Photo: Ridiculopathy · CC0Younger than 95% of Irish towns: half of Jobstown is under 32.4
The typical household size is 3.2 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. On one-person households, Jobstown sits lower than 93% of Irish towns: 15%. At the 2022 Census Jobstown was home to 23,437 people in 7,439 households. In Jobstown, 70% of residents describe themselves as White Irish.
What stands out about the people of Jobstown
Younger than most towns
Half of Jobstown’s residents are under 32.4 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 16% are 15 to 24 and 6.8% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
A neighbourhood of families
34% of households are couples with children and 21% lone parents with children, more than in 92% of Irish towns; 24% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
From 2016 to 2022, 83% of Irish towns grew faster than Jobstown: +2%
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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +6% across Co. Dublin’s towns.
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 91% of Irish towns: 6.8%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Across Ireland’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24; in Jobstown, 16%. Elsewhere, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. More residents are 40–44 than any other five-year age: one in ten residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Jobstown, 32.4. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
In Jobstown, 13% of residents 15 and over are students, more than in 81% 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, 34% of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Jobstown, 26% and 20%. 6.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
A higher share of households of parents with children than 92% of Irish towns, at 55%
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.
Here, 5.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. As a yardstick, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
18% of households live in a flat, more than in 71% 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 home, 92% have broadband, while 5.5% have no internet access (typical: 7.6%). By way of comparison, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Households without a car or van: 22% of the total. Compared with other places, holiday homes are scarce here: 0.1%, fewer than in 74% of Irish towns.
Median household income here: €58,700 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
A median gross household income of €58,700 sits close to Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Dublin, the figure is €71,120.
Residents born outside Ireland: 23%, a higher share than 54% 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.
Most residents from abroad were born outside the EU and UK (9.4%) or elsewhere in the EU (5.1%). By way of comparison, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. At 15%, residents with another country’s citizenship sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns.
Can speak Irish: 29% of Jobstown’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
No town in Co. Dublin beats Monkstown (2.5%). On daily speakers of Irish outside education, Jobstown sits lower than nearly two thirds of Irish towns: 0.9%.
66% of residents said they are Catholic, below 69% 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: 70% of Jobstown · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (11%), Black or Black Irish (7.6%) and Asian or Asian Irish (7.4%). 15% of residents said they have no religion, a lower share than in 65% of Irish towns. Typically, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer married residents 15 and over than 86% of Irish towns: 28%
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.
Jobstown sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 4.8%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 86% of Irish towns, at 22%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
6.3% of Jobstown’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 14% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The share of adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns is 36%.
1st lowest median age among 41 towns of 18,239 to 27,923
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Jobstown (32.4), the youngest, and Beaumont (42.9), the oldest. Nearest to Jobstown in age: The Liberties (32.5) and Stoneybatter (33.4).
5 of the 6 nearest towns are older than Jobstown
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jobstown | 23,437 | — | 32.4 | 6.8% | 55% |
| Fettercairn | 12,970 | 1.2 km | 32.5 | 8.9% | 54% |
| Saggart | 4,573 | 2.5 km | 32 | 6.1% | 46% |
| Tallaght | 15,588 | 2.6 km | 36.3 | 16% | 42% |
| Old Bawn | 18,758 | 3.0 km | 38 | 16% | 47% |
| Bohernabreena | 4,613 | 3.6 km | 35.6 | 8.8% | 60% |
| Rathcoole | 5,792 | 4.3 km | 37 | 13% | 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 Jobstown’s residents
What is the population of Jobstown?
Jobstown had 23,437 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Jobstown?
The median age is 32.4, younger than 95% of Irish towns. 30% are under 18 and 6.8% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Jobstown?
29% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (5,883 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Jobstown?
70% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 23% were born abroad and 15% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Jobstown?
66% are Catholic, 15% have no religion and 19% another religion; 9.1% didn’t say.
Is Jobstown good for families?
55% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Jobstown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Jobstown?
Median gross household income in Jobstown was €58,700 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).