Photo: liam murphy · CC BY-SA 2.0Kilmead ranks below 99% of Irish towns on shared households of unrelated adults: 0.8%
Households of parents with children: 56% here and 43% across Ireland’s towns. For Kilmead, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 17%. The town has more residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 97% of Irish towns, at 90%. The 2022 Census counted 372 residents in 124 households.
Kilmead grew +9% from 2016 to 2022, ahead of 57% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +14% across Co. Kildare’s towns.
Residents aged 65 and over: 11%, a lower share than 74% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 45–49 than any other five-year age: 13% of residents, 1.8 times the share across Ireland’s towns. On average, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. Half of Kilmead’s residents are under 36.3, younger than in 68% of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Kildare 51.0%, Ireland 51.2%.
15% of residents 15 and over are students, a share 93% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
Workers here lean to process, plant and machine operatives: 16%, against a typical 7.8%. To put it in context, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. Here, 3.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Kilmead households average 3 people, larger than in 85% 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.
Nearly a fifth of households are one person living alone, against 24% across Ireland’s towns.
8.9% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 79% 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
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. About one household in 11 lives without a car or van.
Household income at the median: €58,340 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 €58,340 a year here, close to Ireland (€60,120). Co. Kildare’s median household income is €73,000.
Only 9.9% of Kilmead’s 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.
5.9% speak another language at home, most often French (0.8%); 0.5% speak English not well or not at all. By way of comparison, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Few places have so few residents with another country’s citizenship: 5.6% here, fewer than in 98% of Irish towns.
Kilmead ranks below 90% of Irish towns on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.6%
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
104 residents, 29% of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1%.
Residents with no religion make up 4.6% in Kilmead, less than in 99% 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: 90% of Kilmead · Co. Kildare’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White Irish, most residents describe themselves as Other White (6.2%), Irish Traveller (2.4%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.6%). Few places have as many residents who said they are Catholic: 91% here, more than in 99% of Irish towns. To put it in context, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
Unpaid carers: 8.3%, a higher share than 99% 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.
28% of residents 15 and over are married, against 34% across Ireland’s towns. Unpaid carers: 5.4% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
Only 18% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher in Kilmead
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Kilmead’s adults, 4.2% went on to postgraduate study and 16% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). For adults with a degree or higher, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 36%. Students still in education make up 20% of residents 15 and over.
Kilmead sits below 5 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilmead | 372 | — | 36.3 | 11% | 56% |
| Athy | 11,035 | 7.5 km | 36.6 | 13% | 48% |
| Curragh Camp | 1,076 | 12.3 km | 37.1 | 14% | 45% |
| Dunlavin | 1,074 | 13.6 km | 38.8 | 19% | 53% |
| Ballylinan | 1,167 | 14.0 km | 36.7 | 9.1% | 57% |
| Kildare | 10,302 | 14.2 km | 36 | 9% | 52% |
| Castledermot | 1,685 | 14.4 km | 36.7 | 13% | 49% |
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 Kilmead’s residents
What is the population of Kilmead?
Kilmead had 372 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Kilmead?
The median age is 36.3. 32% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Kilmead?
29% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (104 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Kilmead?
90% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 9.9% were born abroad and 5.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Kilmead?
91% are Catholic, 4.6% have no religion and 4.6% another religion; 1.1% didn’t say.
Is Kilmead good for families?
56% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 32% of residents are under 18. Schools near Kilmead are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Kilmead?
Median gross household income in Kilmead was €58,340 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).