Photo: Harold Strong · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 41.7: Ayrfield is older than 88% of Irish towns
The share of households in flats tops 81% of Irish towns: 28%. The 2022 Census counted 5,863 residents in 2,128 households. Locally, 78% of residents said they are Catholic. On one-person households, Ayrfield sits lower than 64% of Irish towns: 21%.
What stands out about the people of Ayrfield
Older than most towns
Half of Ayrfield’s residents are under 41.7 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 20% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A +4% change since 2016: slower than 73% of Irish towns
Residents at the 2016 and 2022 censuses, on 2022 boundaries, and the change beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Change, 2016 to 2022
CSO publishes yearly population estimates for counties and regions, not towns, so the trend is two censuses rather than a line; 2016 ages aren’t on 2022 boundaries, so there is no change by age.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +6% across Co. Dublin’s towns.
In Ayrfield, 20% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 90% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 40–44: 7% of residents. At 12%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is higher than in 50% of Irish towns. Against that, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Dalkey, the oldest of Co. Dublin’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Ayrfield, 41.7. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Residents who moved in within the year: 4.7%, a lower share than 88% 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
In Ayrfield, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 31% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 16%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Bigger households than 57% of Irish towns: 2.7 people each on average
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Dublin’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
3.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 43% of households are parents with children.
More households without a car or van than 59% of Irish towns: 19%
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
No internet at all: 5.6% (typical: 7.6%). Holiday homes are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Irish towns. Set beside that, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Broadband: 93% of households.
Median gross household income: €55,500 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €55,500 a year before tax, the median household income is 8% under that of Ireland (€60,120). County median: €71,120 (Co. Dublin).
14% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 89% of Irish towns
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.
Residents born abroad were most often born outside the EU and UK (4.3%), then in the UK (3.4%). 9.1% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 82% of Irish towns. Across the comparison, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Can speak Irish: 32% of Ayrfield’s residents
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
The highest share in Co. Dublin belongs to Monkstown (2.5%). Irish speakers number 1,719, or nearly a third of residents aged 3 and over. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 1.1%.
88% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 89% 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: 88% of Ayrfield · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion make up 14%, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (6.2%), Asian or Asian Irish (3.2%) and Other, including mixed (1.7%). The wider picture: 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns.
Ayrfield ranks above 78% of Irish towns on married residents 15 and over: 38%
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.
Unpaid carers are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 5.9%. Set beside that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Ayrfield ranks below 85% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 22%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
6.9% of Ayrfield’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 15% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The usual figure: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Ranked by age, 6th oldest of 41 towns this size
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Gillabbey (25.6) and the oldest Sutton (45.4). Nearest to Ayrfield in age: Ballyboden (41.5), Harmonstown (41.6), Kinsale (41.8) and Carrick-on-Suir (42.1).
Of the 6 towns nearest Ayrfield, 3 are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayrfield | 5,863 | — | 41.7 | 20% | 43% |
| Edenmore | 2,831 | 0.8 km | 44.1 | 24% | 40% |
| Belmayne | 15,047 | 1.1 km | 33.8 | 6.8% | 52% |
| Donaghmede | 9,616 | 1.3 km | 43.8 | 23% | 41% |
| Darndale | 14,675 | 1.4 km | 36.1 | 13% | 48% |
| Harmonstown | 5,769 | 1.5 km | 41.6 | 19% | 40% |
| Raheny | 8,734 | 1.9 km | 42.8 | 22% | 39% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Dublin’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Dublin’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 Ayrfield’s residents
What is the population of Ayrfield?
Ayrfield had 5,863 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ayrfield?
The median age is 41.7, older than 88% of Irish towns. 20% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ayrfield?
32% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,719 people), and 1.1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ayrfield?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 14% were born abroad and 9.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ayrfield?
78% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 8.2% another religion; 6.1% didn’t say.
Is Ayrfield good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ayrfield are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ayrfield?
Median gross household income in Ayrfield was €55,500 in 2022, against €71,120 across Co. Dublin 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).