Photo: shaun12246 · CC BY-SA 3.028% of households have no car or van, more than in 80% of Irish towns
77% of residents said they are Catholic, against 71% across Ireland’s towns. The census found that 14% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Kilmore. Few places have so few one-person households: 22% here, fewer than in 62% of Irish towns. The neighbourhood had 9,786 residents in 3,431 households at the 2022 Census.
What stands out about the people of Kilmore
Fewer people than before
Kilmore went from about 9,860 people in 2016 to 9,786 in 2022, −1%: slower growth than in 96% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Many carers
About 670 residents (6.8%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 95% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
−1% since 2016: slower than 96% 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%.
Older than 67% of Irish towns: half of Kilmore is over 39
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 50–54: 8.6% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns. In Kilmore, 14% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Kilmore, 39. 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%.
Kilmore ranks below 94% of Irish towns on residents who moved in within the year: 4.2%
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
In Kilmore, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 26% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 19%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The benchmark for residents who moved in within the year across Ireland’s towns: 7.5%.
Kilmore households average 2.9 people, larger than in 75% 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.
Compared with other places, shared households of unrelated adults are scarce here: 4.4%, fewer than in 55% of Irish towns. On the census count, 43% of households are parents with children.
88% of homes are houses
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
Internet at home: broadband for 89%, nothing for 9.4% (typical: 7.6%). Holiday homes are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Irish towns. The census found that 12% of households live in a flat or apartment in Kilmore.
The midpoint household income is €57,760 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €57,760 a year before tax, the median household income is near that of Ireland (€60,120). Co. Dublin comes in at €71,120 at the median.
Kilmore sits below 87% of Irish towns for residents born outside Ireland (15%)
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.
14% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (1.2%); 1.4% speak English not well or not at all. Residents born outside Ireland make up 22% across Ireland’s towns. On residents with another country’s citizenship, Kilmore sits lower than 84% of Irish towns: 8.7%.
27% of Kilmore can speak Irish
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
Within Co. Dublin, Monkstown has the largest share, 2.5%. 0.9% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, a lower share than in 65% of Irish towns.
85% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, a share 77% of Irish towns don’t reach
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: 85% of Kilmore · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (6.5%), Asian or Asian Irish (5.2%) and Other, including mixed (1.9%). Fewer residents with no religion than in 73% of Irish towns: 14%. Set beside that, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns.
Only 31% of residents 15 and over are married in Kilmore
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.
6.8% of residents give unpaid care, against 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher make up 19% in Kilmore, less than in 90% of Irish towns
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 5.3% of adults here, while 19% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns).
Of 41 towns its size (8,505 to 11,149 people), the 18th oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Kilcock is the youngest (33.1); Donaghmede the oldest (43.8). Nearest to Kilmore in age: Waterford City Centre (38.8), Trim (38.9), Finglas North (39.4) and Ballina (39.5).
Kilmore and its 6 nearest towns: 3 of them are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
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 Kilmore’s residents
What is the population of Kilmore?
Kilmore had 9,786 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Kilmore?
The median age is 39, older than 67% of Irish towns. 21% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Kilmore?
27% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (2,316 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Kilmore?
85% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 8.7% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Kilmore?
77% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 9.6% another religion; 8.3% didn’t say.
Is Kilmore good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 21% of residents are under 18. Schools near Kilmore are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Kilmore?
Median gross household income in Kilmore was €57,760 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).