Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0No religion: 30% of residents, a higher share than 89% of Irish towns
Half of Terenure’s residents are over 39.6, older than in 75% of Irish towns. The 2022 Census counted 10,391 residents in 4,058 households. The share of households of parents with children stands at 36%. Compared with 4.7% across Ireland’s towns, nearly one in ten households are unrelated adults sharing a home here.
What stands out about the people of Terenure
More with no religion than most
30% answered “no religion”, against 17% across Ireland’s towns; 60% are Catholic (71%). Ethnicity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Slower growth than 65% of Irish towns: Terenure changed by +5% since 2016
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.
Terenure ranks above 75% of Irish towns on residents aged 65 and over: 17%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 40–44: nearly one in ten residents. Lower than in 86% of Irish towns: 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24. The wider picture: 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Dalkey, the oldest of Co. Dublin’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Terenure, 39.6. 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.
Terenure sits above 70% of Irish towns for residents who moved in within the year (9.2%)
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
63% of Terenure’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 6.4% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
In Terenure, 27% of households are one person living alone, more than in 67% 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.
A household here has 2.6 people on average; across Ireland’s towns, 2.7. Across Ireland’s towns, one-person households come to 24%.
Above 64% of Irish towns: 16% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
Holiday homes are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 0.4%. Against that, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Households without a car or van: 18% of the total.
Half of households earn more than €87,380 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Terenure’s households have a gross income above €87,380 a year, 45% above the median for Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Dublin, the middle household has €71,120.
Terenure sits below 72% of Irish towns for residents with another country’s citizenship (11%)
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.
14% speak another language at home, most often Spanish (2.1%); 1.3% speak English not well or not at all. Few places have so few residents born outside Ireland: 19% here, fewer than in 63% of Irish towns. Elsewhere, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
Terenure: 2.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, above 93% 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
Monkstown leads Co. Dublin with 2.5%. For comparison, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer residents who said they are Catholic than 83% of Irish towns: 60%
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: 84% of Terenure · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (9.1%), Other, including mixed (3%) and Asian or Asian Irish (2.9%). For residents who said they are Catholic, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 71%. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish are more common here than in 75% of Irish towns.
A larger share of married residents 15 and over than 73% of Irish towns: 37%
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.
Unpaid carers are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 5.7%. Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
A higher share of adults with a degree or higher than 96% of Irish towns, at 65%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, 30% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 4.9% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher.
Ranked by age, 16th oldest of 41 towns this size
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Summerhill is the youngest (30.5); Foxrock the oldest (44.7). Nearest to Terenure in age: Finglas North (39.4), Ballina (39.5), Palmerston (40.4) and Dungarvan (40.5).
Terenure sits below 2 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terenure | 10,391 | — | 39.6 | 17% | 36% |
| Kimmage | 15,207 | 1.1 km | 39.1 | 16% | 32% |
| Rathgar | 5,768 | 1.4 km | 34.2 | 18% | 30% |
| Rathmines West | 22,667 | 1.5 km | 34.3 | 10% | 19% |
| Crumlin | 19,287 | 2.3 km | 39 | 16% | 35% |
| Perrystown | 7,581 | 2.3 km | 45.1 | 23% | 36% |
| Templeogue | 18,076 | 2.3 km | 43.3 | 23% | 42% |
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 Terenure’s residents
What is the population of Terenure?
Terenure had 10,391 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Terenure?
The median age is 39.6, older than 75% of Irish towns. 20% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Terenure?
50% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (4,836 people), and 2.1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Terenure?
84% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 19% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Terenure?
60% are Catholic, 30% have no religion and 10% another religion; 4.1% didn’t say.
Is Terenure good for families?
36% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Terenure are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Terenure?
Median gross household income in Terenure was €87,380 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).