A median age of 44.1: Edenmore is older than 97% of Irish towns
By its share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish (88%), Edenmore is above 91% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 2,831 residents and 1,007 households locally. In Edenmore, 30% of households have no car or van. Two in five households are parents with children, fewer than in 64% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Edenmore
Older than most towns
Half of Edenmore’s residents are under 44.1 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 24% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Fewer people than before
Edenmore went from about 2,840 people in 2016 to 2,831 in 2022, ±0%: slower growth than in 93% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
±0% since 2016, a pace below 93% 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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +6% across Co. Dublin’s towns.
Residents aged 65 and over: 24%, a higher share than 97% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
85+ is the most common age band: 7.8% of residents, 5.2 times the share across Ireland’s towns. On residents aged 15 to 24, Edenmore sits lower than 75% of Irish towns: 11%. The usual figure: 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Edenmore, 44.1. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 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.
Only 6.7% of residents 15 and over are students in Edenmore
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
5.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, against 7.5% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
In Edenmore, 3.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 68% 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.
A household here has 2.7 people on average; across Ireland’s towns, 2.7. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is 4.7%. One-person households account for 24%.
Households in flats make up 9.9% in Edenmore, less than in 64% 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
At 0.1%, holiday homes sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. The benchmark for households in flats across Ireland’s towns: 12%.
€52,330 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 €52,330 a year before tax: 13% under the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Dublin as a whole, the figure is €71,120.
Only 12% of Edenmore’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.
Most residents from abroad were born outside the EU and UK (3.8%) or in the UK (3.6%). On residents with another country’s citizenship, Edenmore sits lower than 91% of Irish towns: 7.4%. The benchmark for residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns: 22%.
Only 0.9% of residents speak Irish daily outside education in Edenmore
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 754, or 30% of residents aged 3 and over. The highest share in Co. Dublin belongs to Monkstown (2.5%). Set beside that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Above 78% of Irish towns: 77% of residents said they are Catholic
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: 88% of Edenmore · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (6.3%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.5%) and Irish Traveller (1%). To put it in context, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. 18% of residents said they have no religion, a higher share than in 53% of Irish towns.
More unpaid carers than 93% of Irish towns: 6.7% of residents
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.
Against a figure of 34% across Ireland’s towns, the share of married residents 15 and over in Edenmore comes in at 32%. For comparison, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
Below 88% of Irish towns: 20% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, 6.3% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 18% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Ranked by age, 2nd oldest of 41 towns this size
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 Edenmore in age: Boyle (43.8), Kilrush (44.1) and Ballybrack (45.5).
No nearby town is as old as Edenmore
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edenmore | 2,831 | — | 44.1 | 24% | 40% |
| Harmonstown | 5,769 | 0.8 km | 41.6 | 19% | 40% |
| Ayrfield | 5,863 | 0.8 km | 41.7 | 20% | 43% |
| Donaghmede | 9,616 | 1.3 km | 43.8 | 23% | 41% |
| Raheny | 8,734 | 1.7 km | 42.8 | 22% | 39% |
| Darndale | 14,675 | 1.8 km | 36.1 | 13% | 48% |
| Belmayne | 15,047 | 1.9 km | 33.8 | 6.8% | 52% |
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 Edenmore’s residents
What is the population of Edenmore?
Edenmore had 2,831 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Edenmore?
The median age is 44.1, older than 97% of Irish towns. 18% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Edenmore?
30% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (754 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Edenmore?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 7.4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Edenmore?
77% are Catholic, 18% have no religion and 5.7% another religion; 6.9% didn’t say.
Is Edenmore good for families?
40% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 18% of residents are under 18. Schools near Edenmore are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Edenmore?
Median gross household income in Edenmore was €52,330 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).