Photo: William Murphy · CC BY-SA 3.0Raheny is older than 93% of Irish towns: a median age of 42.8
The share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish tops 91% of Irish towns: 88%. 39% of households are parents with children. Compared with other places, households in flats are common here: 15%, more than in 62% of Irish towns. There were 3,294 households in Raheny at the 2022 Census, home to 8,734 residents.
What stands out about the people of Raheny
Older than most towns
Half of Raheny’s residents are under 42.8 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 22% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Many carers
About 650 residents (7.4%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 99% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Raheny changed by +5% from 2016 to 2022, slower than 67% 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 median change is +8%; across Co. Dublin’s towns, +6%.
In Raheny, 22% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 93% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns, against 11% in Raheny. The largest age band is 50–54: 7.1% of residents. Elsewhere, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Raheny, 42.8. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
7.7% of residents moved in within a year, more than in 55% 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
30% of workers are in professional occupations, against a typical 21%. As a reference point, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns. Here, 9.9% of residents 15 and over are students.
3.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 74% 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 typical household size is 2.6 people. The share of one-person households stands at 25%. Across Ireland’s towns, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
16% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 55% 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
Home broadband covers 92% of households, while 6.7% go without the internet (typical: 7.6%). The wider picture: 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes.
Household income at the median: €73,350 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€73,350 a year before tax puts the median household 22% above Ireland (€60,120). Co. Dublin’s median household income is €71,120.
Fewer residents born outside Ireland than 87% of Irish towns: 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.
8.4% of residents are citizens of another country; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 15%. Residents born outside Ireland make up 22% across Ireland’s towns. At home, 10% use another language, chiefly Spanish (1.2%), and 1% speak English not well or not at all.
In Raheny, 1.9% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, more than in 90% of Irish towns
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%). Across Ireland’s towns, daily speakers of Irish outside education come to 1.1%.
22% of residents said they have no religion, a share 74% 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: 88% of Raheny · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (7.1%), Other, including mixed (2%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.9%). At 71%, the share of residents who said they are Catholic is lower than in 54% of Irish towns. The wider picture: 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
Raheny ranks above 84% of Irish towns on married residents 15 and over: 39%
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.
7.4% of residents give unpaid care (Ireland’s towns: 5.4%). Against that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Raheny ranks above 66% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 43%
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, one in ten adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Raheny, 9.8%, and 18% hold a postgraduate qualification. By way of comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
41 towns of 7,581 to 10,081 people: this is the 7th oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Grand Canal Dock (32.1) and the oldest Dalkey (50.3). Nearest to Raheny in age: Grantstown and Ballinakill (42.5), Killiney (42.5), Monkstown (43) and Farranshone (43.5).
Median age: 3 of the 6 towns around Raheny are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raheny | 8,734 | — | 42.8 | 22% | 39% |
| Donaghmede | 9,616 | 0.8 km | 43.8 | 23% | 41% |
| Edenmore | 2,831 | 1.7 km | 44.1 | 24% | 40% |
| Sutton | 5,789 | 1.8 km | 45.4 | 26% | 41% |
| Ayrfield | 5,863 | 1.9 km | 41.7 | 20% | 43% |
| Clongriffin | 7,438 | 2.1 km | 33.7 | 6.8% | 44% |
| Baldoyle | 7,864 | 2.2 km | 40.9 | 17% | 43% |
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 Raheny’s residents
What is the population of Raheny?
Raheny had 8,734 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Raheny?
The median age is 42.8, older than 93% of Irish towns. 20% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Raheny?
43% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (3,553 people), and 1.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Raheny?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 8.4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Raheny?
71% are Catholic, 22% have no religion and 7.2% another religion; 3.1% didn’t say.
Is Raheny good for families?
39% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Raheny are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Raheny?
Median gross household income in Raheny was €73,350 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).