Cork population to hit 850k by 2050

A blueprint given to the Government for future growth in Cork has forecasted the population of the city and county will increase from 542,000 to 846,000 by 2050 and has warned significant infrastructure investment will be needed to support this.

The population growth and measures needed to accommodate it are contained in joint proposals from Cork County Council and Cork City Council in a submission to the government’s National Planning Framework.

The submission proposes that the region would take on additional growth in population, housing, and jobs in order to alleviate pressure on Dublin which, the report’s authors say, the capital is no longer capable of sustaining.