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38.4Median age

Who lives here · CSO Census 2022

More households of parents with children than 89% of Irish towns: 54%

In Celbridge, 11% of residents are 65 or over, beside 14% across Ireland’s towns. 6.8% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 88% of Irish towns. There are 4% more residents than in 2016. Locally, 16% of households are one person living alone.

+4%since 2016 11%aged 65 or over 21%born abroad 6,869households

What stands out · In brief

What stands out about the people of Celbridge

54%of households are parents with children; Ireland’s towns 43%

A town of families

44% of households are couples with children and 9.7% lone parents with children, more than in 89% of Irish towns; 21% of residents are under 15. Households ↓

Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.

Population change

+4% since 2016: slower than 76% of Irish towns

Residents at the 2016 and 2022 censuses, on 2022 boundaries, and the change beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.

Residents, 2016

19,890

residents

estimate: CSO electoral divisions shared out

Residents, 2022

20,601

residents

CSO Census 2022

Change, 2016 to 2022

Celbridge+4%

Co. Kildare’s towns+14%

Ireland’s towns+8%

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 the median change is +8%; across Co. Kildare’s towns, +14%.

Ages

Older than 59% of Irish towns: half of Celbridge is over 38.4

Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.

CelbridgeIreland’s towns

0–410–1420–2430–3440–4450–5460–6470–7480–84

Here 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 12%. 40–44 is the most common age band: 9% of residents.

Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+

2535455565

■ Celbridge, 38.4. The typical town is 37.6.

Broad ages · share of residents

Under 1521%

15 to 2413%

25 to 4427%

45 to 6428%

65 and over11%

CelbridgeCo. Kildare’s townsIreland’s towns

Women and men · all residents

50% women, 50% men

Celbridge

Co. Kildare’s towns

Ireland’s towns

WomenMen

About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Kildare 51.0%, Ireland 51.2%.

Social class & newcomers

Celbridge sits above 78% of Irish towns for students among residents 15 and over (12%)

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

Professional workers11%

Managerial and technical39%

Non-manual18%

Skilled manual12%

Semi-skilled8.5%

Unskilled2.2%

All others gainfully occupied, and unknown9.3%

CelbridgeCo. Kildare’s townsIreland’s towns

Where residents lived a year earlier

Residents who lived somewhere else a year earlier. The bar runs to 25%.

Celbridge

6.2%

Ireland’s towns

7.5%

Elsewhere in the countyElsewhere in IrelandMoved from abroad

Moved in within a year

1,261

residents, 6.2%; Ireland’s towns 7.5%

Of them from abroad

324

1× Ireland’s share

Workers by occupation · residents at work

CelbridgeCo. Kildare’s townsIreland’s towns

Managers, directors and senior officials10%

Professional occupations25%

Associate professional and technical16%

Administrative and secretarial12%

Skilled trades11%

Caring, leisure and other services7.3%

Sales and customer service6.1%

Process, plant and machine operatives5.1%

Elementary occupations6.8%

0%15%30%

The share of residents who moved in within the year trails 71% of Irish towns: 6.2%. As a yardstick, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.

Households

3 people per household, more than in 86% of Irish towns

Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.

One person 16%Couple, no children 19%Couple with children 44%Single parent 9.7%Other and multi-family 8.1%Unrelated adults sharing 3.5%

Against Co. Kildare’s towns and Ireland’s towns

Celbridge

Co. Kildare’s towns

Ireland’s towns

People per household

1 person16%

2 people27%

3 people20%

4 people23%

5 or more15%

Ireland’s towns.

Here 3.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 4.7%.

Homes & cars

Households in flats make up 9.5% in Celbridge, less than in 66% of Irish towns

Home types, cars and the internet, by household. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.

Type of home

Celbridge

Co. Kildare’s towns

Ireland’s towns

House or bungalowFlat or apartmentBedsitCaravan or other

Cars or vans · share of households

No car or van6.8%

One40%

Two43%

Three or more9.9%

CelbridgeCo. Kildare’s townsIreland’s towns

Internet at home · share of households

Broadband95%

Other connection1.1%

No internet3.5%

Holiday homes are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 0.1%. Households in flats make up 12% across Ireland’s towns.

Income

Median household income: €80,860 a year

Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.

Median household income

€80,860

CSO’s own figure for the town

After tax

€65,740

median net household income

Co. Kildare

€73,000

median gross household income

Ireland

€60,120

median gross household income

€80,860 a year before tax puts the median household 34% above Ireland (€60,120). Co. Kildare as a whole has a median of €73,000.

Where people were born

In Celbridge, 12% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 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 30%

Celbridge

21%

Co. Kildare’s towns

21%

Ireland’s towns

22%

UKPolandIndiaRest of the EURest of the world

Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%

Celbridge

12%

Ireland’s towns

15%

UKPolishIndianOther EURest of the world

Citizens of another country, by citizenship; CSO counts dual Irish citizens as Irish.

Other languages · share of all residents

Speak another language at home19%

…and English very well11%

…and English well4.5%

…and English not well or not at all2%

CelbridgeCo. Kildare’s townsIreland’s towns

CSO’s small-area tables don’t give the year people arrived.

Residents born abroad were most often born outside the EU and UK (6.7%), then elsewhere in the EU (5.5%). Few places have so few residents born outside Ireland: 21% here, fewer than in 55% of Irish towns. Set beside that, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.

Irish speakers

Irish speakers: 42% of Celbridge’s residents

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

Can speak Irish42%

Speak it daily outside education1.3%

Speak it weekly outside education2.3%

CelbridgeCo. Kildare’s townsIreland’s towns

Daily speakers of Irish outside education are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 1.3%. The ability to speak Irish extends to 8,129 residents (42% of those aged 3 and over). In Co. Kildare, Maynooth has the highest share (2.2%).

Ethnicity & religion

More residents with no religion than 69% of Irish towns: 21%

Ethnic or cultural background and religion, in CSO’s categories, as people described themselves.

Ethnic groups other than White Irish · all residents

CelbridgeCo. Kildare’s townsIreland’s towns

Irish Traveller0.3%

Other White12%

Black or Black Irish2.4%

Asian or Asian Irish4.5%

Other, including mixed1.9%

0%8%16%

White Irish, not charted: 79% of Celbridge · Co. Kildare’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.

Religion · all residents

CelbridgeCo. Kildare’s townsIreland’s towns

No religion21%

Catholic67%

Other religion12%

Didn’t answer3.6%

0%40%80%

The share of residents who said they are Catholic is 67%, against 71% across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Other than White Irish, most residents describe themselves as Other White (12%), Asian or Asian Irish (4.5%) and Black or Black Irish (2.4%). At 79%, the share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish is higher than in 55% of Irish towns.

Relationships & caring

Above 92% of Irish towns: 41% of residents 15 and over are married

Marital status of residents 15 and over, and unpaid carers.

Partnership status · residents 15 and over

Single52%

Married or civil partnership41%

Separated or divorced5.1%

Widowed2.5%

CelbridgeCo. Kildare’s townsIreland’s towns

1,150residents give unpaid care to someone with an illness, disability or old age: 5.6%, against 5.4% in Ireland’s towns

The small-area tables count carers, not their hours of care.

Higher than in 59% of Irish towns: 5.6% of residents give unpaid care. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.

Qualifications

Celbridge: 45% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, above 69% of Irish towns

Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.

Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended

Primary or none6.2%

Lower secondary9.8%

Upper secondary or technical33%

Higher certificate6.2%

Degree28%

Postgraduate17%

CelbridgeCo. Kildare’s townsIreland’s towns

Of Celbridge’s adults, 17% went on to postgraduate study and 6.2% left 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%.

Towns its size

Of 41 towns its size (17,259 to 24,613 people), the 14th oldest

Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.

Celbridge 38.4

JobstownRathfarnhamBlanchardstown

313845

The youngest is Jobstown (32.4) and the oldest Rathfarnham (43.3). Nearest to Celbridge in age: Ballincollig (38.1), Douglas (38.3), Sligo (38.5) and Sandymount (38.6).

Neighbours

Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Celbridge

The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.

LeixlipStraffanMaynoothNewcastleLucanEskerCelbridge

under 3838–4444–5050–5656+

Town	People	Away	Median age	65+	Parents with children
Celbridge	20,601	—	38.4	11%	54%
Leixlip	16,733	4.2 km	38.6	17%	49%
Straffan	1,158	5.2 km	36.7	10%	55%
Maynooth	17,259	5.3 km	33.2	7.8%	44%
Newcastle	4,526	6.0 km	33.9	8.7%	54%
Lucan	23,033	6.0 km	35.7	12%	50%
Esker	19,110	7.2 km	33.5	3.9%	60%

More about Celbridge’s residents

Health, work, housing and schools

Health A⁻Health in the Census, and the grade Work & commute A⁻Jobs, unemployment and how people get to work Cost of living B⁻Home prices, rents, owning and renting SchoolsPrimary and post-primary schools nearby

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Against Co. Kildare’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Kildare’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.

Questions about Celbridge’s residents

What is the population of Celbridge?

Celbridge had 20,601 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 4% more than 2016.

What is the average age in Celbridge?

The median age is 38.4, older than 59% of Irish towns. 26% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.

How many people speak Irish in Celbridge?

42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (8,129 people), and 1.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.

How diverse is Celbridge?

79% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 21% were born abroad and 12% are citizens of another country.

What religion are people in Celbridge?

67% are Catholic, 21% have no religion and 12% another religion; 3.6% didn’t say.

Is Celbridge good for families?

54% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Celbridge are on its Schools page.

What is the median income in Celbridge?

Median gross household income in Celbridge was €80,860 in 2022, against €73,000 across Co. Kildare 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).