Photo: Sarah777 · Public domainFirhouse: 56% of households are parents with children, above 93% of Irish towns
Households in Firhouse hold 3.1 people on average (Ireland’s towns: 2.7). The neighbourhood had 12,254 residents in 3,945 households at the 2022 Census. For Firhouse, the census puts households without a car or van at 5.2%. With a median age of 36.3, Firhouse is younger than just over two thirds of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Firhouse
A neighbourhood of families
45% of households are couples with children and 11% lone parents with children, more than in 93% of Irish towns; 23% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Growing more slowly than most
Firhouse went from about 12,210 people in 2016 to 12,254 in 2022, ±0%: slower growth than in 91% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Firhouse’s population moved ±0% on 2016, less than in 91% 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.
A lower share of residents aged 65 and over than 77% of Irish towns, at 10%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 40–44 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents. Compared with other places, residents aged 15 to 24 are common here: 14%, more than in nearly four fifths of Irish towns. In Dalkey, the oldest of Co. Dublin’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Firhouse, 36.3. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
A higher share of students among residents 15 and over than 82% of Irish towns, at 13%
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
The occupation that stands out is administrative and secretarial: 14%, where 9.8% is typical. The usual figure: 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 5.6% of the total.
Firhouse ranks below 88% of Irish towns on one-person households: 16%
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.
Against a figure of 4.7% across Ireland’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults in Firhouse comes in at 3.2%. The wider picture: nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer flats than 58% of Irish towns: 11% of households
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
Home broadband covers 97% of households, while 2.7% go without the internet (typical: 7.6%). Across Ireland’s towns, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
Median household income: €80,900 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
The median household earns €80,900 gross, 35% more than the Ireland median (€60,120). In Co. Dublin overall, the median comes to €71,120.
A smaller share of residents with another country’s citizenship than 76% of Irish towns: 10%
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 (8.4%) or elsewhere in the EU (3.5%). On residents born outside Ireland, Firhouse sits lower than 73% of Irish towns: 18%. Across Ireland’s towns, 15% of residents are citizens of another country.
1.3% of residents speak Irish every day outside education
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 4,957, or 44% of residents aged 3 and over. Daily speakers of Irish outside education make up 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
67% of residents said they are Catholic, fewer than in 68% 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: 81% of Firhouse · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Just over four in five residents describe themselves as White Irish, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. More residents with no religion than in nearly two thirds of Irish towns: 20%. Elsewhere, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (8%), Asian or Asian Irish (4.5%) and Other, including mixed (3.8%).
38% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 81% 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.
On unpaid carers, 5.8% here is much the same as across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of adults with a degree or higher than 63% of Irish towns: 42%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Across Ireland’s towns, one in ten adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Firhouse, 5.4%, and 14% hold a postgraduate qualification. On average, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
In its size band (10,556 to 14,412), the 12th youngest of 41 towns
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 29.4 in Clonskeagh to 44.7 in Foxrock. Nearest to Firhouse in age: Ronanstown (35.9), Cavan (36.1), Gorey (36.4) and Sallynoggin (36.6).
Firhouse and its 6 nearest towns: 4 of them are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firhouse | 12,254 | — | 36.3 | 10% | 56% |
| Knocklyon | 13,854 | 1.3 km | 36.9 | 13% | 55% |
| Bohernabreena | 4,613 | 1.5 km | 35.6 | 8.8% | 60% |
| Old Bawn | 18,758 | 1.8 km | 38 | 16% | 47% |
| Ballyboden | 5,246 | 2.2 km | 41.5 | 18% | 50% |
| Kilnamanagh | 11,703 | 2.6 km | 41.2 | 22% | 42% |
| Tallaght | 15,588 | 2.9 km | 36.3 | 16% | 42% |
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 Firhouse’s residents
What is the population of Firhouse?
Firhouse had 12,254 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Firhouse?
The median age is 36.3, younger than 68% of Irish towns. 28% are under 18 and 10% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Firhouse?
44% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (4,957 people), and 1.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Firhouse?
81% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 10% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Firhouse?
67% are Catholic, 20% have no religion and 14% another religion; 3.8% didn’t say.
Is Firhouse good for families?
56% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 28% of residents are under 18. Schools near Firhouse are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Firhouse?
Median gross household income in Firhouse was €80,900 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).