Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0In Bohernabreena, 60% of households are parents with children, more than in 99% of Irish towns
The average household has 3.3 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. The census found that 85% of residents describe themselves as White Irish in Bohernabreena. The median age here is 35.6, lower than in three quarters of Irish towns. 4,613 residents in 1,390 households: that is Bohernabreena at the 2022 Census.
What stands out about the people of Bohernabreena
A neighbourhood of families
50% of households are couples with children and 11% lone parents with children, more than in 99% of Irish towns; 24% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Growing faster than most
Bohernabreena went from about 3,660 people in 2016 to 4,613 in 2022, +26%: faster growth than in 95% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A +26% change since 2016: Bohernabreena grew faster than 95% 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%.
8.8% of residents are 65 or over, below 84% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 35–39: 9.4% of residents. Few places have as many residents aged 15 to 24: 14% here, more than in 76% 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+
■ Bohernabreena, 35.6. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 3.3% in Bohernabreena, less than in 97% 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
The biggest occupational gap is in associate professional and technical: 16%, against a typical 13%. In Bohernabreena, 12% of residents 15 and over are students. The wider picture: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Bohernabreena ranks below 97% of Irish towns on one-person households: 12%
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.
At 4.2%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is lower than in 58% of Irish towns. Typically, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Below 93% of Irish towns: 3.8% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
Where 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns, Bohernabreena has 7.6%. Across Ireland’s towns, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment.
Households here have a median income of €82,830 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €82,830 a year before tax, the median household income is 38% above that of Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Dublin the median is €71,120.
14% born outside Ireland, fewer than in 88% 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.
Most residents from abroad were born outside the EU and UK (5.3%) or in the UK (3.4%). Compared with other places, residents with another country’s citizenship are scarce here: 7.9%, fewer than in 88% of Irish towns. For comparison, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Daily Irish outside education: 1.7% 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
Speakers of Irish: 1,570 residents, 39% of those aged 3 and over. Across the comparison, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
No religion: 19% of residents, a higher share than 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: 85% of Bohernabreena · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White Irish, the biggest groups are Other White (7.3%), Asian or Asian Irish (3.4%) and Other, including mixed (2%). Across Ireland’s towns, 17% of residents said they have no religion. Higher than in 55% of Irish towns: 72% of residents said they are Catholic.
36% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 65% 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.
At 5.9%, unpaid carers sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 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
Postgraduate: just over one in ten adults. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of adults with a degree or higher is 36%. Primary level or earlier: 9.4%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
13th lowest median age among 41 towns of 3,970 to 5,319
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Dangan is the youngest (27.5); Montenotte the oldest (46.5). Nearest to Bohernabreena in age: Duleek (35.2), Monasterevin (35.2), Tullow (36.2) and Athenry (36.8).
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 5 are older than Bohernabreena
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
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 Bohernabreena’s residents
What is the population of Bohernabreena?
Bohernabreena had 4,613 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 26% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Bohernabreena?
The median age is 35.6, younger than 75% of Irish towns. 29% are under 18 and 8.8% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Bohernabreena?
39% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,570 people), and 1.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Bohernabreena?
85% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 14% were born abroad and 7.9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Bohernabreena?
72% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 9.4% another religion; 6.6% didn’t say.
Is Bohernabreena good for families?
60% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 29% of residents are under 18. Schools near Bohernabreena are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Bohernabreena?
Median gross household income in Bohernabreena was €82,830 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).