Photo: Darren J. Prior · CC BY-SA 4.0In Ballymun, 15% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 88% of Irish towns
Set against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns, 11% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Ballymun. Households without a car or van: 32% of the total. On households of parents with children, Ballymun sits lower than 62% of Irish towns: 41%. The neighbourhood is home to 22,321 residents in 8,035 households, by the 2022 Census.
+3% since 2016: slower than 78% 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.
Half of Ballymun is under 36.6, younger than 64% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 20–24: 8.2% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over: 13% of the total.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Ballymun, 36.6. 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%.
Ballymun sits below 83% of Irish towns for residents who moved in within the year (5.2%)
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
23% of Ballymun’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 18% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Larger households than 66% of Irish towns: 2.8 people on average
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.
In Ballymun, just over a fifth of households are one person living alone, beside 24% across Ireland’s towns.
A neighbourhood of flats: 25% of households 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
Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. To put it in context, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Broadband reaches 90% of households; 8.3% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%).
€53,160 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.
€53,160 a year before tax puts the median household 12% below Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Dublin the median is €71,120.
Only 19% of residents were born outside Ireland in Ballymun
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.
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born outside the EU and UK (7%) and elsewhere in the EU (4.7%). On average, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than in 58% of Irish towns: 14%.
29% of Ballymun can speak Irish
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
Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.2%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. Irish speakers number 4,962, or 29% of residents aged 3 and over.
Residents who said they are Catholic make up 72% in Ballymun, more than in 58% 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: 78% of Ballymun · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (9.3%), Asian or Asian Irish (5.9%) and Black or Black Irish (2.7%). The usual figure: 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Lower than in 55% of Irish towns: 16% of residents said they have no religion. 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer married residents 15 and over than 90% of Irish towns: 27%
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.
Unpaid carers are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 4.8%. Measured more widely, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 86% of Irish towns: 21%
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 6.8% of adults; primary level or less for 18% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Across Ireland’s towns, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher.
18th lowest median age among 41 towns of 18,212 to 27,351
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Jobstown (32.4) and the oldest Beaumont (42.9). Nearest to Ballymun in age: Dooradoyle (36.4), Carrigaline (36.6), Mullingar (36.7) and Naas (36.9).
4 of the 6 nearest towns are older than Ballymun
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballymun | 22,321 | — | 36.6 | 13% | 41% |
| Dubber | 7,941 | 1.6 km | 32.5 | 2.1% | 48% |
| Ballygall | 11,704 | 1.7 km | 41.9 | 20% | 39% |
| Santry | 6,710 | 1.9 km | 34 | 8.2% | 31% |
| Whitehall | 13,675 | 2.0 km | 37.6 | 19% | 33% |
| Finglas North | 9,805 | 2.1 km | 39.4 | 15% | 40% |
| Finglas South | 12,475 | 2.8 km | 37 | 14% | 44% |
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 Ballymun’s residents
What is the population of Ballymun?
Ballymun had 22,321 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballymun?
The median age is 36.6, younger than 64% of Irish towns. 21% are under 18 and 13% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballymun?
29% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (4,962 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballymun?
78% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 19% were born abroad and 14% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballymun?
72% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 12% another religion; 20% didn’t say.
Is Ballymun good for families?
41% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 21% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballymun are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballymun?
Median gross household income in Ballymun was €53,160 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).