Photo: Ian Hawfinch · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 98% of Irish towns: half of Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis is over 44.8
In Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis, 30% of households are parents with children, beside 43% across Ireland’s towns. Higher than in three quarters of Irish towns: 24% of households have no car or van. The town counted 1,671 residents and 580 households at the 2022 Census. Across Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis, 38% of households are one person living alone.
What stands out about the people of Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis
Irish spoken every day, in the Gaeltacht
13% of residents speak Irish every day outside education, more than in 99% of Irish towns; 55% can speak it. Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis is in the Gaeltacht. Irish speakers ↓
One home in 4 is a holiday home
About 270 of 1,050 homes were empty holiday homes on Census night (26%), more than in 99% of Irish towns; 15% were vacant. Homes & cars ↓
Older than most towns
Half of Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis’s residents are under 44.8 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 20% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis ranks above 99% of Irish towns on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 13%
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
Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis is in the Gaeltacht, the districts where Irish is the community language. Irish speakers number 862, or 55% of residents aged 3 and over.
Since 2016, Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis has changed by +3%, slower than 79% 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. Kerry’s towns, by more than +2%.
In Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis, 20% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 90% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
50–54 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 11%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Kerry 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
9.1% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer than in 77% of Irish towns
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 Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 35% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 18%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 8.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 96% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Kerry’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
On the census count, 5.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
26% of homes are holiday homes, more than in 99% 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
Compared with 12% across Ireland’s towns, 15% of households live in a flat or apartment here. Typically, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns.
€39,710 a year: where the middle household sits
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 €39,710, 34% lower than across Ireland (€60,120). Co. Kerry’s median household income is €48,320.
24% of residents were born outside Ireland, more than in 56% 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 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.
12% speak another language at home, most often Polish (1.4%); 1.8% speak English not well or not at all. As a yardstick, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis sits close to the norm on residents with another country’s citizenship: 15%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis: 24% of residents said they have no religion, above 78% 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: 81% of Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis · Co. Kerry’s towns 73% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
In Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis, two thirds of residents said they are Catholic, beside 71% across Ireland’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White Irish are common here: 81%, more than in 62% of Irish towns. The usual figure: 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (16%), Asian or Asian Irish (1.7%) and Other, including mixed (1%).
Half of adults have never married
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.
Married residents 15 and over account for 34%. On unpaid carers, 5.5% here is much the same as across Ireland’s towns.
Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis ranks above 58% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 39%
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 14% of adults here, while 8% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Typically, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Kerry’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Kerry’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).
- Speaking Irish. CSO asks everyone aged 3 and over whether they can speak Irish and how often; “daily outside education” leaves out speaking it only at school.
- 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.
Questions about Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis’s residents
What is the population of Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis?
Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis had 1,671 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis?
The median age is 44.8. 13% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis?
55% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (862 people), and 13% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis?
81% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 24% were born abroad and 15% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis?
67% are Catholic, 24% have no religion and 9.3% another religion; 4.4% didn’t say.
Is Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis good for families?
30% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 13% of residents are under 18. Schools near Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis?
Median gross household income in Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis was €39,710 in 2022, against €48,320 across Co. Kerry 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. 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).