Photo: Mic from Reading - Berkshire, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0A smaller share of households without a car or van than 97% of Irish towns: 4.5%
Compared with 43% across Ireland’s towns, half of households are parents with children here. At the 2022 Census, 5,246 people lived in Ballyboden, in 1,797 households. In Ballyboden, 88% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. Few places have so few shared households of unrelated adults: 2.3% here, fewer than in 92% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Ballyboden
Older than most towns
Half of Ballyboden’s residents are under 41.5 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 18% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Many carers
About 360 residents (6.8%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 95% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A +4% change since 2016: slower than 71% 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.
For comparison, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +6% across Co. Dublin’s towns.
A median age of 41.5: Ballyboden is older than 87% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
60–64 is the most common age band: 7.7% of residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Compared with other places, residents aged 65 and over are common here: 18%, more than in 83% of Irish towns. For Ballyboden, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 12%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Ballyboden, 41.5. 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 make up 5.3% in Ballyboden, less than in 82% 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
59% of Ballyboden’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 7.1% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Measured more widely, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Ballyboden sits below 78% of Irish towns for one-person households (18%)
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.
At 2.9 people, the average household compares with 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone.
5.9% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 84% 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 97% of households, while 2.3% go without the internet (typical: 7.6%). Households in flats: 12% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. On the census count, 0.1% of homes are holiday homes.
Households here have a median income of €90,200 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
The median household earns €90,200 gross, 50% more than the Ireland median (€60,120). That compares with €71,120 across Co. Dublin.
Fewer residents born outside Ireland than 91% of Irish towns: 13%
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.
Another language is spoken at home by 11%, most often Spanish (1.5%); 1.2% speak English not well or not at all. 6.6% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 95% of Irish towns. Set beside that, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Daily speakers of Irish outside education make up 1.8% in Ballyboden, more than in 88% of Irish towns
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
Irish speakers number 2,480, or 50% of residents aged 3 and over. Elsewhere, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
In Ballyboden, 19% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 61% 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 Ballyboden · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White Irish come Other White (5.4%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.4%) and Other, including mixed (2.1%). Across Ireland’s towns, residents with no religion come to 17%. More residents who said they are Catholic than in 57% of Irish towns: 72%.
Married residents 15 and over make up 45% in Ballyboden, 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.
Here 6.8% of residents give unpaid care, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 5.4%. Typically, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of adults with a degree or higher than 81% of Irish towns, at 52%
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 a fifth of adults; primary level or less for 4.2% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of adults with a degree or higher is 36%.
In its size band (4,743 to 5,819), the 7th oldest of 41 towns
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Woodquay and Nuns Island (32.1), the youngest, and Sutton (45.4), the oldest. Nearest to Ballyboden in age: Garryowen (40.9), Tramore (41.1), Harmonstown (41.6) and Carrick-on-Suir (42.1).
Ballyboden sits below 2 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyboden | 5,246 | — | 41.5 | 18% | 50% |
| Knocklyon | 13,854 | 1.0 km | 36.9 | 13% | 55% |
| Edmondstown | 5,451 | 1.1 km | 39.5 | 13% | 50% |
| Rathfarnham | 17,508 | 1.5 km | 43.3 | 22% | 42% |
| Firhouse | 12,254 | 2.2 km | 36.3 | 10% | 56% |
| Templeogue | 18,076 | 2.4 km | 43.3 | 23% | 42% |
| Churchtown | 10,044 | 3.2 km | 40.5 | 19% | 42% |
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 Ballyboden’s residents
What is the population of Ballyboden?
Ballyboden had 5,246 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballyboden?
The median age is 41.5, older than 87% of Irish towns. 22% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballyboden?
50% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (2,480 people), and 1.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballyboden?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 13% were born abroad and 6.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballyboden?
72% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 8.7% another religion; 1.9% didn’t say.
Is Ballyboden good for families?
50% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballyboden are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballyboden?
Median gross household income in Ballyboden was €90,200 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).