Photo: Kieran Campbell · CC BY-SA 2.0Garristown ranks above 99% of Irish towns on households of parents with children: 63%
By its share of households in flats (1.2%), Garristown is below 98% of Irish towns. This Co. Dublin town had 619 residents in 168 households at the 2022 Census. The census found that 14% of households are one person living alone in the town. The median age in the town is 34.9, lower than in 81% of Irish towns.
A +11% change since 2016: faster than 67% 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%.
Garristown: 17% of residents are aged 15 to 24, above 94% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
With residents aged 65 and over at 9%, Garristown is behind 83% of Irish towns on that count. The wider picture: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Garristown: 15% of residents 15 and over are students, above 93% 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
Where 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns, Garristown has 3.8%. By way of comparison, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Bigger households than 99% of Irish towns: 3.4 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.
Garristown sits below 99% of Irish towns for households without a car or van (3.1%)
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
91% have broadband at home and 6.3% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). For comparison, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
Median household income: €75,550 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€75,550 a year before tax puts the median household 26% above Ireland (€60,120). County median: €71,120 (Co. Dublin).
Above 67% of Irish towns: 26% of 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.
Another language is spoken at home by 25%, most often Polish (3.1%); 6.3% speak English not well or not at all. Elsewhere, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. The share of residents with another country’s citizenship is 14%, against 15% across Ireland’s towns.
An Irish-speaking town: 1.6% speak it daily 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
Speakers of Irish: 213 residents, 37% of those aged 3 and over. By way of comparison, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 87% of Irish towns, at 64%
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: 64% of Garristown · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
57% of residents said they are Catholic (Ireland’s towns: 71%). Compared with other places, residents with no religion are common here: 19%, more than in 63% of Irish towns. Typically, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns.
40% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 91% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care; in Garristown, 6.9%. Typically, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher make up 30% in Garristown, less than in 66% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Still in education: 20% of residents 15 and over. Adults with a degree or higher make up 36% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, one in ten adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Garristown, 9.3%, and 9.6% hold a postgraduate qualification.
A younger town than 3 of the 6 around it: Garristown
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
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 Garristown’s residents
What is the population of Garristown?
Garristown had 619 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 11% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Garristown?
The median age is 34.9. 29% are under 18 and 9% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Garristown?
37% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (213 people), and 1.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Garristown?
64% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 26% were born abroad and 14% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Garristown?
57% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 23% another religion; 3.2% didn’t say.
Is Garristown good for families?
63% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 29% of residents are under 18. Schools near Garristown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Garristown?
Median gross household income in Garristown was €75,550 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).