Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainCabinteely ranks above 82% of Irish towns on households in flats: 31%
Half of Cabinteely’s residents are over 38.9, older than in 66% of Irish towns. In 2022, the Census found 15,864 residents in the neighbourhood, living in 5,748 households. For Cabinteely, the census puts residents who said they are Catholic at 62%. Against a figure of 24% across Ireland’s towns, the share of one-person households in Cabinteely comes in at 20%.
A +8% change since 2016: Cabinteely grew faster than 53% 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.
Residents aged 65 and over: 16%, a higher share than 67% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
40–44 is the most common age band: 7.8% of residents. On average, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than in 56% of Irish towns: 12%. In Dalkey, the oldest of Co. Dublin’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Cabinteely, 38.9. 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%.
Above 69% of Irish towns: 12% of residents 15 and over are students
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 figure for residents who moved in within the year is 9.5% in Cabinteely and 7.5% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 10% of residents 15 and over are students.
2.7 people per household, more than in 61% 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.
Compared with 43% across Ireland’s towns, 45% of households are parents with children here. On shared households of unrelated adults, Cabinteely sits lower than 57% of Irish towns: 4.3%.
12% of households have no car or van, below 70% of Irish towns
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
Internet at home: broadband for 95%, nothing for 4% (typical: 7.6%). On average, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. The share of holiday homes stands at 0.2%.
Household income at the median: €77,100 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Before tax, the middle household here has €77,100 a year, 28% more than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Dublin as a whole has a median of €71,120.
More residents born outside Ireland than 55% of Irish towns: 24%
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.
The largest groups were born outside the EU and UK (9.4%) and in the UK (4.6%). Residents born outside Ireland: 22% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. Compared with other places, residents with another country’s citizenship are common here: 15%, more than in 54% of Irish towns.
Irish speakers make up 39% of Cabinteely
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 highest share in Co. Dublin belongs to Monkstown (2.5%). 5,806 residents, nearly two fifths of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. There is little gap on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.9%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
23% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 75% 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: 77% of Cabinteely · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (11%), Asian or Asian Irish (9.2%) and Other, including mixed (2.3%). 77% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, fewer than in 56% of Irish towns. On average, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
Cabinteely ranks above 86% of Irish towns on married residents 15 and over: 40%
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.
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 6.1%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Typically, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Cabinteely: 50% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, above 79% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Cabinteely’s adults, 21% went on to postgraduate study and 7% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Measured more widely, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Ranked by age, 13th oldest of 41 towns this size
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Castletroy is the youngest (29); Ballinteer the oldest (44.1). Nearest to Cabinteely in age: Clontarf West (38.7), Cobh (38.7), Kimmage (39.1) and Mahon (39.4).
Cabinteely and its 6 nearest towns: 5 of them are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cabinteely | 15,864 | — | 38.9 | 16% | 45% |
| Ballybrack | 2,872 | 1.2 km | 45.5 | 26% | 47% |
| Foxrock | 12,163 | 1.6 km | 44.7 | 22% | 47% |
| Killiney | 9,776 | 1.9 km | 42.5 | 19% | 48% |
| Sallynoggin | 13,245 | 2.6 km | 36.6 | 13% | 43% |
| Shankill | 11,009 | 3.4 km | 42.2 | 18% | 45% |
| Dalkey | 8,275 | 3.4 km | 50.3 | 29% | 37% |
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 Cabinteely’s residents
What is the population of Cabinteely?
Cabinteely had 15,864 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Cabinteely?
The median age is 38.9, older than 66% of Irish towns. 22% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Cabinteely?
39% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (5,806 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Cabinteely?
77% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 24% were born abroad and 15% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Cabinteely?
62% are Catholic, 23% have no religion and 15% another religion; 2.6% didn’t say.
Is Cabinteely good for families?
45% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Cabinteely are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Cabinteely?
Median gross household income in Cabinteely was €77,100 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).