Photo: Treehill · CC BY-SA 4.0More households of parents with children than 97% of Irish towns: 59%
6.6% of residents are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Lusk counted 8,806 residents and 2,737 households at the 2022 Census. On the census count, 5.7% of households live in a flat or apartment. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White Irish are scarce here: 74%, fewer than in 63% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Lusk
A town of families
47% of households are couples with children and 12% lone parents with children, more than in 97% of Irish towns; 27% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Lusk grew +12% from 2016 to 2022, faster than 74% 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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +6% across Co. Dublin’s towns.
Younger than 77% of Irish towns: half of Lusk is under 35.3
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 12%; Lusk has 14%. In Dalkey, the oldest of Co. Dublin’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Lusk, 35.3. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Lusk: 13% of residents 15 and over are students, above 84% 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
The occupation that stands out is administrative and secretarial: 14%, where 9.8% is typical. Lusk has fewer residents who moved in within the year than 60% of Irish towns, at 6.8%. Against that, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Below 98% of Irish towns: 12% of households are one person living alone
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.
Households in Lusk hold 3.2 people on average (Ireland’s towns: 2.7). The wider picture: nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 3.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Fewer car-free households than 90% of Irish towns: 6.5%
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
The share of households with broadband is 95%; 3.6% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Every 15th household or so has no car or van. In Lusk, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes.
Households here have a median income of €78,650 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €78,650 a year here, 31% above Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Dublin, the figure is €71,120.
Residents with another country’s citizenship: 14%, a lower 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 (7.9%) or elsewhere in the EU (7.4%). Residents born outside Ireland are more common here than in 52% of Irish towns. The benchmark for residents with another country’s citizenship across Ireland’s towns: 15%.
Irish: 39% of Lusk’s residents can speak it
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%). 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, a higher share than in 52% of Irish towns.
Below 61% of Irish towns: 69% of residents said they are Catholic
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: 74% of Lusk · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (15%), Asian or Asian Irish (4.1%) and Black or Black Irish (3.9%). Across Ireland’s towns, residents who said they are Catholic come to 71%. Lusk has more residents with no religion than 56% of Irish towns, at 18%.
Married residents 15 and over: 37%, a higher share than 68% 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.
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 4.9%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
36% of adults have 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
Across Ireland’s towns, 9.7% of adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Lusk, 7.3%, and 11% hold a postgraduate qualification. More adults with a degree or higher than in 50% of Irish towns: 36%.
Youngest by rank: 9th of 41 towns of 7,687 to 10,117 people
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Grand Canal Dock (32.1), the youngest, and Dalkey (50.3), the oldest. Nearest to Lusk in age: Ratoath (34.6), Sandyford (35.2), Donabate (35.6) and Hollyhill and Ballincolly (35.7).
Lusk is younger than every town around it
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 Lusk’s residents
What is the population of Lusk?
Lusk had 8,806 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 12% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Lusk?
The median age is 35.3, younger than 77% of Irish towns. 32% are under 18 and 6.6% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Lusk?
39% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (3,090 people), and 1.1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Lusk?
74% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 23% were born abroad and 14% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Lusk?
69% are Catholic, 18% have no religion and 13% another religion; 6.1% didn’t say.
Is Lusk good for families?
59% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 32% of residents are under 18. Schools near Lusk are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Lusk?
Median gross household income in Lusk was €78,650 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).