Interactive map · Republic of Ireland
Where Ireland's unpaid carers are most at risk.
Almost 300,000 people in Ireland provide unpaid care, often while older, poorer or more isolated themselves. This map shows where those pressures pile up, for the charities, HSE planners and home-care providers deciding where support goes next: a Vulnerability score for every neighbourhood in Ireland, built on CSO Census 2022 and Pobal deprivation data.
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Where severe need concentrates
by regionThe share of each region's small areas in Ireland's most-vulnerable tenth.
Lower needGreater need
By the numbers
The scale of unpaid care
How to read it
One map, three levels
1
Regional
Ireland's 8 regions, coloured by average vulnerability: the national picture at a glance.
2
Local
Click any region to drop into its Census small areas and see the spread an average hides.
3
HSE areas
Switch to the 20 HSE areas, ranked by the gap between need and home-support supply — the view providers plan around.