Photo: Offdaw · CC BY-SA 4.0More households of parents with children than 97% of Irish towns: 59%
By its share of households in flats (2.6%), Balrothery is below 96% of Irish towns. The town has fewer shared households of unrelated adults than 84% of Irish towns, at 2.9%. The 2022 Census put the town’s population at 2,282, in 683 households. Its population is up 17% on 2016.
What stands out about the people of Balrothery
A town of families
45% of households are couples with children and 14% lone parents with children, more than in 97% of Irish towns; 22% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
A student town
13% of residents aged 15 and over are students, more than in 86% of Irish towns; Ireland’s towns 10%. 15% of residents are 15 to 24. Social class & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Growth of +17% since 2016 puts Balrothery ahead of 85% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +6% across Co. Dublin’s towns.
In Balrothery, 15% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 87% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Half of Balrothery’s residents are over 38.4, older than in 59% of Irish towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 10% in the town. In Dalkey, the oldest of Co. Dublin’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
13% of residents 15 and over are students, more than in 86% 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
7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns, against 5% in Balrothery. Measured more widely, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
15% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 91% 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.
Households in Balrothery hold 3.1 people on average (Ireland’s towns: 2.7). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of one-person households is 24%.
Only 6.5% of households in Balrothery have no car or van
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
Most homes are connected: 96% have broadband, and 3.5% have no internet (typical: 7.6%). Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. The usual figure: 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Median household income: €68,200 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 €68,200 a year before tax: 13% over the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Dublin, the figure is €71,120.
12% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 64% of Irish towns
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.
Across Ireland’s towns the share born abroad is 22%; in Balrothery it is 20%. Elsewhere, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. 19% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (3.2%); 2.3% speak English not well or not at all.
1.8% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, 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
The ability to speak Irish extends to 824 residents (42% of those aged 3 and over). Set beside that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Only 15% of residents said they have no religion in Balrothery
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: 77% of Balrothery · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 71% across Ireland’s towns, 69% of residents said they are Catholic in Balrothery. After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (12%), Black or Black Irish (6.8%) and Asian or Asian Irish (2.1%). The usual figure: 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
Half of adults have never married
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 make up 5.7%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
36% of adults have a degree or higher
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Still in education: 17% of residents 15 and over. At the top, 12% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 6.6% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
Older than Balrothery: 2 of the 6 towns nearby
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
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 Balrothery’s residents
What is the population of Balrothery?
Balrothery had 2,282 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 17% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Balrothery?
The median age is 38.4. 28% are under 18 and 10% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Balrothery?
42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (824 people), and 1.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Balrothery?
77% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 20% were born abroad and 12% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Balrothery?
69% are Catholic, 15% have no religion and 16% another religion; 12% didn’t say.
Is Balrothery good for families?
59% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 28% of residents are under 18. Schools near Balrothery are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Balrothery?
Median gross household income in Balrothery was €68,200 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. 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).