Photo: Sulmac at English Wikipedia · Public domainOnly 17% of households are parents with children in Eyre Square
Half of Eyre Square’s residents are under 35.1, younger than in 79% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 6,801 residents and 2,311 households in the neighbourhood. For Eyre Square, the census puts holiday homes at 5.1%. Shared households of unrelated adults make up 29%, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns.
What stands out about the people of Eyre Square
A student neighbourhood
13% of residents aged 15 and over are students, more than in 85% of Irish towns; Ireland’s towns 10%. 18% of residents are 15 to 24. Social class & newcomers ↓
A neighbourhood people move to
17% of residents lived somewhere else a year before the Census, 2.2 times the share across Ireland’s towns; 4.4% came from abroad. Social class & newcomers ↓
More with no religion than most
30% answered “no religion”, against 17% across Ireland’s towns; 57% are Catholic (71%). Ethnicity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Slower growth than 51% of Irish towns: Eyre Square changed by +7% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +7% across Co. Galway’s towns.
18% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 95% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Where 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns, Eyre Square has 15%. In Newcastle, the oldest of Co. Galway’s towns by this measure, it is 28%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Eyre Square, 35.1. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Galway 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
Eyre Square ranks above 85% of Irish towns on students among residents 15 and over: 13%
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
Residents who moved in within the year: 17% here and 7.5% across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
2.4 people per household, fewer than in 82% 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.
24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns, against 26% in Eyre Square.
A neighbourhood of flats: 37% of households live in one
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
The figure for households without a car or van is 31% in Eyre Square and 17% across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
The middle household earns €56,610 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Before tax, the middle household here has €56,610 a year, 6% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). That compares with €59,640 across Co. Galway.
A larger share of residents born outside Ireland than 85% of Irish towns: 32%
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 40%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 40%
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.
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are outside the EU and UK (13%) and elsewhere in the EU (8.5%). Against that, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. 26% of residents are citizens of another country, a higher share than in 87% of Irish towns.
A larger share of daily speakers of Irish outside education than 98% of Irish towns: 2.7%
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
2,247 residents, just over two fifths of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. In Co. Galway, Knocknacarra has the highest share (4.5%). The wider picture: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
30% said they have no religion, more than in 91% of Irish towns
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: 75% of Eyre Square · Co. Galway’s towns 72% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
By its share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish (75%), Eyre Square is below 61% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 17% of residents said they have no religion. Census figures put residents who said they are Catholic at 57% here.
In Eyre Square, 28% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 86% of Irish towns
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.
4.6% of residents give unpaid care, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
53% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, more than in 83% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
17% of those 15 and over have not yet finished their education. Typically, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Of Eyre Square’s adults, 22% went on to postgraduate study and 6.3% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns).
The 12th youngest of 41 towns of 5,851 to 7,941 people
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 25.6 in Gillabbey to 45.1 in Perrystown. Nearest to Eyre Square in age: Dunshaughlin (34.7), Sallins (34.8), Caherdavin (35.3) and Dock (35.4).
Median age: 3 of the 6 towns around Eyre Square are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyre Square | 6,801 | — | 35.1 | 15% | 17% |
| Woodquay and Nuns Island | 4,948 | 1.1 km | 32.1 | 11% | 11% |
| Mervue | 4,126 | 1.5 km | 37.4 | 16% | 29% |
| Claddagh | 2,755 | 1.6 km | 38.9 | 20% | 23% |
| Murrough | 2,909 | 2.2 km | 32.8 | 12% | 33% |
| Newcastle | 4,032 | 2.4 km | 42.5 | 28% | 24% |
| Ballinfoile and Terryland | 5,851 | 2.4 km | 30.4 | 12% | 30% |
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 Eyre Square’s residents
What is the population of Eyre Square?
Eyre Square had 6,801 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 7% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Eyre Square?
The median age is 35.1, younger than 79% of Irish towns. 9.6% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Eyre Square?
41% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (2,247 people), and 2.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Eyre Square?
75% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 32% were born abroad and 26% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Eyre Square?
57% are Catholic, 30% have no religion and 13% another religion; 18% didn’t say.
Is Eyre Square good for families?
17% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 9.6% of residents are under 18. Schools near Eyre Square are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Eyre Square?
Median gross household income in Eyre Square was €56,610 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).