Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0Cherry Orchard is younger than 93% of Irish towns: a median age of 33
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 17%; Cherry Orchard has 31%. The share of one-person households stands at 15%. Compared with other places, households of parents with children are common here: 49%, more than in 76% of Irish towns. The neighbourhood had 8,280 residents in 2,307 households at the 2022 Census.
What stands out about the people of Cherry Orchard
Younger than most towns
Half of Cherry Orchard’s residents are under 33 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 16% are 15 to 24 and 6.8% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Cherry Orchard changed by +6% from 2016 to 2022, behind 57% 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.
For comparison, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +6% across Co. Dublin’s towns.
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 91% of Irish towns: 6.8%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (16%), Cherry Orchard is above 89% of Irish towns. On average, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Cherry Orchard, 33. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
45% women, 55% men
About 122 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
4.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 92% 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
Elementary occupations stand out among workers: 20%, against a typical 11%. Students among residents 15 and over are rarer here than in 50% of Irish towns. Typically, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
3.1 people per household, more than in 92% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; in Cherry Orchard, 7.1%.
A higher share of households in flats than 84% of Irish towns, at 36%
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
Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. The wider picture: just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. 5.6% of households have no internet access (typical: 7.6%); 92% have broadband.
€53,280 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.
€53,280 a year before tax puts the median household 11% below Ireland (€60,120). Co. Dublin comes in at €71,120 at the median.
Only 19% of Cherry Orchard’s 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.
Another language is spoken at home by 16%, most often Polish (2.4%); 1.6% speak English not well or not at all. On residents with another country’s citizenship, Cherry Orchard sits lower than 54% of Irish towns: 14%. The usual figure: 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Only 0.5% of residents speak Irish daily outside education in Cherry Orchard
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 1,381 residents (21% of those aged 3 and over). Set beside that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 79% of Irish towns, at 13%
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: 78% of Cherry Orchard · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
73% of residents said they are Catholic; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 71%. The benchmark for residents with no religion across Ireland’s towns: 17%. Next after White Irish come Other White (9.2%), Asian or Asian Irish (4.6%) and Black or Black Irish (3.4%). On residents who describe themselves as White Irish, Cherry Orchard sits lower than 51% of Irish towns: 78%.
In Cherry Orchard, 22% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 98% 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 are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 4.6%. Measured more widely, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
In Cherry Orchard, 16% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 95% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Across Ireland’s towns, one in ten adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Cherry Orchard, 20%, and 5.3% hold a postgraduate qualification. Against that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
41 towns of 7,155 to 9,669 people: this is the 4th youngest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Temple Bar (31.4) and the oldest Dalkey (50.3). Nearest to Cherry Orchard in age: Grand Canal Dock (32.1), Dubber (32.5), Kilcock (33.1) and Clongriffin (33.7).
No nearby town is as young as Cherry Orchard
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Orchard | 8,280 | — | 33 | 6.8% | 49% |
| Carna | 2,897 | 0.5 km | 39.5 | 17% | 43% |
| Ballyfermot | 3,632 | 1.1 km | 38.8 | 17% | 41% |
| Kylemore | 2,557 | 1.3 km | 39 | 16% | 42% |
| Palmerston | 11,012 | 1.6 km | 40.4 | 18% | 42% |
| Ronanstown | 11,130 | 1.8 km | 35.9 | 14% | 49% |
| Decies | 2,713 | 1.8 km | 41.2 | 18% | 39% |
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 Cherry Orchard’s residents
What is the population of Cherry Orchard?
Cherry Orchard had 8,280 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Cherry Orchard?
The median age is 33, younger than 93% of Irish towns. 25% are under 18 and 6.8% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Cherry Orchard?
21% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,381 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Cherry Orchard?
78% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 19% were born abroad and 14% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Cherry Orchard?
73% are Catholic, 13% have no religion and 14% another religion; 18% didn’t say.
Is Cherry Orchard good for families?
49% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Cherry Orchard are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Cherry Orchard?
Median gross household income in Cherry Orchard was €53,280 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).