Photo: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0Above 84% of Irish towns: 19% of residents are 65 or over
Households without a car or van: 24% here and 17% across Ireland’s towns. Whitehall had 13,675 residents in 5,017 households at the 2022 Census. The share of households of parents with children stands at 33%. Residents with no religion are more common here than in nearly four fifths of Irish towns.
Whitehall 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, half of towns changed by more than +8%; across Co. Dublin’s towns, by more than +6%.
13% of residents are 15 to 24, more than in 73% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 25–29: 9.1% of residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns. The median age in Whitehall is 37.6, lower than in 51% of Irish towns. Against that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Whitehall, 37.6. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
Above 86% of Irish towns: 13% 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
In Whitehall, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 43% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 11%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 7.5%.
More shared households of unrelated adults than 79% of Irish towns: 11%
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.
Households average 2.6 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is 4.7%. Locally, 26% of households are one person living alone.
A larger share of households in flats than 76% of Irish towns: 20%
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
93% have broadband at home and 6.2% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Whitehall has fewer holiday homes than nearly three quarters of Irish towns, at 0.1%. Typically, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
Half of households earn more than €67,740 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €67,740 a year before tax, the median household income is 13% above that of Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Dublin, the middle household has €71,120.
A higher share of residents with another country’s citizenship than 62% of Irish towns, at 17%
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 (10%) and elsewhere in the EU (5.9%). 23% of residents were born outside Ireland, a higher share than in 53% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship is 15%.
Above 85% of Irish towns: 1.7% of residents speak Irish daily outside education
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
In all, 4,938 residents aged 3 and over (40%) can speak Irish. Across Ireland’s towns, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education.
Below 73% of Irish towns: 65% 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: 79% of Whitehall · Co. Dublin’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White Irish come Other White (9.7%), Asian or Asian Irish (6.1%) and Other, including mixed (3.5%). As a yardstick, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish are more common here than in 53% of Irish towns.
Whitehall ranks below 62% of Irish towns on married residents 15 and over: 33%
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.
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 6.1%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of adults with a degree or higher than 67% of Irish towns, at 44%
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 18% of adults here, while 11% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Across Ireland’s towns, adults with a degree or higher come to 36%.
In its size band (11,741 to 15,907), the 16th oldest of 41 towns
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 29 in Castletroy to 44.7 in Foxrock. Nearest to Whitehall in age: Cabra East (37.5), Enniscorthy (37.5), Bishopstown (38) and Tullamore (38.1).
Median age: 3 of the 6 towns around Whitehall are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
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 Whitehall’s residents
What is the population of Whitehall?
Whitehall had 13,675 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Whitehall?
The median age is 37.6, younger than 51% of Irish towns. 18% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Whitehall?
40% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (4,938 people), and 1.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Whitehall?
79% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 23% were born abroad and 17% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Whitehall?
65% are Catholic, 24% have no religion and 11% another religion; 7.2% didn’t say.
Is Whitehall good for families?
33% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 18% of residents are under 18. Schools near Whitehall are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Whitehall?
Median gross household income in Whitehall was €67,740 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).