Photo: Kieran Campbell · CC BY-SA 2.0A larger share of households of parents with children than 99% of Irish towns: 64%
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents aged 65 and over is 14%; Ballyboghil has 7.6%. Census day 2022: 855 residents and 255 households locally. Shared households of unrelated adults: 0.8% of the total. On households without a car or van, Ballyboghil sits lower than 96% of Irish towns: 4.8%.
Ballyboghil grew +40% from 2016 to 2022, ahead of 99% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns the median change is +8%; across Co. Dublin’s towns, +6%.
A median age of 32.9: Ballyboghil is younger than 93% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 10–14 than any other five-year age: 11% of residents, 1.5 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Here, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
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. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
12% of residents 15 and over are students, a share 71% of Irish towns don’t reach
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 Ballyboghil, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 48% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 8.7%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 7.1% locally.
Only 7.5% of households are one person living alone in Ballyboghil
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.
Across Ireland’s towns, households average 2.7 people; in Ballyboghil, 3.4. By way of comparison, 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Few flats: only 4.7% of households in Ballyboghil live in one
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
Connected households: 94% on broadband; 4.4% offline (typical: 7.6%). The wider picture: just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
Median household income: €84,070 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of households are above €84,070 a year before tax: 40% over the Ireland median (€60,120). Across Co. Dublin, the middle household has €71,120.
A lower share of residents with another country’s citizenship than 95% of Irish towns, at 6.7%
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 another language at home, most often French (1.2%); 1.3% speak English not well or not at all. At 13%, the share of residents born outside Ireland is lower than in 90% of Irish towns. Across the comparison, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 2.4%, a higher share than 97% 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
Speakers of Irish: 332 residents, just over two fifths of those aged 3 and over. The benchmark for daily speakers of Irish outside education across Ireland’s towns: 1.1%.
83% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, a share 68% of Irish towns don’t reach
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 Ballyboghil · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (7.2%), Black or Black Irish (4.8%) and Irish Traveller (2.9%). Across Ireland’s towns, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. Few places have as many residents who said they are Catholic: 73% here, more than in 63% of Irish towns. On residents with no religion, 17% here is much the same as across Ireland’s towns.
Ballyboghil: 40% of residents 15 and over are married, above 90% 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.
Where 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns, Ballyboghil has 6.9%. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
More adults with a degree or higher than 60% of Irish towns: 40%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate qualifications are held by 14% of adults here, while 10% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). The wider picture: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
The towns around Ballyboghil are all older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyboghil | 855 | — | 32.9 | 7.6% | 64% |
| Lusk | 8,806 | 6.5 km | 35.3 | 6.6% | 59% |
| Swords | 40,776 | 6.8 km | 36.9 | 9.7% | 50% |
| Donabate | 9,669 | 8.2 km | 35.6 | 5.6% | 59% |
| Ashbourne | 15,680 | 8.9 km | 35.6 | 8.3% | 56% |
| Kinsealy-Drinan | 7,526 | 9.0 km | 34.4 | 3.9% | 53% |
| Balrothery | 2,282 | 9.4 km | 38.4 | 10% | 59% |
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.
Questions about Ballyboghil’s residents
What is the population of Ballyboghil?
Ballyboghil had 855 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 40% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballyboghil?
The median age is 32.9. 35% are under 18 and 7.6% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballyboghil?
42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (332 people), and 2.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballyboghil?
83% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 13% were born abroad and 6.7% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballyboghil?
73% are Catholic, 17% have no religion and 10% another religion; 3% didn’t say.
Is Ballyboghil good for families?
64% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 35% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballyboghil are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballyboghil?
Median gross household income in Ballyboghil was €84,070 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. 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).