Photo: Sonse · CC BY 2.0Households in flats: 29%, a higher share than 81% of Irish towns
By its share of shared households of unrelated adults (9.1%), Dublin is above 78% of Irish towns. Compared with other places, households of parents with children are scarce here: 38%, fewer than in 72% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 1,263,219 residents and 455,323 households in the city. The share of residents who said they are Catholic stands at 62%.
Younger than 61% of Irish towns: half of Dublin is under 36.8
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 30–34: 8.3% of residents. At 13%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is higher than in 67% of Irish towns. In Dalkey, the oldest of Co. Dublin’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 9.5%, a higher share than 72% 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
Across Ireland’s towns, one in ten residents 15 and over are students; in Dublin, 11%. The usual figure: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Only 23% of households are one person living alone in Dublin
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.
Households here average 2.7 people each. For one-person households, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 24%.
In Dublin, 24% of households have no car or van, more than in 74% 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% have broadband at home and 5.7% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Every 4th household or so has no car or van. In Dublin, 0.3% of homes are holiday homes.
€70,220 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.
Gross household income has a median of €70,220 a year here, 17% above Ireland (€60,120). Co. Dublin as a whole has a median of €71,120.
19% of residents are citizens of another country, a share 69% of Irish towns don’t reach
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 two biggest birthplaces abroad are outside the EU and UK (11%) and elsewhere in the EU (6.5%). Measured more widely, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Just over a quarter of residents were born outside Ireland, more than in 67% of Irish towns.
36% of Dublin’s 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
Irish speakers number 398,329, or 36% of residents aged 3 and over. At 1.3%, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is higher than in 67% of Irish towns.
In Dublin, 23% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 74% 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: 74% of Dublin · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 78% across Ireland’s towns, 74% of residents describe themselves as White Irish in Dublin. Across Ireland’s towns, residents with no religion come to 17%. Other than White Irish, most residents describe themselves as Other White (13%), Asian or Asian Irish (6.7%) and Other, including mixed (3.5%).
Half of adults have never married
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.
The census found that 5.2% of residents give unpaid care in Dublin. Little separates the share of married residents 15 and over here, 34%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns.
Dublin: 46% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, above 71% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Dublin’s adults, 20% went on to postgraduate study and 9.5% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). As a yardstick, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
From a median age of 29 in Clonskeagh to 50 in Dalkey
The city’s 104 neighbourhoods, youngest first; each links its own page.
Dalkey is the oldest area, with 29% aged 65 or over; Clonskeagh the youngest (median age 29). Students cluster in Clonskeagh, where 33% of residents 15 and over are students. Families with children are most common in Esker (60% of households).
Of the 6 towns nearest Dublin, 1 are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin | 1,263,219 | — | 36.8 | 14% | 38% |
| The Liberties | 18,460 | 0.3 km | 32.5 | 7.5% | 20% |
| Christchurch | 6,778 | 0.8 km | 37.7 | 13% | 18% |
| Dolphins Barn | 18,799 | 0.8 km | 34.6 | 10% | 22% |
| Temple Bar | 7,276 | 1.3 km | 31.4 | 6.2% | 12% |
| Portobello | 5,732 | 1.5 km | 33.4 | 7.6% | 11% |
| Stoneybatter | 18,644 | 1.7 km | 33.4 | 7.2% | 16% |
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.
Questions about Dublin’s residents
What is the population of Dublin?
Dublin had 1,263,219 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its city boundary.
What is the average age in Dublin?
The median age is 36.8. 21% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Dublin?
36% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (398,329 people), and 1.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Dublin?
74% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 26% were born abroad and 19% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Dublin?
62% are Catholic, 23% have no religion and 15% another religion; 9.5% didn’t say.
Is Dublin good for families?
38% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 21% of residents are under 18. Schools near Dublin are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Dublin?
Median gross household income in Dublin was €70,220 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. 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).