Cork

(Irish: Corcaigh [ˈkɔɾˠkəɟ]; from corcach, meaning ‘marsh’) (From Wikipedia) The second largest city in Ireland, the county town of County Cork, the largest city in the province of Munster and third largest on the island of Ireland. At the 2022 census, it had a population of 224,004.[5]

Indicators available in Cork City, Ireland to determine vulnerability to flooding (taken from the national census for Ireland and from European Copernicus datasets on land cover).

Indicator	Domain	Dimension	Rationale
Children under 5 years of age	Age	Sensitivity	Physiologically, the young have a greater susceptibility to the effects of flooding.
Adults over 75 years of age	Age	Sensitivity	Physiologically, older people have a greater susceptibility to the effects of flooding.
Persons with poor health	Health	Sensitivity	Physiologically, those with an illness have a greater susceptibility to the effects of flooding.
People with a disability preventing work	Health	Sensitivity	Physiologically, those with a disability have a greater susceptibility to the effects of flooding.
One parent households	Income	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Prepare/Respond/Recover	One parent households are more likely to have less disposable income compared to other households
Children per family	Income	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Prepare/Respond/Recover	People with more dependents may struggle to respond to and recover from extreme climatic events.
Low skilled employment	Income	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Prepare/Respond/Recover	People in low skills employment are likely to have less income, reducing their ability to adapt before, during, or after an event.
Population employed in farming	Income	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Prepare/Respond/Recover	People who are work with farming related occupations are potentially more impacted by hazards due to the reliance upon access and quality of farmland
Unemployment	Income	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Prepare/Respond/Recover	Unemployed persons are more likely to have less incomes, and have limited ability to make physical adjustments to their property to adapt to flooding
Population with no higher education	Information Access/Use	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Prepare/Respond/Recover	People with limited education may find it difficult to interpret and/or act up on information received
Population who do not speak English well or at all	Information Access/Use	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Prepare/Respond/Recover	People with poor English ability may find it difficult to interpret and/or act up on information received
Households with no Internet	Information Access/Use	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Prepare/Respond/Recover	People with households with no internet may find it difficult to find information, pre, during, and post flooding events
New residents	Local Knowledge	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Prepare/Respond	Residents living in the area less than a year are likely to have less local knowledge and may be less aware of hazards.
Foreign nationals	Local Knowledge	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Prepare/Respond	Foreign nationals are likely to have less local knowledge and may be less aware of hazards.
Households with no motor car	Mobility	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Respond/Recover	No personal access to a vehicle may restrict evacuation during a flooding event
Travel Time	Physical Access	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Respond	People with long commutes to work/school are likely living in areas with low service provision
Households renting	Tenure	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Prepare	Renters are more likely to have lower incomes, plus have limited ability to make physical adjustments to their property to adapt to flooding.
Volunteering	Social Network	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Respond/Recover	Those engaged in volunteering tend to have a stronger social network that can assist them during a flooding event.
Primary school age children	Social Network	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Respond/Recover	Those with primary school age children tend to have a stronger social network that can assist them during a flooding event.
Households with one person	Social Network	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Respond/Recover	Those living alone likely lack a support network that can assist them during a flooding event.
Households with no central heating	Housing Characteristics	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Recover	People that reside in households with no central heating may struggle to recover from the impacts of flooding events (cold and damp)
Households with private water supplies	Housing Characteristics	Adaptive Capacity – Ability to Recover	A private water supply may not have as sophisticated water quality monitoring as compared to the public supply, making the occurrence of water borne diseases more likely after a flooding event
Dwelling construction year	Housing Characteristics	Enhanced Exposure	Households built prior to 1945 may be of poor quality and may not offer as much protection to residents when compared to modern housing
Households that are caravans/mobile homes	Housing Characteristics	Enhanced Exposure	Caravans/mobile homes may not offer as much protection to residents as compared to permanent housing
Unoccupied dwellings	Housing Characteristics	Enhanced Exposure	Unoccupied dwellings indicate that residents are away and may prevent deployment of cautionary measures such as door guards or sandbags during a flooding event.
Impervious surface	Physical Environment	Enhanced Exposure	Increased area of impervious surface enhances the impacts of flooding
Tree cover	Physical Environment	Enhanced Exposure	Increased area of tree cover and greenspace reduces the impacts of flooding