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Transport Omnibus 2016

Small Public Service Vehicles

In 2016, there were 20,804 small public service vehicles licensed to operate. More than half (51.6%) of these were based in Dublin.

Wheelchair accessible taxis and hackneys represented 6.0% (1,254) of the total small public service vehicles in 2016. This is an an increase of 22.9% on the number of those same vehicles in 2015.
In 2016, more than one fifth (22.3%) of all small public service vehicles were 10 years and older while 6.6% were less than two years old.

For long labels below use to display on multiple lines	Distribution of small public service vehicles by age, 2016
<2 years	6.6
2<4 years	8.7
4<6 years	17.0
6<8 years	20.0
8<10 years	25.5
10 years and over	22.3

Table 10.1 Number of small public service vehicles by type, 2010-2016
Year	Hackney	Limousine	Taxi	Wheelchair accessible taxi	Wheelchair accessible hackney	Local area hackney	Total
2010	3,772	1,216	18,920	1,401	*	*	25,309
2011	3,241	1,204	18,101	1,227	4	*	23,777
2012	2,866	1,257	17,750	1,077	14	*	22,964
2013	2,532	1,316	17,137	898	18	*	21,901
2014	2,281	1,437	16,899	889	35	6	21,547
2015	2,081	1,571	16,460	969	51	14	21,146
2016	1,838	1,741	15,961	1,185	69	10	20,804
Source: National Transport Authority
* Not available

Table 10.2 Age profile of small public service vehicle fleet by type, 2016
						Number
Age	Hackney	Limousine	Taxi	Wheelchair accessible taxi	Wheelchair accessible hackney	Total
Under 1 year	70	99	388	108	9	674
1 to < 2 years	47	84	490	64	7	692
2 to < 3 years	82	84	607	80	8	861
3 to < 4 years	80	96	708	56	4	944
4 to < 5 years	141	104	1,222	72	7	1,546
5 to < 6 years	172	76	1,562	167	12	1,989
6 to < 7 years	154	74	2,105	85	7	2,425
7 to < 8 years	146	58	1,479	40	5	1,728
8 to < 9 years	260	177	1,886	65	3	2,391
9 to < 10 years	304	265	2,248	93	3	2,913
10 years and over	392	624	3,266	355	4	4,641
Total	1,848	1,741	15,961	1,185	69	20,804
Source: National Transport Authority

Table 10.3 Number of small public service vehicles by type and county of licensing, 2016
Number and rate
County	Hackney	Limousine	Taxi	Wheelchair accessible taxi	Wheelchair accessible hackney	Total	% of national SPSV fleet
Carlow	20	8	88	12	0	128	0.6
Cavan	42	5	71	17	0	135	0.6
Clare	93	81	163	6	5	348	1.7
Cork	320	178	1,239	75	9	1,821	8.8
Donegal	160	33	151	17	16	377	1.8
Dublin	42	458	9,649	591	2	10,742	51.6
Galway	125	113	582	83	5	908	4.4
Kerry	98	140	205	18	0	461	2.2
Kildare	96	92	567	66	3	824	4.0
Kilkenny	21	11	142	24	1	199	1.0
Laois	29	13	139	14	3	198	1.0
Leitrim	23	4	31	8	0	66	0.3
Limerick	70	97	436	25	1	629	3.0
Longford	22	4	55	6	0	87	0.4
Louth	40	60	432	37	1	570	2.7
Mayo	104	52	125	12	1	294	1.4
Meath	51	92	898	52	2	1,095	5.3
Monaghan	44	13	13	9	1	80	0.4
Offaly	71	13	61	9	3	157	0.8
Roscommon	57	16	38	9	0	120	0.6
Sligo	15	20	118	11	3	167	0.8
Tipperary	140	53	30	4	6	233	1.1
Waterford	24	49	177	16	2	268	1.3
Westmeath	18	20	205	27	0	270	1.3
Wexford	72	52	121	18	4	267	1.3
Wicklow	51	64	225	19	1	360	1.7
Total	1,848	1,741	15,961	1,185	69	20,804	100.0
Source: National Transport Authority

Table 10.4 Number of small public service vehicles by type and main make, 2016
Make	Hackney	Limousine	Taxi	Wheelchair accessible taxi	Wheelchair accessible hackney	Total
Audi	32	55	116	0	0	203
Bentley	0	23	0	0	0	23
BMW	10	145	91	0	0	246
Chevrolet	3	3	91	0	0	97
Chrysler	6	131	65	0	0	202
Citroen	15	2	131	35	0	183
Dacia	5	0	86	0	0	91
Daimler	0	9	0	0	0	9
Fiat	16	8	46	120	4	194
Ford	360	49	1,709	173	19	2,310
Honda	5	0	177	0	0	182
Hyundai	43	12	403	0	0	458
Jaguar	1	18	6	0	0	25
Jeep	0	5	1	0	0	6
Kia	40	6	226	0	0	272
Land Rover	2	22	0	0	0	24
Lexus	3	35	32	0	0	70
Lincoln	0	14	0	0	0	14
Maserati	0	2	0	0	0	2
Mazda	9	1	139	0	0	149
Mercedes-Benz	92	957	482	23	0	1,554
Mitsubishi	4	1	58	0	0	63
Nissan	54	0	426	125	3	608
Opel	35	3	283	25	3	349
Peugeot	28	2	109	329	16	484
Renault	47	4	632	42	3	728
Rolls-Royce	0	21	0	0	0	21
Seat	20	0	40	0	0	60
Skoda	240	36	3,172	0	0	3,448
Ssangyong	9	4	142	0	0	155
Toyota	436	6	5,898	86	4	6,430
Vauxhall	14	1	168	2	1	186
Volkswagen	312	84	1,166	225	16	1,803
Volvo	3	15	33	0	0	51
Other makes	4	67	33	0	0	104
Total	1,848	1,741	15,961	1,185	69	20,804
Source: National Transport Authority
Note: At the time of publication, data for wheelchair accessible taxi and wheelchair accessible hackney was not in the correct columns

Table 10.5 Number of small public service vehicles by county and age of vehicle, 2016
County	Age (years)						Total
County	Under 3	3 ˂ 5	5 < 7	7 < 9	9 < 10	10 and over	Total
Carlow	25	12	24	24	12	31	128
Cavan	16	14	24	28	22	31	135
Clare	36	35	53	84	53	87	348
Cork	228	240	368	321	269	395	1,821
Donegal	50	52	91	55	43	86	377
Dublin	1,084	1,304	2,398	2,140	1,510	2,306	10,742
Galway	76	103	220	185	105	219	908
Kerry	105	73	59	80	55	89	461
Kildare	81	74	194	184	106	185	824
Kilkenny	47	28	28	29	29	38	199
Laois	29	27	52	36	24	30	198
Leitrim	6	8	12	17	7	16	66
Limerick	42	61	120	147	91	168	629
Longford	10	15	10	21	13	18	87
Louth	50	67	110	116	94	133	570
Mayo	30	30	46	55	47	86	294
Meath	119	133	239	200	151	253	1,095
Monaghan	4	6	25	15	13	17	80
Offaly	12	11	19	41	21	53	157
Roscommon	10	11	29	22	18	30	120
Sligo	26	23	26	32	17	43	167
Tipperary	17	25	44	49	39	59	233
Waterford	29	23	58	64	33	61	268
Westmeath	27	33	57	57	43	53	270
Wexford	30	40	42	51	39	65	267
Wicklow	38	42	66	66	59	89	360
Total	2,227	2,490	4,414	4,119	2,913	4,641	20,804
Source: National Transport Authority

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