Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainProsperous ranks above 93% of Irish towns on households of parents with children: 56%
Across Ireland’s towns, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment; in Prosperous, 1.9%. At the 2022 Census Prosperous was home to 2,413 people in 795 households. Locally, 15% of residents are aged 15 to 24. This Co. Kildare town has fewer one-person households than 81% of Irish towns, at 17%.
What stands out about the people of Prosperous
A town of families
44% of households are couples with children and 12% lone parents with children, more than in 93% of Irish towns; 22% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
+4% since 2016: slower than 71% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, the typical town changed +8%; across Co. Kildare’s towns, +14%.
Only 12% of residents are 65 or over in Prosperous
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Half of Prosperous’s residents are over 38, older than in 54% of Irish towns. On average, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Leixlip, the oldest of Co. Kildare’s towns by this measure, it is 17%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Kildare 51.0%, Ireland 51.2%.
Prosperous ranks above 81% of Irish towns on students among residents 15 and over: 13%
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
In Prosperous, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 41% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 14%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. For Prosperous, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 5.1%.
Larger households than 92% of Irish towns: 3.1 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.
By its share of shared households of unrelated adults (3.6%), Prosperous is below 70% of Irish towns.
Only 7.3% of households in Prosperous have no car or van
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. About one household in 14 lives without a car or van.
Before tax, the median household income is €68,770 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 €68,770 gross, 14% more than the Ireland median (€60,120). Countywide, Co. Kildare has a median of €73,000.
15% of residents were born outside Ireland, below 83% 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.
9.6% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (1.2%); 1.2% speak English not well or not at all. Across Ireland’s towns, residents born outside Ireland come to 22%. Residents with another country’s citizenship are rarer here than in just over four fifths of Irish towns.
0.6% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 90% 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
The highest share in Co. Kildare belongs to Maynooth (2.2%). Set beside that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns. The ability to speak Irish extends to 972 residents (44% of those aged 3 and over).
86% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 85% 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: 86% of Prosperous · Co. Kildare’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White Irish, the biggest groups are Other White (8.2%), Black or Black Irish (2.4%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.4%). 78% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 84% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 17% of residents said they have no religion; in Prosperous, 16%.
Prosperous: 39% of residents 15 and over are married, above 84% 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.
Unpaid carers make up 5.9%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Below 61% of Irish towns: 31% 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
Postgraduate qualifications are held by 9.5% of adults here, while 10% stopped 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%.
Every nearby town is younger than Prosperous
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 Prosperous’s residents
What is the population of Prosperous?
Prosperous had 2,413 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Prosperous?
The median age is 38. 28% are under 18 and 12% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Prosperous?
44% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (972 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Prosperous?
86% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 9.2% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Prosperous?
78% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 6.5% another religion; 5% didn’t say.
Is Prosperous good for families?
56% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 28% of residents are under 18. Schools near Prosperous are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Prosperous?
Median gross household income in Prosperous was €68,770 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).