Photo: C O'Flanagan · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer one-person households than 95% of Irish towns: 14%
Just over one in ten residents said they have no religion, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. The 2022 Census put Ronanstown’s population at 11,130, in 3,651 households. For Ronanstown, the census puts households without a car or van at 25%. Few places have as many households of parents with children: 49% here, more than in 76% of Irish towns.
Ronanstown changed by +6% from 2016 to 2022, behind 57% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +6% across Co. Dublin’s towns.
Ronanstown is younger than 71% of Irish towns: a median age of 35.9
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The figure for residents aged 15 to 24 is 14% in Ronanstown and 12% across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over are rarer here than in 51% of Irish towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Ronanstown, 35.9. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Dublin 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 98% of Irish towns, at 3.1%
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
Across Ireland’s towns, just over a third of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Ronanstown, 17% and 24%. Elsewhere, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Larger households than 93% of Irish towns: 3.1 people on average
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 shared households of unrelated adults is 5.8% in Ronanstown and 4.7% across Ireland’s towns.
6.3% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 83% 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
At home, 91% have broadband, while 6.5% have no internet access (typical: 7.6%). Across Ireland’s towns, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
Median household income here: €54,710 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €54,710 a year before tax, the median household income is 9% under that of Ireland (€60,120). Co. Dublin as a whole has a median of €71,120.
Only 13% of residents were born outside Ireland in Ronanstown
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.
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born outside the EU and UK (5.2%) and elsewhere in the EU (3%). Fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than in 89% of Irish towns: 7.8%. Across the comparison, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Ronanstown sits below 90% of Irish towns for daily speakers of Irish outside education (0.6%)
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
Some 2,125 people here, just over a fifth of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. The usual figure: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns. In Co. Dublin, Monkstown has the highest share (2.5%).
Above 85% of Irish towns: 78% 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: 85% of Ronanstown · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (6%), Black or Black Irish (3.6%) and Asian or Asian Irish (2.7%). The usual figure: 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of married residents 15 and over than 84% of Irish towns: 29%
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.
Ronanstown sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 5.8%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
In Ronanstown, 12% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 99% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Ronanstown’s adults, 2.6% went on to postgraduate study and 24% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). The wider picture: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 9,616 to 12,884 people, the 9th youngest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Summerhill (30.5) and the oldest Foxrock (44.7). Nearest to Ronanstown in age: Donabate (35.6), Drumcondra (35.9), Kildare (36) and Cavan (36.1).
Median age: 3 of the 6 towns around Ronanstown are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ronanstown | 11,130 | — | 35.9 | 14% | 49% |
| Palmerston | 11,012 | 1.3 km | 40.4 | 18% | 42% |
| Cherry Orchard | 8,280 | 1.8 km | 33 | 6.8% | 49% |
| Ballyowen | 14,739 | 1.9 km | 33.6 | 3.7% | 56% |
| Carna | 2,897 | 2.1 km | 39.5 | 17% | 43% |
| Deansrath | 13,743 | 2.3 km | 35.7 | 11% | 49% |
| Ballyfermot | 3,632 | 2.4 km | 38.8 | 17% | 41% |
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 Ronanstown’s residents
What is the population of Ronanstown?
Ronanstown had 11,130 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ronanstown?
The median age is 35.9, younger than 71% of Irish towns. 25% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ronanstown?
22% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (2,125 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ronanstown?
85% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 13% were born abroad and 7.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ronanstown?
78% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 10% another religion; 11% didn’t say.
Is Ronanstown good for families?
49% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ronanstown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ronanstown?
Median gross household income in Ronanstown was €54,710 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).