Photo: James Allan · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 91% of Irish towns: 6.4% of households have no car or van
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households of parents with children is 43%; Clane has 51%. The town has fewer residents aged 65 and over than 80% of Irish towns, at 9.7%. In 2022, the Census found 8,152 residents here, living in 2,835 households. One-person households account for 18%.
From 2016 to 2022, Clane outgrew 61% of Irish towns: +10%
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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +14% across Co. Kildare’s towns.
Clane is younger than 64% of Irish towns: a median age of 36.6
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 40–44 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents. On residents aged 15 to 24, Clane sits higher than half of Irish towns: 12%. In Leixlip, the oldest of Co. Kildare’s towns by this measure, it is 17%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Clane, 36.6. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Kildare 51.0%, Ireland 51.2%.
9.7% of residents moved in within a year, more than in 74% 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
On the census count, just over one in ten residents 15 and over are students. As a reference point, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
2.9 people per household, more than in 75% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Kildare’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
In Clane, 4.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
More households in flats than 78% of Irish towns: 23%
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
Internet at home: broadband for 95%, nothing for 3.9% (typical: 7.6%). Against that, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. In Clane, 0.1% of homes are holiday homes.
€73,830 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.
The median household earns €73,830 gross, 23% more than the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Kildare as a whole, the figure is €73,000.
Only 13% of residents are citizens of another country in Clane
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.
Residents born abroad were most often born outside the EU and UK (6.6%), then elsewhere in the EU (4.9%). On residents born outside Ireland, Clane sits lower than 55% of Irish towns: 21%. Against that, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
Only 0.8% of residents speak Irish daily outside education in Clane
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
The highest share in Co. Kildare belongs to Maynooth (2.2%). The share of daily speakers of Irish outside education across Ireland’s towns is 1.1%. The ability to speak Irish extends to 3,175 residents (43% of those aged 3 and over).
A higher share of residents who said they are Catholic than 61% of Irish towns, at 73%
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 Clane · Co. Kildare’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (13%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.8%) and Other, including mixed (2.6%). Higher than in 55% of Irish towns: 79% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. Across Ireland’s towns, residents who said they are Catholic come to 71%. Here 16% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 17%.
38% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 78% 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.
Unpaid carers make up 4.7%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Measured more widely, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of adults with a degree or higher than 65% of Irish towns, at 43%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Across Ireland’s towns, one in ten adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Clane, 5.7%, and 15% hold a postgraduate qualification. By way of comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
In its size band (6,971 to 9,647), the 16th youngest of 41 towns
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 31.4 in Temple Bar to 50.3 in Dalkey. Nearest to Clane in age: Portarlington (36.4), Dunboyne (36.6), Edenderry (36.9) and Frankfield and Grange (37.1).
3 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Clane
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
Health, work, housing and schools
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 Clane’s residents
What is the population of Clane?
Clane had 8,152 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 10% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Clane?
The median age is 36.6, younger than 64% of Irish towns. 27% are under 18 and 9.7% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Clane?
43% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (3,175 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Clane?
79% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 21% were born abroad and 13% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Clane?
73% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 11% another religion; 4.9% didn’t say.
Is Clane good for families?
51% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 27% of residents are under 18. Schools near Clane are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Clane?
Median gross household income in Clane was €73,830 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).