Photo: O'Dea · CC BY-SA 4.0Older than 94% of Irish towns: half of Templeogue is over 43.3
In Templeogue, 91% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, beside 78% across Ireland’s towns. The neighbourhood had 18,076 residents in 6,584 households at the 2022 Census. For Templeogue, the census puts households without a car or van at 8%. One-person households are rarer here than in just over two thirds of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Templeogue
Older than most towns
Half of Templeogue’s residents are under 43.3 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 23% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
+4% since 2016: slower than 74% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +6% across Co. Dublin’s towns.
More residents aged 65 and over than 96% of Irish towns: 23%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
40–44 is the most common age band: 7.4% of residents. The usual figure: 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. Compared with other places, residents aged 15 to 24 are scarce here: 11%, fewer than in 77% of Irish towns. In Dalkey, the oldest of Co. Dublin’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Templeogue, 43.3. 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.
58% of residents belong to the professional, managerial and technical classes
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 9.9%, students among residents 15 and over sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. For Templeogue, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 6.6%.
Larger households than 61% of Irish towns: 2.7 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 4%. Here, just over two in five households are parents with children.
Households in flats make up 7.9% in Templeogue, less than in 75% 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
Most homes are connected: 96% have broadband, and 3.7% have no internet (typical: 7.6%). The usual figure: 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes account for 0.2%.
Median household income: €86,540 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €86,540 a year before tax, the median household income is 44% above that of Ireland (€60,120). Co. Dublin comes in at €71,120 at the median.
Fewer residents born outside Ireland than 95% of Irish towns: 12%
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.
With residents with another country’s citizenship at 6.3%, Templeogue is behind 96% of Irish towns on that count. Residents born outside Ireland make up 22% across Ireland’s towns. 9.3% speak a language other than English at home, Spanish most of all (1.3%); 1% speak English not well or not at all.
Of Templeogue’s residents, 47% 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 8,107, or 47% of residents aged 3 and over. The highest share in Co. Dublin belongs to Monkstown (2.5%). At 1.3%, daily speakers of Irish outside education sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns.
Above 72% of Irish towns: 75% 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: 91% of Templeogue · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (5.1%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.5%) and Other, including mixed (1.2%). The usual figure: 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Residents with no religion are more common here than in nearly three fifths of Irish towns.
Templeogue sits above 97% of Irish towns for married residents 15 and over (44%)
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.
6.6% of residents give unpaid care, against 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Templeogue ranks above 79% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 50%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate qualifications are held by just over a fifth of adults here, while 7.5% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). As a yardstick, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Ranked by age, 2nd oldest of 41 towns this size
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Castletroy (29) and the oldest Ballinteer (44.1). Nearest to Templeogue in age: Beaumont (42.9), Rathfarnham (43.3) and Ballinteer (44.1).
Nearby, 1 of 6 towns have older populations than Templeogue
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Templeogue | 18,076 | — | 43.3 | 23% | 42% |
| Perrystown | 7,581 | 1.1 km | 45.1 | 23% | 36% |
| Walkinstown | 7,442 | 2.1 km | 39.7 | 17% | 36% |
| Kimmage | 15,207 | 2.2 km | 39.1 | 16% | 32% |
| Kilnamanagh | 11,703 | 2.2 km | 41.2 | 22% | 42% |
| Terenure | 10,391 | 2.3 km | 39.6 | 17% | 36% |
| Ballyboden | 5,246 | 2.4 km | 41.5 | 18% | 50% |
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 Templeogue’s residents
What is the population of Templeogue?
Templeogue had 18,076 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Templeogue?
The median age is 43.3, older than 94% of Irish towns. 20% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Templeogue?
47% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (8,107 people), and 1.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Templeogue?
91% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 6.3% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Templeogue?
75% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 6.1% another religion; 2.3% didn’t say.
Is Templeogue good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Templeogue are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Templeogue?
Median gross household income in Templeogue was €86,540 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).