Photo: Magnolia677 · CC BY 4.015% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 90% of Irish towns
Households of parents with children make up 49%, against 43% across Ireland’s towns. Across Leixlip, 7.7% of households have no car or van. On residents aged 65 and over, Leixlip sits higher than 72% of Irish towns: 17%. The town counted 16,733 residents and 5,715 households at the 2022 Census.
From 2016 to 2022, 50% of Irish towns grew faster than Leixlip: +8%
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.
Leixlip is older than 62% of Irish towns: a median age of 38.6
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 35–39: 8.7% of residents. Residents aged 15 to 24 are rarer here than in 60% of Irish towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Leixlip, 38.6. 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%.
51% of residents belong to the professional, managerial and technical classes
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
Across Ireland’s towns, just over a third of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Leixlip, 51% and 11%. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 8.3%.
Larger households than 78% of Irish towns: 2.9 people on average
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.
Where 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns, Leixlip has 3.1%.
Households in flats make up 8.2% in Leixlip, less than in 73% 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
Broadband: 96% of households. Across the comparison, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. No internet at all: 3.2% (typical: 7.6%).
Median household income: €81,260 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
The median household earns €81,260 gross, 35% more than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Kildare as a whole has a median of €73,000.
Leixlip sits below 72% of Irish towns for residents with another country’s citizenship (11%)
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.
18% of residents were born outside Ireland, against 22% across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Polish leads the languages spoken at home (1.8%), among the 16% who speak another language there; 1.5% speak English not well or not at all.
Leixlip sits above 85% of Irish towns for daily speakers of Irish outside education (1.7%)
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%). Measured more widely, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns. Speakers of Irish: 7,032 residents, 45% of those aged 3 and over.
A larger share of residents with no religion than 66% of Irish towns: 20%
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: 82% of Leixlip · Co. Kildare’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
69% of residents said they are Catholic, against 71% across Ireland’s towns. For Leixlip, the census puts residents who describe themselves as White Irish at 82%. By way of comparison, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
More married residents 15 and over than 95% of Irish towns: 42%
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.
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 4.8%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher: 43%, a higher share than 66% of Irish towns
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, 9.7% of adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Leixlip, 6.5%, and 15% hold a postgraduate qualification. The comparison figure for adults with a degree or higher is 36% across Ireland’s towns.
Oldest by rank: 17th of 41 towns of 14,148 to 19,287 people
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Castletroy is the youngest (29); Ballinteer the oldest (44.1). Nearest to Leixlip in age: Bishopstown (38), Tullamore (38.1), Clontarf West (38.7) and Cobh (38.7).
Leixlip is older than every town around it
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 Leixlip’s residents
What is the population of Leixlip?
Leixlip had 16,733 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Leixlip?
The median age is 38.6, older than 62% of Irish towns. 23% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Leixlip?
45% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (7,032 people), and 1.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Leixlip?
82% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Leixlip?
69% are Catholic, 20% have no religion and 11% another religion; 3.9% didn’t say.
Is Leixlip good for families?
49% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Leixlip are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Leixlip?
Median gross household income in Leixlip was €81,260 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).