Photo: JP · CC BY-SA 2.0Old Bawn sits below 76% of Irish towns for one-person households (18%)
In Old Bawn the average household is 2.9 people, beside 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. The 2022 Census put the neighbourhood’s population at 18,758, in 6,555 households. On the census count, 83% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. 15% of households live in a flat or apartment, a higher share than in 62% of Irish towns.
Old Bawn changed by +4% from 2016 to 2022, slower than 71% 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 Co. Dublin’s towns the median is +6%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 16% in Old Bawn, more than in 66% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Half of Old Bawn’s residents are over 38, older than in 54% of Irish towns. The usual figure: 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. Here, 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24. In Dalkey, the oldest of Co. Dublin’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Old Bawn, 38. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Below 94% of Irish towns: 4.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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
At 9.7%, the share of students among residents 15 and over is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
More households of parents with children than 72% of Irish towns: 47%
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.
4.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, a lower share than in 55% of Irish towns. Set beside that, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer car-free households than 58% of Irish towns: 16%
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
5.8% of households have no internet access (typical: 7.6%); 92% have broadband. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. The wider picture: 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Median household income: €58,890 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 €58,890 sits close to Ireland (€60,120). Countywide in Co. Dublin, the median is €71,120.
Only 16% of Old Bawn’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.
Against a figure of 15% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship in Old Bawn comes in at 9.8%. Set beside that, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born outside the EU and UK (6.1%), then elsewhere in the EU (3.4%).
Irish: 32% of Old Bawn’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
Old Bawn sits close to the norm on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.3%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. In Co. Dublin, Monkstown has the highest share (2.5%). The ability to speak Irish extends to 5,271 residents (32% of those aged 3 and over).
A larger share of residents who said they are Catholic than 68% of Irish towns: 74%
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: 83% of Old Bawn · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White Irish, the biggest groups are Other White (8.3%), Asian or Asian Irish (3.5%) and Black or Black Irish (2.9%). As a reference point, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. At 16%, the share of residents with no religion is lower than in 60% of Irish towns.
Old Bawn sits above 52% of Irish towns for married residents 15 and over (35%)
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%, unpaid carers sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Old Bawn ranks below 87% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 21%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
5.9% of Old Bawn’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 16% 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%.
Oldest by rank: 21st of 41 towns of 15,588 to 22,667 people
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 Old Bawn in age: Carpenterstown (37.4), Knocknacarra (38), Ballincollig (38.1) and Tullamore (38.1).
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Old Bawn
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Bawn | 18,758 | — | 38 | 16% | 47% |
| Bohernabreena | 4,613 | 1.0 km | 35.6 | 8.8% | 60% |
| Tallaght | 15,588 | 1.5 km | 36.3 | 16% | 42% |
| Firhouse | 12,254 | 1.8 km | 36.3 | 10% | 56% |
| Kilnamanagh | 11,703 | 2.4 km | 41.2 | 22% | 42% |
| Knocklyon | 13,854 | 3.0 km | 36.9 | 13% | 55% |
| Jobstown | 23,437 | 3.0 km | 32.4 | 6.8% | 55% |
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 Old Bawn’s residents
What is the population of Old Bawn?
Old Bawn had 18,758 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Old Bawn?
The median age is 38, older than 54% of Irish towns. 25% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Old Bawn?
32% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (5,271 people), and 1.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Old Bawn?
83% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 9.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Old Bawn?
74% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 10% another religion; 7.6% didn’t say.
Is Old Bawn good for families?
47% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Old Bawn are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Old Bawn?
Median gross household income in Old Bawn was €58,890 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).