Photo: Darrin Antrobus · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer car-free households than 83% of Irish towns: 8.1%
43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns, against 50% in Naas. Census figures put one-person households at 17% in the town. With a median age of 36.9, Naas is younger than 60% of Irish towns. This Co. Kildare town is home to 26,180 residents in 8,819 households, by the 2022 Census.
What stands out about the people of Naas
Growing faster than most
Naas went from about 21,490 people in 2016 to 26,180 in 2022, +22%: faster growth than in 92% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Faster growth than 92% of Irish towns: Naas changed by +22% since 2016
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.
Below 69% of Irish towns: 11% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 12%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. The largest age band is 35–39: 9% of residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Naas, 36.9. 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%.
In Naas, 9.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, more than in 69% 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
50% of Naas’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 12% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Larger households than 82% of Irish towns: 3 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.
3.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of households in flats than 57% of Irish towns, at 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
Little separates the share of holiday homes here, 0.1%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment. Broadband: 95% of households.
€82,010 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.
Half of households are above €82,010 a year before tax: 36% over the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Kildare as a whole, the figure is €73,000.
In Naas, 25% of residents were born outside Ireland, more than in 61% of Irish towns
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.
Most residents from abroad were born outside the EU and UK (10%) or elsewhere in the EU (4.7%). As a yardstick, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. On residents with another country’s citizenship, Naas sits higher than 58% of Irish towns: 16%.
Able to speak Irish: 44% in Naas
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
There is little gap on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.3%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Irish speakers number 10,437, or 44% of residents aged 3 and over. In Co. Kildare, Maynooth has the highest share (2.2%).
Naas ranks below 62% of Irish towns on residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 75%
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: 75% of Naas · Co. Kildare’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (15%), Asian or Asian Irish (5.7%) and Other, including mixed (2.8%). Across the comparison, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. Naas has fewer residents who said they are Catholic than 56% of Irish towns, at 70%. Residents with no religion are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 17%.
Naas: 40% of residents 15 and over are married, above 87% 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.
Naas sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 5%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. For comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher: 49%, a higher share than 77% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
19% of Naas’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 5.5% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Of 41 towns its size (18,398 to 33,886 people), the 20th youngest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Jobstown (32.4), the youngest, and Beaumont (42.9), the oldest. Nearest to Naas in age: Ballymun (36.6), Mullingar (36.7), Clondalkin (37.1) and Blanchardstown (37.3).
Naas is younger than 2 of its 6 nearest neighbours
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 Naas’s residents
What is the population of Naas?
Naas had 26,180 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 22% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Naas?
The median age is 36.9, younger than 60% of Irish towns. 25% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Naas?
44% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (10,437 people), and 1.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Naas?
75% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 25% were born abroad and 16% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Naas?
70% are Catholic, 17% have no religion and 13% another religion; 4.1% didn’t say.
Is Naas good for families?
50% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Naas are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Naas?
Median gross household income in Naas was €82,010 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).