level, the highest number of homes completed in the first six months of this year were in the Drogheda Rural LEA, with 417 completions.
This was followed by Dundalk South with 203 completions. Both the Ardee LEA and the Dundalk-Carlingford LEA had 105 home completions in the first six months of 2026; and Drogheda Urban has the lowest number of completions, with 45 homes completed in the first six months of this year.
Nationally, there were 8,823 new dwelling completions in Q2 2026, a fall of 3.6% on the same three months of 2025.
Apartment completions in Q2 2026 were 2,658, down 12.2% from Q2 2025. There were 4,738 scheme dwelling completions in Q2 2026, up 2% from Q2 2025. The number of single dwellings completed in Q2 2026 was 1,427, down 3.7% from Q2 2025.
More than half of completions (54%) were scheme dwellings, 30% were apartments, and 16% were single dwellings in Q2 2026.
The Local Electoral Area (LEA) with the most completions in Q2 2026 was Cabra-Glasnevin in County Dublin at 465.