Photo: paddy (Patrick-Emil Zörner) · CC BY-SA 3.0Younger than 99% of Irish towns: half of Dangan is under 27.5
Against a figure of 4.7% across Ireland’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults in Dangan comes in at 27%. By contrast, households of parents with children are rarer here than in 89% of Irish towns. The neighbourhood counted 4,621 residents and 1,588 households at the 2022 Census. Here, 20% of households live in a flat or apartment.
What stands out about the people of Dangan
A student neighbourhood
36% of residents aged 15 and over are students, more than in 99% of Irish towns; Ireland’s towns 10%. 35% of residents are 15 to 24. Social class & newcomers ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Dangan’s residents are under 27.5 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 35% are 15 to 24 and 13% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
A neighbourhood people move to
21% of residents lived somewhere else a year before the Census, 2.8 times the share across Ireland’s towns; 5.9% came from abroad. Social class & newcomers ↓
More with no religion than most
26% answered “no religion”, against 17% across Ireland’s towns; 61% are Catholic (71%). Ethnicity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Faster growth than 73% of Irish towns: Dangan changed by +12% 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 +7% across Co. Galway’s towns.
A young neighbourhood: 35% of residents are 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 20–24: nearly a quarter of residents, 3.9 times the share across Ireland’s towns. 13% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Dangan, 27.5. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 82 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Galway 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
A student neighbourhood: 36% of residents 15 and over are students
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 Dangan, 30% and 10%. Few places have as many residents who moved in within the year: 21% here, more than in 98% of Irish towns.
In Dangan, 23% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 58% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Galway’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Average household size: 2.7 people. By way of comparison, 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Above 75% of Irish towns: 24% of households have no car or van
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 0.7%, the share of holiday homes is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns. About one household in 4 lives without a car or van.
The middle household earns €49,550 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Households here have a median gross income of €49,550, 18% lower than across Ireland (€60,120). Co. Galway’s median household income is €59,640.
Residents born outside Ireland: 25%, a higher share than 65% of Irish towns
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 35%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
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.
Here 18% of residents are citizens of another country, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 15%. On average, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. 17% speak another language at home, most often Polish (2%); 1.3% speak English not well or not at all.
2.2% of Dangan’s residents use Irish every day 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
Within Co. Galway, Knocknacarra has the largest share, 4.5%. Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.1% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
Dangan sits above 86% of Irish towns for residents with no religion (26%)
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: 74% of Dangan · Co. Galway’s towns 72% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (11%), Asian or Asian Irish (8.9%) and Irish Traveller (3%). For comparison, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Just over three in five residents said they are Catholic, fewer than in 82% of Irish towns. The share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish trails nearly two thirds of Irish towns: 74%.
A smaller share of married residents 15 and over than 94% of Irish towns: 24%
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.
Students and young renters account for much of that. For Dangan, the census puts unpaid carers at 4%. 69% of the neighbourhood’s residents 15 and over are single and 24% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
49% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, a share 77% of Irish towns don’t reach
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 21% of adults here, while 10% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of adults with a degree or higher is 36%. 64% of those 15 and over have not yet finished their education.
Ranked by age, 1st youngest of 41 towns this size
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Dangan (27.5) and the oldest Montenotte (46.5). Nearest to Dangan in age: Saggart (32) and Woodquay and Nuns Island (32.1).
No nearby town is as young as Dangan
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dangan | 4,621 | — | 27.5 | 13% | 27% |
| Newcastle | 4,032 | 0.7 km | 42.5 | 28% | 24% |
| Rahoon | 3,486 | 0.8 km | 35.2 | 11% | 39% |
| Taylor's Hill | 3,141 | 1.4 km | 31.8 | 14% | 36% |
| Woodquay and Nuns Island | 4,948 | 1.8 km | 32.1 | 11% | 11% |
| Ballinfoile and Terryland | 5,851 | 2.1 km | 30.4 | 12% | 30% |
| Claddagh | 2,755 | 2.3 km | 38.9 | 20% | 23% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Galway’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Galway’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 Dangan’s residents
What is the population of Dangan?
Dangan had 4,621 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 12% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Dangan?
The median age is 27.5, younger than 99% of Irish towns. 12% are under 18 and 13% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Dangan?
48% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,912 people), and 2.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Dangan?
74% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 25% were born abroad and 18% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Dangan?
61% are Catholic, 26% have no religion and 13% another religion; 12% didn’t say.
Is Dangan good for families?
27% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 12% of residents are under 18. Schools near Dangan are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Dangan?
Median gross household income in Dangan was €49,550 in 2022, against €59,640 across Co. Galway 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).