Photo: JPMcCann80 · CC0In Decies, 0.1% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 99% of Irish towns
With residents who said they are Catholic at 80%, Decies is ahead of 90% of Irish towns on that count. At the 2022 Census Decies was home to 2,713 people in 1,057 households. Households of parents with children account for 39%. The neighbourhood has more one-person households than just over three fifths of Irish towns, at 26%.
What stands out about the people of Decies
Older than most towns
Half of Decies’s residents are under 41.2 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 18% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A +1% change since 2016: slower than 86% 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.
Older than 86% of Irish towns: half of Decies is over 41.2
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, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 18% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Decies, 41.2. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
2.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 98% 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
17% of workers are in elementary occupations, against a typical 11%. As a yardstick, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns. The share of students among residents 15 and over stands at 7.9%.
Smaller households than 65% of Irish towns: 2.6 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.
At 3.8%, shared households of unrelated adults sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns.
Above 87% of Irish towns: 34% of households have no car or van
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. Elsewhere, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Connected households: 84% on broadband; 14% offline (typical: 7.6%).
€46,890 a year: the median household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of households are below €46,890 a year before tax: 22% under the Ireland median (€60,120). Countywide in Co. Dublin, the median is €71,120.
Only 6.8% of Decies’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.
The share of residents with another country’s citizenship is 4%, against 15% across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born elsewhere in the EU (2.4%) and in the UK (2%).
Fewer daily speakers of Irish outside education than 90% of Irish towns: 0.6%
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
Irish speakers number 502, or just over a fifth of residents aged 3 and over. Set beside that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 99% of Irish towns: 93%
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: 93% of Decies · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (3.5%), Other, including mixed (1.3%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.8%). Lower than in 77% of Irish towns: 13% of residents said they have no religion. Across Ireland’s towns, residents who describe themselves as White Irish come to 78%.
In Decies, 29% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 83% 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.
In Decies, 5.3% of residents give unpaid care. Nearly three fifths of the neighbourhood’s residents 15 and over are single and 29% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 97% of Irish towns, at 13%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, 3.9% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 28% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of adults with a degree or higher is 36%.
Of 41 towns its size (2,510 to 3,211 people), the 8th oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Kilbarry (30.4), the youngest, and Ballybrack (45.5), the oldest. Nearest to Decies in age: Kenmare (40.3), Donegal (41.2), Togher (41.7) and Castleisland (42.4).
No nearby town is as old as Decies
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decies | 2,713 | — | 41.2 | 18% | 39% |
| Kylemore | 2,557 | 0.5 km | 39 | 16% | 42% |
| Chapelizod | 4,862 | 0.9 km | 38.9 | 16% | 22% |
| Inchicore | 5,285 | 1.1 km | 36.8 | 14% | 31% |
| Ballyfermot | 3,632 | 1.3 km | 38.8 | 17% | 41% |
| Carna | 2,897 | 1.4 km | 39.5 | 17% | 43% |
| Kilmainham | 10,240 | 1.7 km | 36.7 | 12% | 27% |
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 Decies’s residents
What is the population of Decies?
Decies had 2,713 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 1% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Decies?
The median age is 41.2, older than 86% of Irish towns. 20% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Decies?
22% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (502 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Decies?
93% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 6.8% were born abroad and 4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Decies?
80% are Catholic, 13% have no religion and 6.7% another religion; 11% didn’t say.
Is Decies good for families?
39% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Decies are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Decies?
Median gross household income in Decies was €46,890 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).