Photo: Hywel Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 6% of households have no car or van in Douglas
The share of households of parents with children tops nearly two thirds of Irish towns: 46%. Douglas has fewer one-person households than just over two thirds of Irish towns, at 21%. 22,029 residents in 8,021 households: that is Douglas at the 2022 Census. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 83% of the total.
Douglas is older than 58% of Irish towns: a median age of 38.3
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns, against 13% in Douglas. More residents are 40–44 than any other five-year age: 8.1% of residents. Compared with other places, residents aged 15 to 24 are scarce here: 12%, fewer than in 52% of Irish towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Douglas, 38.3. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
12% of residents 15 and over are students, more than in 71% of Irish towns
CSO’s social classes (everyone, by their own or their family’s occupation), the occupations of those at work, and where residents lived a year before the Census.
Residents by social class · all residents
Where residents lived a year earlier
Residents who lived somewhere else a year earlier. The bar runs to 25%.
Workers by occupation · residents at work
55% of Douglas’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 9.7% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 7.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Larger households than 61% of Irish towns: 2.7 people on average
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Cork’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
The figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 6.1% in Douglas and 4.7% across Ireland’s towns.
In Douglas, 14% of households live in a flat or apartment, more than in 58% of Irish towns
Home types, cars and the internet, by household. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Cars or vans · share of households
Internet at home · share of households
95% have broadband at home and 3.7% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). For households in flats, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 12%. Locally, 0.3% of homes are holiday homes.
The middle household earns €80,260 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Households here have a median gross income of €80,260, 33% higher than across Ireland (€60,120). Countywide, Co. Cork has a median of €60,670.
Fewer residents born abroad than 71% of Irish towns: 18%
Place of birth and citizenship as CSO asks them: born abroad includes Irish citizens born abroad.
Born abroad, by birthplace · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
Citizens of another country, by citizenship; CSO counts dual Irish citizens as Irish.
Other languages · share of all residents
CSO’s small-area tables don’t give the year people arrived.
With residents with another country’s citizenship at 11%, Douglas is behind 71% of Irish towns on that count. Set beside that, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born outside the EU and UK (6.7%) and in the UK (4.2%).
49% of Douglas’s residents can speak Irish
Residents aged 3 and over who can speak Irish, and how often they speak it outside education (CSO).
Irish speakers · residents aged 3 and over
9,952 residents, nearly half of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. On daily speakers of Irish outside education, Douglas sits higher than 52% of Irish towns: 1.1%.
Residents with no religion make up 19% in Douglas, more than in 56% of Irish towns
Ethnic or cultural background and religion, in CSO’s categories, as people described themselves.
Ethnic groups other than White Irish · all residents
White Irish, not charted: 83% of Douglas · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White Irish come Other White (9.6%), Asian or Asian Irish (3.1%) and Other, including mixed (2.5%). Residents who said they are Catholic are more common here than in 53% of Irish towns. The wider picture: 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of married residents 15 and over than 85% of Irish towns, at 39%
Marital status of residents 15 and over, and unpaid carers.
Partnership status · residents 15 and over
The small-area tables count carers, not their hours of care.
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 6.1%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher: 54%, a higher share than 84% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A postgraduate qualification is the highest level for 22% of adults; primary level or less for 3.6% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
In its size band (17,994 to 26,180), the 15th oldest of 41 towns
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 32.4 in Jobstown to 43.3 in Templeogue. Nearest to Douglas in age: Knocknacarra (38), Ballincollig (38.1), Celbridge (38.4) and Sligo (38.5).
4 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Douglas
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas | 22,029 | — | 38.3 | 13% | 46% |
| Tramore | 4,803 | 2.5 km | 41.1 | 19% | 39% |
| Frankfield and Grange | 7,687 | 2.6 km | 37.1 | 11% | 51% |
| Mahon | 13,892 | 2.7 km | 39.4 | 17% | 42% |
| Ballinlough | 5,435 | 2.7 km | 44.1 | 22% | 38% |
| Knockrea | 5,228 | 3.6 km | 37.4 | 13% | 29% |
| Turner's Cross | 7,208 | 3.9 km | 43 | 20% | 34% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Cork’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Cork’s towns of 2,500 or more and over the Irish towns of 2,500 or more (city totals left out). Percentiles are within Ireland only.
- The earlier population is an estimate. Towns had no official 2016 count on today’s boundaries, so the 2016 figure is CSO’s electoral-division count shared out by where people lived in 2022: read a small town in a large rural division loosely.
- What these tables don’t give. The small-area tables give no year of arrival and no hours of care, and a town’s electoral divisions run past its edge, so the page doesn’t split a town into named areas (a city lists its neighbourhoods).
- The census’s own words. Born abroad, citizenship, ethnic or cultural background and religion are CSO’s questions and categories; the page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas
Questions about Douglas’s residents
What is the population of Douglas?
Douglas had 22,029 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood.
What is the average age in Douglas?
The median age is 38.3, older than 58% of Irish towns. 23% are under 18 and 13% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Douglas?
49% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (9,952 people), and 1.1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Douglas?
83% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Douglas?
72% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 9.7% another religion; 5.2% didn’t say.
Is Douglas good for families?
46% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Douglas are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Douglas?
Median gross household income in Douglas was €80,260 in 2022, against €60,670 across Co. Cork and €60,120 for Ireland.
Sources: CSO, Census of Population 2022, Small Area Population Statistics · CSO PxStat FP009 (2016 by electoral division) · CSO GPIIA, household income 2022 · Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).