Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 86% of Irish towns, at 19%
By its share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish (85%), Churchtown is above four fifths of Irish towns. In 2022, the Census found 10,044 residents in the neighbourhood, living in 3,663 households. For Churchtown, the census puts households in flats at 9.5%.
What stands out about the people of Churchtown
Many older residents
19% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 86% of Irish towns; 5.6% are 80 or over, and 25% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Churchtown changed by +6% from 2016 to 2022, slower than 59% 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 typical town changed +8%; across Co. Dublin’s towns, +6%.
Churchtown is older than 81% of Irish towns: a median age of 40.5
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 12%. The biggest five-year age group is 40–44, with 7.2% of residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Churchtown, 40.5. 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%.
Churchtown ranks above 57% of Irish towns on students among residents 15 and over: 11%
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
By occupation, professional occupations are over-represented: 38%, against a typical 21%. As a reference point, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. In Churchtown, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Bigger households than 56% of Irish towns: 2.7 people each 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.
For Churchtown, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 5.3%. Households of parents with children make up 42%, against 43% across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer car-free households than 65% of Irish towns: 14%
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
93% have broadband at home and 6.2% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Elsewhere, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Here, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes.
Household income at the median: €88,650 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 €88,650 a year, 47% more than the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Dublin as a whole, the figure is €71,120.
Residents with another country’s citizenship make up 9.5% in Churchtown, less than in 79% 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.
14% speak a language other than English at home, Spanish most of all (2%); 1.2% speak English not well or not at all. Typically, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Few places have so few residents born outside Ireland: 17% here, fewer than in 76% of Irish towns.
Churchtown ranks above 81% of Irish towns on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 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
Top of Co. Dublin: Monkstown, at 2.5%. By way of comparison, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
25% said they have no religion, more than in 84% 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 Churchtown · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, 71% of residents said they are Catholic; in Churchtown, 62%. Set beside that, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Besides White Irish, the main groups are Other White (7.8%), Asian or Asian Irish (3.1%) and Other, including mixed (2.5%).
Churchtown: 40% of residents 15 and over are married, above 89% 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.
Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 6.2%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of adults with a degree or higher than 89% of Irish towns, at 58%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate: just over a quarter of adults. Typically, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Primary level or earlier: 7.6%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
41 towns of 8,674 to 11,703 people: this is the 12th oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Kilcock (33.1), the youngest, and Donaghmede (43.8), the oldest. Nearest to Churchtown in age: Palmerston (40.4), Dungarvan (40.5), Skerries (40.7) and Tramore (40.7).
Around Churchtown, 2 of 6 towns have a higher median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Churchtown | 10,044 | — | 40.5 | 19% | 42% |
| Rathgar | 5,768 | 1.6 km | 34.2 | 18% | 30% |
| Rathfarnham | 17,508 | 1.7 km | 43.3 | 22% | 42% |
| Dundrum | 16,570 | 1.8 km | 37 | 15% | 37% |
| Ballinteer | 16,038 | 2.0 km | 44.1 | 24% | 41% |
| Clonskeagh | 14,142 | 2.1 km | 29.4 | 12% | 32% |
| Terenure | 10,391 | 2.7 km | 39.6 | 17% | 36% |
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 Churchtown’s residents
What is the population of Churchtown?
Churchtown had 10,044 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Churchtown?
The median age is 40.5, older than 81% of Irish towns. 22% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Churchtown?
46% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (4,370 people), and 1.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Churchtown?
85% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 17% were born abroad and 9.5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Churchtown?
62% are Catholic, 25% have no religion and 13% another religion; 2.2% didn’t say.
Is Churchtown good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Churchtown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Churchtown?
Median gross household income in Churchtown was €88,650 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).