Photo: William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland · CC BY-SA 2.0Donaghmede is older than 96% of Irish towns: a median age of 43.8
3.9% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. Donaghmede counted 9,616 residents and 3,559 households at the 2022 Census. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 89% of the total. Lower than in 64% of Irish towns: 21% of households are one person living alone.
What stands out about the people of Donaghmede
Older than most towns
Half of Donaghmede’s residents are under 43.8 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 23% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Fewer people than before
Donaghmede went from about 9,770 people in 2016 to 9,616 in 2022, −2%: slower growth than in 97% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Donaghmede changed by −2% from 2016 to 2022, slower than 97% 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%.
Residents aged 65 and over: 23%, a higher share than 95% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 11%, below nearly two thirds of Irish towns. Across the comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Donaghmede, 43.8. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
Donaghmede ranks below 90% of Irish towns on residents who moved in within the year: 4.6%
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
One in ten residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns, against 8.5% in Donaghmede. On average, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 3.5% in Donaghmede, less than in 71% 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, 41% of households are parents with children here. The wider picture: 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns. Households here average 2.7 people each.
20% of households have no car or van, more than in 62% 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
93% of households are on broadband; 6.1% have no internet connection (typical: 7.6%). Typically, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Household income at the median: €58,260 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €58,260 a year here, close to Ireland (€60,120). Countywide, Co. Dublin has a median of €71,120.
Only 12% of Donaghmede’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.
7.3% of residents are citizens of another country; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 15%. The benchmark for residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns: 22%. The most common home language after English is Spanish (0.9%); in all 10% speak another language, and 1% speak English not well or not at all.
In Donaghmede, Irish is spoken by 33% of residents
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
2,892 residents, a third of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Donaghmede has more daily speakers of Irish outside education than 52% of Irish towns, at 1.1%.
Donaghmede ranks above 72% of Irish towns on residents who said they are Catholic: 75%
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: 89% of Donaghmede · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (5.9%), Asian or Asian Irish (2%) and Other, including mixed (2%). 18% of residents said they have no religion, a higher share than in 55% of Irish towns. As a reference point, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of married residents 15 and over than 78% of Irish towns, at 38%
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: 6.7% here and 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
In Donaghmede, 25% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 77% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, nearly one in ten adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 18% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Typically, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Ranked by age, 1st oldest of 41 towns this size
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 32.1 in Grand Canal Dock to 43.8 in Donaghmede. Nearest to Donaghmede in age: Raheny (42.8) and Monkstown (43).
Older than Donaghmede: 2 of the 6 towns nearby
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
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 Donaghmede’s residents
What is the population of Donaghmede?
Donaghmede had 9,616 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 2% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Donaghmede?
The median age is 43.8, older than 96% of Irish towns. 18% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Donaghmede?
33% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (2,892 people), and 1.1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Donaghmede?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 7.3% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Donaghmede?
75% are Catholic, 18% have no religion and 6.9% another religion; 4.7% didn’t say.
Is Donaghmede good for families?
41% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 18% of residents are under 18. Schools near Donaghmede are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Donaghmede?
Median gross household income in Donaghmede was €58,260 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).