Photo: Zenit · CC BY-SA 3.0Malahide is older than 89% of Irish towns: a median age of 42
Where 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns, Malahide has 7.3%. At the same time, the town has more residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 84% of Irish towns, at 86%. The 2022 Census put the town’s population at 18,608, in 6,523 households. For Malahide, the census puts households of parents with children at 48%.
What stands out about the people of Malahide
Older than most towns
Half of Malahide’s residents are under 42 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 17% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
From 2016 to 2022, 52% of Irish towns grew faster than Malahide: +7%
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 Co. Dublin’s towns the median is +6%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
Above 76% of Irish towns: 17% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 45–49 than any other five-year age: 7.9% of residents. Lower than in 56% of Irish towns: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24. On average, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Dalkey, the oldest of Co. Dublin’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Malahide, 42. 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%.
12% of residents 15 and over are students, a share 76% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
31% of workers are in professional occupations, against a typical 21%. Few places have as many residents who moved in within the year: 7.8% here, more than in 56% of Irish towns. Measured more widely, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 87% of Irish towns: 2.6%
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.
Nearly a fifth of households are one person living alone (Ireland’s towns: 24%). As a yardstick, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns.
Households in flats make up 17% in Malahide, more than in 69% 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
Broadband: 96% of households. At 0.7%, the share of holiday homes is higher than in 76% of Irish towns. As a yardstick, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. No internet at all: 2.7% (typical: 7.6%).
Households here have a median income of €97,170 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€97,170 a year before tax puts the median household 62% above Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Dublin, the middle household has €71,120.
Malahide sits below 76% of Irish towns for residents with another country’s citizenship (9.9%)
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.
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the UK (7.3%) and outside the EU and UK (5.9%). Few places have so few residents born outside Ireland: 18% here, fewer than in just over two thirds of Irish towns. The wider picture: 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
Only 0.9% of residents speak Irish daily outside education in Malahide
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
Top of Co. Dublin: Monkstown, at 2.5%. The comparison figure for daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of residents with no religion than 69% of Irish towns: 21%
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: 86% of Malahide · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (9.6%), Asian or Asian Irish (2%) and Other, including mixed (1.6%). As a yardstick, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Malahide has fewer residents who said they are Catholic than 53% of Irish towns, at 71%.
45% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 98% 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.
At 6%, the share of unpaid carers is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher make up 56% in Malahide, more than in 87% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, 23% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 3.7% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. The share of adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns is 36%.
Among 41 towns of 15,296 to 22,549 people, the 7th oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
East Wall is the youngest (31.2); Ballinteer the oldest (44.1). Nearest to Malahide in age: Wexford (40.6), Clonmel (40.7), Dún Laoghaire (42.1) and Clontarf East (42.5).
Every nearby town is younger than Malahide
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malahide | 18,608 | — | 42 | 17% | 48% |
| Kinsealy-Drinan | 7,526 | 2.6 km | 34.4 | 3.9% | 53% |
| Portmarnock | 10,750 | 2.8 km | 41.2 | 21% | 45% |
| Swords | 40,776 | 4.7 km | 36.9 | 9.7% | 50% |
| Belmayne | 15,047 | 4.7 km | 33.8 | 6.8% | 52% |
| Clongriffin | 7,438 | 4.8 km | 33.7 | 6.8% | 44% |
| Donabate | 9,669 | 5.1 km | 35.6 | 5.6% | 59% |
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 Malahide’s residents
What is the population of Malahide?
Malahide had 18,608 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 7% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Malahide?
The median age is 42, older than 89% of Irish towns. 24% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Malahide?
48% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (8,370 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Malahide?
86% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 9.9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Malahide?
71% are Catholic, 21% have no religion and 8.7% another religion; 3% didn’t say.
Is Malahide good for families?
48% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 24% of residents are under 18. Schools near Malahide are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Malahide?
Median gross household income in Malahide was €97,170 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).