Photo: RavensFists · Public domainOlder than 93% of Irish towns: half of Beaumont is over 42.9
Where 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns, Beaumont has 39%. The neighbourhood’s 6,764 households held 19,072 residents at the 2022 Census. The share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish stands at 83%. Lower than in two thirds of Irish towns: 9.4% of households live in a flat or apartment.
What stands out about the people of Beaumont
Older than most towns
Half of Beaumont’s residents are under 42.9 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 23% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Beaumont changed by +3% from 2016 to 2022, behind 77% 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%.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 23% in Beaumont, more than in 96% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 12%; Beaumont has 11%. Typically, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. No age band is larger than 40–44: 7.5% of residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Beaumont, 42.9. 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.
8.5% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer than in 87% 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
Just over two fifths of Beaumont’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 12% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Few places have so few residents who moved in within the year: 6.7% here, fewer than in 62% of Irish towns.
A lower share of one-person households than 57% of Irish towns, at 23%
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.
For Beaumont, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 5.4%. Households in Beaumont hold 2.7 people on average (Ireland’s towns: 2.7).
91% of homes are houses
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
Home broadband covers 92% of households, while 7.1% go without the internet (typical: 7.6%). In Beaumont, 0.1% of homes are holiday homes. 17% of households have no car or van, more than in 50% of Irish towns.
€69,410 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 €69,410 a year here, 15% above Ireland (€60,120). Co. Dublin’s median household income is €71,120.
Beaumont sits below 78% of Irish towns for residents born outside Ireland (17%)
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.
Just over one in ten residents are citizens of another country (Ireland’s towns: 15%). The usual figure: just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are outside the EU and UK (6.7%) and elsewhere in the EU (4.3%).
A higher share of daily speakers of Irish outside education than 81% of Irish towns, at 1.6%
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
Irish speakers number 6,961, or just over two in five residents aged 3 and over. Across the comparison, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
In Beaumont, 19% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 59% 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: 83% of Beaumont · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (7.9%), Asian or Asian Irish (5.5%) and Other, including mixed (2.2%). For comparison, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. 72% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 56% of Irish towns.
Beaumont: 40% of residents 15 and over are married, above 88% 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.
Unpaid carers make up 6.2%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. To put it in context, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of adults with a degree or higher than 53% of Irish towns, at 37%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Beaumont’s adults, 14% went on to postgraduate study and 12% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). The usual figure: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
In its size band (15,864 to 22,869), the 4th oldest of 41 towns
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit East Wall (31.2), the youngest, and Ballinteer (44.1), the oldest. Nearest to Beaumont in age: Dún Laoghaire (42.1), Clontarf East (42.5), Templeogue (43.3) and Rathfarnham (43.3).
The towns around Beaumont are all younger
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont | 19,072 | — | 42.9 | 23% | 39% |
| Kilmore | 9,786 | 1.0 km | 39 | 14% | 43% |
| Marino | 6,272 | 1.3 km | 39.8 | 20% | 38% |
| Whitehall | 13,675 | 1.8 km | 37.6 | 19% | 33% |
| Clontarf West | 15,296 | 1.8 km | 38.7 | 15% | 33% |
| Harmonstown | 5,769 | 1.9 km | 41.6 | 19% | 40% |
| Darndale | 14,675 | 2.3 km | 36.1 | 13% | 48% |
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 Beaumont’s residents
What is the population of Beaumont?
Beaumont had 19,072 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Beaumont?
The median age is 42.9, older than 93% of Irish towns. 18% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Beaumont?
41% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (6,961 people), and 1.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Beaumont?
83% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 17% were born abroad and 12% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Beaumont?
72% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 9.2% another religion; 4.4% didn’t say.
Is Beaumont good for families?
39% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 18% of residents are under 18. Schools near Beaumont are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Beaumont?
Median gross household income in Beaumont was €69,410 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).