Photo: Laurel Lodged · CC BY-SA 4.0Households without a car or van make up 6% in Carpenterstown, less than in 93% of Irish towns
The figure for households of parents with children is 52% in Carpenterstown and 43% across Ireland’s towns. Fewer one-person households than in 89% of Irish towns: 16%. The neighbourhood had 20,967 residents in 6,937 households at the 2022 Census. Residents who said they are Catholic account for 64%.
A +10% change since 2016: Carpenterstown grew faster than 65% 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.
Residents aged 65 and over: 11%, a lower share than 71% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 40–44, with nearly one in ten residents. To put it in context, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. Half of Carpenterstown’s residents are under 37.4, younger than in 54% 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+
■ Carpenterstown, 37.4. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Carpenterstown sits above 73% of Irish towns for students among residents 15 and over (12%)
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
Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Carpenterstown, 59% and 7.5%. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 7%.
Larger households than 88% of Irish towns: 3 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.
On the census count, 4.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Carpenterstown sits above 69% of Irish towns for households in flats (17%)
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
Connected households: 98% on broadband; 1.7% offline (typical: 7.6%). The benchmark for households in flats across Ireland’s towns: 12%. Across Carpenterstown, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes.
A median household income of €98,220 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 €98,220 a year, 63% more than the Ireland median (€60,120). Countywide in Co. Dublin, the median is €71,120.
Above 62% of Irish towns: 25% of residents were born outside Ireland
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 figure for residents with another country’s citizenship is 16% in Carpenterstown and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Measured more widely, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born outside the EU and UK (11%) or elsewhere in the EU (6.8%).
In Carpenterstown, 47% of residents 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
In all, 8,963 residents aged 3 and over (47%) can speak Irish. Few places have as many daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.3% here, more than in two thirds of Irish towns.
A smaller share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 64% of Irish towns: 74%
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: 74% of Carpenterstown · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Nearly a fifth of residents said they have no religion, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (14%), Asian or Asian Irish (6.6%) and Other, including mixed (3.5%).
In Carpenterstown, 42% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 94% 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.
5.1% of residents give unpaid care, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
59% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, more than in 91% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate qualifications are held by 26% of adults here, while 3.7% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Across Ireland’s towns, adults with a degree or higher come to 36%.
20th highest median age among 41 towns of 17,259 to 24,613
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Jobstown (32.4) and the oldest Rathfarnham (43.3). Nearest to Carpenterstown in age: Clondalkin (37.1), Blanchardstown (37.3), Newbridge (37.6) and Old Bawn (38).
Carpenterstown and its 6 nearest towns: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carpenterstown | 20,967 | — | 37.4 | 11% | 52% |
| Blanchardstown | 24,613 | 1.8 km | 37.3 | 14% | 45% |
| Castleknock | 6,355 | 2.4 km | 38.1 | 18% | 41% |
| Palmerston | 11,012 | 2.5 km | 40.4 | 18% | 42% |
| Ballyowen | 14,739 | 3.2 km | 33.6 | 3.7% | 56% |
| Mulhuddart | 19,252 | 3.3 km | 35.6 | 10% | 50% |
| Clonsilla | 22,510 | 3.4 km | 34.3 | 5.8% | 59% |
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 Carpenterstown’s residents
What is the population of Carpenterstown?
Carpenterstown had 20,967 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 10% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Carpenterstown?
The median age is 37.4, younger than 54% of Irish towns. 25% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Carpenterstown?
47% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (8,963 people), and 1.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Carpenterstown?
74% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 25% were born abroad and 16% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Carpenterstown?
64% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 17% another religion; 4.8% didn’t say.
Is Carpenterstown good for families?
52% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Carpenterstown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Carpenterstown?
Median gross household income in Carpenterstown was €98,220 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).