Airbnbs in Ireland

I was reading this Guardian article the other day where they produced maps showing the number of Airbnb listings per 100 dwellings. I thought it was really interesting and I hadn’t seen Airbnb data mapped like that before. I had a few hours to spare yesterday so I set about replicating their method for Ireland. I used the 2016 census electoral divisions (to get the household numbers) and data for Ireland from Inside Airbnb.  I think at best this data is questionable because from the reading I’ve undertaken it seems to still list properties that were briefly on Airbnb a number of years ago and have long since been removed however this is the only data available so I went with it.

Below is the map, it was made with a combination of Bash, GDAL, QGIS, LibreOffice Calc and Illustrator.

Airbnbs per 100 Dwellings in Ireland
Airbnbs per 100 Dwellings in Ireland