Photo: N Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 86% of Irish towns: 5.3% of households live in a flat or apartment
Residents who said they are Catholic make up 78%, against 71% across Ireland’s towns. Households of parents with children: 40% of the total. At 13%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is higher than in 64% of Irish towns. Finglas North had 9,805 residents in 3,592 households at the 2022 Census.
Finglas North changed by +2% from 2016 to 2022, 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, the typical town changed +8%; across Co. Dublin’s towns, +6%.
A median age of 39.4: Finglas North is older than 71% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The share of residents aged 65 and over tops just over three fifths of Irish towns: 15%. In Dalkey, the oldest of Co. Dublin’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Finglas North, 39.4. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Finglas North sits below 95% of Irish towns for residents who moved in within the year (3.9%)
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
Nearly one in ten residents 15 and over are students; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 10%. The share of residents who moved in within the year across Ireland’s towns is 7.5%.
Bigger households than 61% 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.
Little separates the share of shared households of unrelated adults here, 5.6%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Here, 24% of households are one person living alone.
28% of households have no car or van, a share 81% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
10% of households have no internet access (typical: 7.6%); 88% have broadband. Against that, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Here, 0.1% of homes are holiday homes.
€53,890 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.
The median household earns €53,890 gross, 10% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Dublin as a whole, the figure is €71,120.
Residents born outside Ireland make up 11% in Finglas North, less than in 96% 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.
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are outside the EU and UK (3.7%) and elsewhere in the EU (3.1%). Lower than in 94% of Irish towns: 7.1% of residents are citizens of another country. Typically, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Can speak Irish: 27% of Finglas North’s 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
Daily speakers of Irish outside education are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 0.9%. The ability to speak Irish extends to 2,281 residents (27% of those aged 3 and over). The highest share in Co. Dublin belongs to Monkstown (2.5%).
More residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 86% of Irish towns: 87%
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: 87% of Finglas North · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (6%), Irish Traveller (2.6%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.9%). Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 78% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. Across Ireland’s towns, 17% of residents said they have no religion; in Finglas North, 16%.
30% of residents 15 and over are married, below 82% 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.
Where 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns, Finglas North has 6.6%. Against that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Below 93% of Irish towns: 18% 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
Postgraduate qualifications are held by 5.1% of adults here, while 20% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
In its size band (8,564 to 11,277), the 18th oldest of 41 towns
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Kilcock (33.1) and the oldest Donaghmede (43.8). Nearest to Finglas North in age: Trim (38.9), Kilmore (39), Ballina (39.5) and New Ross (39.5).
Of the 6 towns nearest Finglas North, 2 are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finglas North | 9,805 | — | 39.4 | 15% | 40% |
| Finglas South | 12,475 | 1.1 km | 37 | 14% | 44% |
| Dubber | 7,941 | 1.4 km | 32.5 | 2.1% | 48% |
| Ballygall | 11,704 | 1.8 km | 41.9 | 20% | 39% |
| Ballymun | 22,321 | 2.1 km | 36.6 | 13% | 41% |
| Ashtown | 14,937 | 2.5 km | 36.5 | 12% | 40% |
| Cabra West | 9,786 | 3.1 km | 40.8 | 19% | 34% |
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 Finglas North’s residents
What is the population of Finglas North?
Finglas North had 9,805 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Finglas North?
The median age is 39.4, older than 71% of Irish towns. 21% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Finglas North?
27% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (2,281 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Finglas North?
87% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 11% were born abroad and 7.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Finglas North?
78% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 6.3% another religion; 11% didn’t say.
Is Finglas North good for families?
40% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 21% of residents are under 18. Schools near Finglas North are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Finglas North?
Median gross household income in Finglas North was €53,890 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).