Photo: Robin Pollard · CC BY 3.0In Derrinturn, 60% of households are parents with children, more than in 98% of Irish towns
Against a figure of 24% across Ireland’s towns, the share of one-person households in Derrinturn comes in at 15%. Locally, 1.8% of households live in a flat or apartment. 8.9% of residents said they have no religion, a lower share than in 96% of Irish towns. There were 597 households here at the 2022 Census, home to 1,837 residents.
What stands out about the people of Derrinturn
A town of families
43% of households are couples with children and 17% lone parents with children, more than in 98% of Irish towns; 26% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Derrinturn’s residents are under 33.7 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 14% are 15 to 24 and 8.4% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
From 2016 to 2022, Derrinturn outgrew 77% of Irish towns: +13%
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.
A median age of 33.7: Derrinturn is younger than 89% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 10–14: 10% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns. At 8.4%, the share of residents aged 65 and over is lower than in 86% of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Kildare 51.0%, Ireland 51.2%.
In Derrinturn, 3.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 96% 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
Here just over one in ten residents 15 and over are students, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 10%. By way of comparison, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
1.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 97% 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.
The typical household size is 3.1 people. As a yardstick, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns.
Derrinturn ranks below 74% of Irish towns on households without a car or van: 11%
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
Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. As a reference point, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Connected households: 87% on broadband; 8.8% offline (typical: 7.6%).
Half of households earn more than €57,120 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €57,120 a year here, close to Ireland (€60,120). Co. Kildare comes in at €73,000 at the median.
Below 79% of Irish towns: 16% of residents were born outside Ireland
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.
Compared with 15% across Ireland’s towns, 11% of residents are citizens of another country here. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are elsewhere in the EU (6.8%) and outside the EU and UK (4.4%). Across Ireland’s towns, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland.
0.7% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 82% of Irish towns
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
Some 574 people here, 34% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Measured more widely, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Derrinturn: 79% of residents said they are Catholic, above 86% 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 Derrinturn · Co. Kildare’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns, against 81% in Derrinturn. Besides White Irish, the main groups are Other White (13%), Black or Black Irish (2.2%) and Asian or Asian Irish (2.2%). As a reference point, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
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.
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 5.1%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. For Derrinturn, the census puts married residents 15 and over at 34%.
Below 87% of Irish towns: 21% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A postgraduate qualification is the highest level for 5% of adults; primary level or less for 14% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Set beside that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Older than Derrinturn: 5 of the 6 towns nearby
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 Derrinturn’s residents
What is the population of Derrinturn?
Derrinturn had 1,837 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 13% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Derrinturn?
The median age is 33.7. 32% are under 18 and 8.4% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Derrinturn?
34% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (574 people), and 0.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Derrinturn?
81% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Derrinturn?
79% are Catholic, 8.9% have no religion and 12% another religion; 4.4% didn’t say.
Is Derrinturn good for families?
60% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 32% of residents are under 18. Schools near Derrinturn are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Derrinturn?
Median gross household income in Derrinturn was €57,120 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).