Photo: Djm-leighpark · CC BY-SA 4.0Half of Ballybrack is over 45.5, older than 99% of Irish towns
4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns, against 1.5% in Ballybrack. The neighbourhood counted 2,872 residents and 989 households at the 2022 Census. Census figures put households in flats at 0.2% here. One-person households are rarer here than in 83% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Ballybrack
Older than most towns
Half of Ballybrack’s residents are under 45.5 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 26% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Fewer people than before
Ballybrack went from about 2,960 people in 2016 to 2,872 in 2022, −3%: slower growth than in 98% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
−3% since 2016, a pace below 98% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +6% across Co. Dublin’s towns.
Residents aged 65 and over: 26%, a higher share than 99% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
75–79 is the most common age band: 7.4% of residents, 2.7 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Ballybrack, 45.5. 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.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 88% of Irish towns: 4.7%
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
The biggest occupational gap is in professional occupations: 26%, against a typical 21%. In Ballybrack, just over one in ten residents 15 and over are students. To put it in context, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Ballybrack households average 2.9 people, larger than in 78% of Irish towns
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.
Against a figure of 43% across Ireland’s towns, the share of households of parents with children in Ballybrack comes in at 47%.
Only 9.7% of households have no car or van in Ballybrack
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
Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. In one household in 10 there is no car or van. Connected households: 95% on broadband; 4.4% offline (typical: 7.6%).
Household income at the median: €70,300 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Ballybrack’s households have a gross income above €70,300 a year, 17% above the median for Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Dublin overall, the median comes to €71,120.
Only 11% of residents were born outside Ireland in Ballybrack
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.
French leads the languages spoken at home (1.3%), among the 7.5% who speak another language there; 0.7% speak English not well or not at all. Residents born outside Ireland make up 22% across Ireland’s towns. At 4.8%, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship is lower than in 98% of Irish towns.
Daily Irish outside education: 1.6% 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
Top of Co. Dublin: Monkstown, at 2.5%. The usual figure: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
91% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, a share 98% 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: 91% of Ballybrack · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White Irish, the biggest groups are Other White (4.3%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.8%) and Other, including mixed (1.2%). As a yardstick, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. Nearly a fifth of residents said they have no religion, a higher share than in 57% of Irish towns. Residents who said they are Catholic: 73%, above just over three fifths of Irish towns.
Ballybrack sits above 95% of Irish towns for married residents 15 and over (42%)
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.
Ballybrack sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 6%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher: 34%, a lower share than 54% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
13% of Ballybrack’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 12% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Across Ireland’s towns, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher.
Oldest by rank: 1st of 41 towns of 2,536 to 3,263 people
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Kilbarry (30.4), the youngest, and Ballybrack (45.5), the oldest. Nearest to Ballybrack in age: Edenmore (44.1) and Kilrush (44.1).
Older than Ballybrack: 1 of the 6 towns nearby
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballybrack | 2,872 | — | 45.5 | 26% | 47% |
| Killiney | 9,776 | 1.0 km | 42.5 | 19% | 48% |
| Cabinteely | 15,864 | 1.2 km | 38.9 | 16% | 45% |
| Sallynoggin | 13,245 | 2.4 km | 36.6 | 13% | 43% |
| Dalkey | 8,275 | 2.4 km | 50.3 | 29% | 37% |
| Foxrock | 12,163 | 2.5 km | 44.7 | 22% | 47% |
| Shankill | 11,009 | 3.0 km | 42.2 | 18% | 45% |
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 Ballybrack’s residents
What is the population of Ballybrack?
Ballybrack had 2,872 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 3% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballybrack?
The median age is 45.5, older than 99% of Irish towns. 20% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballybrack?
39% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,083 people), and 1.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballybrack?
91% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 11% were born abroad and 4.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballybrack?
73% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 8.6% another religion; 1.4% didn’t say.
Is Ballybrack good for families?
47% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballybrack are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballybrack?
Median gross household income in Ballybrack was €70,300 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).