Photo: jwd · CC BY-SA 2.0Shared households of unrelated adults make up 1.3% in Naul, less than in 99% of Irish towns
Households of parents with children: 56%, above 94% of Irish towns. There are 6% more residents than in 2016. Census figures put households without a car or van at 3.9% in Naul. More residents who describe themselves as White Irish than in 97% of Irish towns: 91%.
A +6% change since 2016: slower than 62% 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 across Ireland’s towns is +8%, and across Co. Dublin’s towns +6%.
Naul sits below 86% of Irish towns for residents aged 65 and over (8.3%)
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 10–14: one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Half of Naul’s residents are over 37.8, older than in 52% of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Naul: 11% of residents 15 and over are students, above 58% 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
53% of Naul’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 12% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Lower than in three fifths of Irish towns: 6.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Naul households average 3 people, larger than in 86% 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.
The figure for one-person households is 17% in Naul and 24% across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer households in flats than 82% 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
Broadband reaches nine in ten households; 4.4% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. For comparison, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
Median household income: €82,860 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
The median household earns €82,860 gross, 38% more than the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Dublin, the figure is €71,120.
Only 11% of Naul’s 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.
Residents with another country’s citizenship: 5% here and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Against that, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. The most common home language after English is French (2%); in all 8.9% speak another language, and 1.2% speak English not well or not at all.
49% of Naul 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
Irish speakers number 323, or nearly half of residents aged 3 and over. The highest share in Co. Dublin belongs to Monkstown (2.5%). 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
79% of residents said they are Catholic, a share 88% 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: 91% of Naul · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (5.1%), Other, including mixed (2.2%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1%). Elsewhere, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Naul has fewer residents with no religion than 69% of Irish towns, at 14%.
A larger share of married residents 15 and over than 93% of Irish towns: 41%
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.
Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 5.7%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Degree or higher: 36% of adults
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate: 13% of adults. Higher than in 51% of Irish towns: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher. Primary level or earlier: 9%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
A younger town than 2 of the 6 around it: Naul
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naul | 684 | — | 37.8 | 8.3% | 56% |
| Stamullen | 3,720 | 5.2 km | 34.4 | 5.3% | 63% |
| Balrothery | 2,282 | 6.8 km | 38.4 | 10% | 59% |
| Balbriggan | 24,322 | 6.8 km | 34.9 | 7.8% | 55% |
| Lusk | 8,806 | 10.4 km | 35.3 | 6.6% | 59% |
| Ashbourne | 15,680 | 11.1 km | 35.6 | 8.3% | 56% |
| Skerries | 10,743 | 11.2 km | 40.7 | 16% | 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.
Questions about Naul’s residents
What is the population of Naul?
Naul had 684 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Naul?
The median age is 37.8. 28% are under 18 and 8.3% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Naul?
49% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (323 people), and 1.1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Naul?
91% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 11% were born abroad and 5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Naul?
79% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 6.2% another religion; 0.4% didn’t say.
Is Naul good for families?
56% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 28% of residents are under 18. Schools near Naul are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Naul?
Median gross household income in Naul was €82,860 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).