Photo: Sarah777 · Public domainOlder than 97% of Irish towns: half of Ballinteer is over 44.1
Households without a car or van: 8.7% here and 17% across Ireland’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 88% of the total. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 64% of Irish towns. The 2022 Census counted 16,038 residents in 6,062 households.
What stands out about the people of Ballinteer
Older than most towns
Half of Ballinteer’s residents are under 44.1 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 24% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Fewer people than before
Ballinteer went from about 16,160 people in 2016 to 16,038 in 2022, −1%: slower growth than in 95% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
−1% since 2016, a pace below 95% 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 across Ireland’s towns is +8%, and across Co. Dublin’s towns +6%.
24% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 97% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
10% of residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. The biggest five-year age group is 40–44, with 7.6% of residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Ballinteer, 44.1. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
In Ballinteer, 6.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 69% 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
By occupation, professional occupations are over-represented: 33%, against a typical 21%. The share of students among residents 15 and over stands at 10%. Across the comparison, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Ballinteer sits below 60% of Irish towns for households of parents with children (41%)
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.
The figure for one-person households is 23% in Ballinteer and 24% across Ireland’s towns. Each household has 2.7 people on average. Across the comparison, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
13% of households live in a flat or apartment, more than in 51% 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
Home broadband covers 95% of households, while 3.9% go without the internet (typical: 7.6%). Measured more widely, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Census figures put holiday homes at 0.4% in Ballinteer.
Household income at the median: €75,250 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€75,250 a year before tax puts the median household 25% above Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Dublin, the figure is €71,120.
A lower share of residents born outside Ireland than 87% of Irish towns, at 15%
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.
12% speak a language other than English at home, Spanish most of all (1.7%); 1% speak English not well or not at all. Across the comparison, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Ballinteer has fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than 90% of Irish towns, at 7.6%.
Daily Irish outside education: 2.3% of 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
In all, 7,146 residents aged 3 and over (47%) can speak Irish. Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.1% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. The highest share in Co. Dublin belongs to Monkstown (2.5%).
21% said they have no religion, more than in 68% 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 Ballinteer · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (6.6%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.8%) and Other, including mixed (2.4%). Set beside that, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Lower than in 63% of Irish towns: 68% of residents said they are Catholic.
Married residents 15 and over make up 44% in Ballinteer, more than in 98% of Irish towns
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.
6.5% of residents give unpaid care; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 5.4%. Typically, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Ballinteer sits above 78% of Irish towns for adults with a degree or higher (49%)
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Ballinteer’s adults, 21% went on to postgraduate study and 6.5% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of adults with a degree or higher is 36%.
1st highest median age among 41 towns of 13,743 to 18,644
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Castletroy (29) and the oldest Ballinteer (44.1). Nearest to Ballinteer in age: Rathfarnham (43.3) and Templeogue (43.3).
The towns around Ballinteer are all younger
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballinteer | 16,038 | — | 44.1 | 24% | 41% |
| Dundrum | 16,570 | 1.2 km | 37 | 15% | 37% |
| Churchtown | 10,044 | 2.0 km | 40.5 | 19% | 42% |
| Edmondstown | 5,451 | 2.4 km | 39.5 | 13% | 50% |
| Rathfarnham | 17,508 | 2.5 km | 43.3 | 22% | 42% |
| Sandyford | 8,844 | 2.6 km | 35.2 | 14% | 37% |
| Clonskeagh | 14,142 | 3.2 km | 29.4 | 12% | 32% |
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 Ballinteer’s residents
What is the population of Ballinteer?
Ballinteer had 16,038 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Ballinteer?
The median age is 44.1, older than 97% of Irish towns. 21% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballinteer?
47% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (7,146 people), and 2.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballinteer?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 7.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballinteer?
68% are Catholic, 21% have no religion and 11% another religion; 2.1% didn’t say.
Is Ballinteer good for families?
41% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 21% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballinteer are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballinteer?
Median gross household income in Ballinteer was €75,250 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).