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In 2018, there were 20,733 small public service vehicles licensed to operate in the state. More than half (52.6%) of these were based in Dublin.

Wheelchair accessible taxis and hackneys represented 10.7% (2,220) of the total small public service vehicles in 2018. This is an increase of 42.8% on the number of the same vehicle type in 2017.
In 2018, half (50.3%) of all small public service vehicles were aged between 5 and 9 years, while 7.1% were less than two years old.

For long labels below use to display on multiple lines	Distribution of small public service vehicles by age, 2018
<2 years	7.1
2<4 years	14.7
4<6 years	21.2
6<8 years	23.3
8<10 years	16.0
10 years and over	17.7

Table 10.1 Number of small public service vehicles by type, 2012-2018
Year	Hackney	Limousine	Taxi	Wheelchair accessible taxi	Wheelchair accessible hackney	Local area hackney	Total
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
2017	1,631	1,894	15,490	1,471	84	11	20,581
2018	1,477	1,959	15,064	2,115	105	13	20,733
Source: National Transport Authority
* Not available

Table 10.2 Age profile of small public service vehicle fleet by type, 2018
						Number
Age	Hackney	Limousine	Taxi	Wheelchair accessible taxi	Wheelchair accessible hackney	Total
Under 1 year	35	92	271	160	14	572
1 to < 2 years	71	173	487	157	14	902
2 to < 3 years	110	150	838	190	14	1,302
3 to < 4 years	110	147	1,317	158	11	1,743
4 to < 5 years	174	135	1,619	182	12	2,122
5 to < 6 years	121	134	1,705	312	5	2,277
6 to < 7 years	195	112	1,853	347	6	2,513
7 to < 8 years	179	85	1,821	213	13	2,311
8 to < 9 years	154	80	1,867	77	4	2,182
9 to < 10 years	94	61	956	30	4	1,145
10 years and over	247	790	2,330	289	8	3,664
Total	1,490	1,959	15,064	2,115	105	20,733
Source: National Transport Authority

Table 10.3 Number of small public service vehicles by type and county of licensing, 2018
Number and rate
County	Hackney	Limousine	Taxi	Wheelchair accessible taxi	Wheelchair accessible hackney	Total	% of national SPSV fleet
Carlow	11	8	81	19	0	119	0.6
Cavan	37	5	66	19	2	129	0.6
Clare	76	97	148	8	9	338	1.6
Cork	264	205	1,165	116	13	1,763	8.5
Donegal	134	36	142	20	19	351	1.7
Dublin	33	522	9,125	1,223	3	10,906	52.6
Galway	100	109	543	140	4	896	4.3
Kerry	81	171	188	25	0	465	2.2
Kildare	77	100	540	91	4	812	3.9
Kilkenny	17	13	125	24	5	184	0.9
Laois	25	15	138	47	3	228	1.1
Leitrim	17	4	30	7	1	59	0.3
Limerick	53	125	404	41	2	625	3.0
Longford	19	7	50	8	1	85	0.4
Louth	32	70	405	39	2	548	2.6
Mayo	71	53	114	20	3	261	1.3
Meath	42	93	877	99	3	1,114	5.4
Monaghan	37	12	10	10	4	73	0.4
Offaly	58	18	61	10	3	150	0.7
Roscommon	48	14	34	18	1	115	0.6
Sligo	11	25	107	13	4	160	0.8
Tipperary	118	67	31	5	10	231	1.1
Waterford	22	55	162	23	2	264	1.3
Westmeath	14	21	198	39	0	272	1.3
Wexford	55	47	112	23	6	243	1.2
Wicklow	38	67	207	28	1	341	1.6
Unknown			1			1	0.0
Total	1,490	1,959	15,064	2,115	105	20,733	100.0
Source: National Transport Authority

Table 10.4 Number of small public service vehicles by type and main make, 2018
Make	Hackney	Limousine	Taxi	Wheelchair accessible taxi	Wheelchair accessible hackney	Total
Audi	18	60	111	0	0	189
Beauford	0	16	0	0	0	16
Bentley	0	15	0	0	0	15
BMW	8	164	71	0	0	243
Chevrolet	2	3	41	0	0	46
Chrysler	1	113	20	0	0	134
Citroen	6	2	84	53	1	146
Dacia	8	0	183	0	0	191
Daimler	0	5	0	0	0	5
Fiat	8	4	23	61	5	101
Ford	305	69	1,296	357	39	2,066
Honda	2	0	135	0	0	137
Hyundai	29	15	396	0	0	440
Jaguar	0	23	8	0	0	31
Jeep	0	5	0	0	0	5
Kia	23	1	231	0	0	255
Land Rover	1	16	0	0	0	17
Lexus	0	24	56	0	0	80
Lincoln	0	7	0	0	0	7
Maserati	0	2	0	0	0	2
Mazda	8	1	99	0	0	108
Mercedes-Benz	68	1,154	473	11	0	1,706
Mitsubishi	5	1	51	0	0	57
Nissan	25	0	175	82	7	289
Opel	26	3	212	29	5	275
Peugeot	28	1	168	1,036	20	1,253
Renault	51	5	883	57	6	1,002
Rolls-Royce	0	16	0	0	0	16
Seat	13	0	30	0	0	43
Skoda	249	51	3,313	0	0	3,613
Ssangyong	3	2	86	0	0	91
Toyota	353	5	5,780	67	3	6,208
Vauxhall	17	0	169	12	1	199
Volkswagen	225	99	921	350	18	1,613
Volvo	6	15	35	0	0	56
Other makes	2	62	14	0	0	78
Total	1,490	1,959	15,064	2,115	105	20,733
Source: National Transport Authority

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