Photo: Ben Brooksbank · CC BY-SA 2.0Kilcock is younger than 93% of Irish towns: a median age of 33.1
One-person households make up 14%, against 24% across Ireland’s towns. At the 2022 Census, 8,674 people lived in Kilcock, in 2,860 households. Households without a car or van: 6.5% of the total. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish are rarer here than in 72% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Kilcock
Growing faster than most
Kilcock went from about 6,650 people in 2016 to 8,674 in 2022, +31%: faster growth than in 97% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Kilcock’s residents are under 33.1 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 11% are 15 to 24 and 5.9% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
A town of families
44% of households are couples with children and 10% lone parents with children, more than in 90% of Irish towns and the highest share in Co. Kildare; 27% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A growing town: +31% since 2016, faster than 97% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +14% across Co. Kildare’s towns.
Kilcock sits below 95% of Irish towns for residents aged 65 and over (5.9%)
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
In Kilcock, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24, beside 12% across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Kilcock, 33.1. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Kildare 51.0%, Ireland 51.2%.
Kilcock: 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, above 79% 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
The occupation that stands out is professional occupations: 26%, where 21% is typical. Across Ireland’s towns, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Students among residents 15 and over account for 11%.
Households of parents with children: 54%, a higher share than 90% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, households average 2.7 people; in Kilcock, 3. For households of parents with children, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 43%. Locally, 4.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
More flats than 58% of Irish towns: 14% of households in Kilcock
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 make up 0.1%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. For comparison, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
€83,330 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 €83,330 gross, 39% more than the Ireland median (€60,120). County median: €73,000 (Co. Kildare).
More residents born outside Ireland than 62% of Irish towns: 25%
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.
24% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (5.1%); 2.1% speak English not well or not at all. More residents with another country’s citizenship than in 61% of Irish towns: 17%. The benchmark for residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns: 22%.
2.1% of residents speak Irish every day outside education
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
No town in Co. Kildare beats Maynooth (2.2%). The wider picture: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
70% of residents said they are Catholic, fewer than in 58% 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: 72% of Kilcock · Co. Kildare’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (16%), Asian or Asian Irish (6.2%) and Black or Black Irish (3.3%). As a reference point, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Against a figure of 17% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with no religion in Kilcock comes in at 18%.
Only 3.9% of residents give unpaid care in Kilcock
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.
In Kilcock, 36% of residents 15 and over are married, beside 34% across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
Kilcock: 47% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, above 71% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
18% of Kilcock’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 5.7% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The wider picture: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
4th lowest median age among 41 towns of 7,526 to 10,077
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Grand Canal Dock is the youngest (32.1); Dalkey the oldest (50.3). Nearest to Kilcock in age: Dubber (32.5), Cherry Orchard (33), Kinsealy-Drinan (34.4) and Ballybough (34.6).
Every neighbour of Kilcock has an older population
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 Kilcock’s residents
What is the population of Kilcock?
Kilcock had 8,674 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 31% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Kilcock?
The median age is 33.1, younger than 93% of Irish towns. 31% are under 18 and 5.9% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Kilcock?
44% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (3,366 people), and 2.1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Kilcock?
72% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 25% were born abroad and 17% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Kilcock?
70% are Catholic, 18% have no religion and 13% another religion; 7.5% didn’t say.
Is Kilcock good for families?
54% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 31% of residents are under 18. Schools near Kilcock are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Kilcock?
Median gross household income in Kilcock was €83,330 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).