Photo: Ollamhnua · CC BY-SA 4.0Half of Ballygall is over 41.9, older than 89% of Irish towns
Households of parents with children make up 39%, against 43% across Ireland’s towns. At the 2022 Census Ballygall was home to 11,704 people in 4,309 households. On the census count, 86% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. Few places have as many households without a car or van: 21% here, more than in 67% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Ballygall
Older than most towns
Half of Ballygall’s residents are under 41.9 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.
Ballygall changed by +1% from 2016 to 2022, slower than 86% 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%.
Ballygall ranks above 91% of Irish towns on residents aged 65 and over: 20%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 35–39: 7.1% of residents. By way of comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. Compared with other places, residents aged 15 to 24 are scarce here: 12%, fewer than in 62% of Irish towns. In Dalkey, the oldest of Co. Dublin’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Ballygall, 41.9. 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.
5.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 77% 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
Set against 10% across Ireland’s towns, 8.8% of residents 15 and over are students in Ballygall. The wider picture: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of shared households of unrelated adults than 62% of Irish towns, at 6%
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.
Households in Ballygall hold 2.7 people on average (Ireland’s towns: 2.7). Across the comparison, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns. One-person households account for 24%.
15% of households live in a flat or apartment, a share 62% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
At 0.1%, the share of holiday homes is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, households in flats come to 12%. Broadband: 91% of households.
€61,130 a year is the median household income here
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €61,130 a year here, close to Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Dublin, the figure is €71,120.
Fewer residents born outside Ireland than 85% of Irish towns: 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.
Most residents from abroad were born outside the EU and UK (5.2%) or elsewhere in the EU (4.1%). Across the comparison, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. On residents with another country’s citizenship, Ballygall sits lower than 77% of Irish towns: 9.8%.
Above 81% of Irish towns: 1.6% of residents speak Irish daily outside education
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
No town in Co. Dublin beats Monkstown (2.5%). The share of daily speakers of Irish outside education across Ireland’s towns is 1.1%.
No religion: 20% of residents, a higher share than 67% 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: 86% of Ballygall · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (7.8%), Asian or Asian Irish (3.1%) and Other, including mixed (1.7%). For residents with no religion, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 17%. 72% of residents said they are Catholic, a higher share than in 52% of Irish towns.
Ballygall: 35% of residents 15 and over are married, above 58% 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.
Ballygall sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 6.1%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 57% of Irish towns: 32%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Ballygall’s adults, 13% went on to postgraduate study and 15% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Across the comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
41 towns of 10,044 to 13,743 people: this is the 3rd oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 30.5 in Summerhill to 44.7 in Foxrock. Nearest to Ballygall in age: Kilnamanagh (41.2), Portmarnock (41.2), Shankill (42.2) and Foxrock (44.7).
The towns around Ballygall are all younger
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballygall | 11,704 | — | 41.9 | 20% | 39% |
| Finglas South | 12,475 | 1.6 km | 37 | 14% | 44% |
| Ballymun | 22,321 | 1.7 km | 36.6 | 13% | 41% |
| Finglas North | 9,805 | 1.8 km | 39.4 | 15% | 40% |
| Glasnevin | 9,299 | 1.9 km | 37.7 | 15% | 27% |
| Whitehall | 13,675 | 2.2 km | 37.6 | 19% | 33% |
| Cabra West | 9,786 | 2.3 km | 40.8 | 19% | 34% |
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 Ballygall’s residents
What is the population of Ballygall?
Ballygall had 11,704 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 1% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballygall?
The median age is 41.9, older than 89% of Irish towns. 20% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballygall?
37% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (3,894 people), and 1.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballygall?
86% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 9.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballygall?
72% are Catholic, 20% have no religion and 8.6% another religion; 7.3% didn’t say.
Is Ballygall good for families?
39% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballygall are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballygall?
Median gross household income in Ballygall was €61,130 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).