Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0Only 5.3% of residents are 65 or over in Sallins
16% of households are one person living alone (Ireland’s towns: 24%). Sallins’s 2,111 households held 6,269 residents at the 2022 Census. In Sallins, just over a fifth of households live in a flat or apartment. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White Irish are scarce here: 73%, fewer than in just over two thirds of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Sallins
A town of families
44% of households are couples with children and 9.9% lone parents with children, more than in 89% of Irish towns; 24% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A +11% change since 2016: faster than 67% 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.
Set beside +8% across Ireland’s towns and +14% across Co. Kildare’s towns.
Half of Sallins is under 34.8, younger than 82% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
35–39 is the most common age band: one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Here, 14% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Sallins, 34.8. The typical town is 37.6.
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%.
Students among residents 15 and over: 13%, a higher share than 83% 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
Workers here lean to professional occupations: 26%, against a typical 21%. At 7.6%, the share of residents who moved in within the year is higher than in 53% of Irish towns. Typically, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
A family town: 54% of households are parents with children
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.
At 3 people, the average household compares with 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. 4.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, a lower share than in 53% of Irish towns. Typically, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
7.3% of households have no car or van, below 87% 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
The share of households with broadband is 95%; 3.3% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). One household in every 14 has no car or van. On holiday homes, Sallins sits lower than 74% of Irish towns: 0.1%.
€79,060 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.
€79,060 a year before tax puts the median household 31% above Ireland (€60,120). Co. Kildare as a whole has a median of €73,000.
A higher share of residents born outside Ireland than 56% of Irish towns, at 24%
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.
At home, 25% use another language, chiefly Polish (7.7%), and 3.2% speak English not well or not at all. Measured more widely, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. 16% of residents are citizens of another country, more than in 56% of Irish towns.
Can speak Irish: 42% of Sallins’s residents
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
Within Co. Kildare, Maynooth has the largest share, 2.2%. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are more common here than in 52% of Irish towns.
Sallins: 19% of residents said they have no religion, above 62% 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: 73% of Sallins · Co. Kildare’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (17%), Black or Black Irish (3.9%) and Asian or Asian Irish (3.3%). 70% of residents said they are Catholic, a lower share than in 58% of Irish towns.
More married residents 15 and over than 69% of Irish towns: 37%
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.
At 4.9%, unpaid carers sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher: 48%, a higher share than 73% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate: 19% of adults. As a yardstick, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Primary level or earlier: 5.1%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
Youngest by rank: 9th of 41 towns of 5,478 to 7,155 people
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Gillabbey is the youngest (25.6); Sutton the oldest (45.4). Nearest to Sallins in age: Rathgar (34.2), Dunshaughlin (34.7), Carrigtwohill (34.9) and Eyre Square (35.1).
Sallins sits below 5 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
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 Sallins’s residents
What is the population of Sallins?
Sallins had 6,269 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 11% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Sallins?
The median age is 34.8, younger than 82% of Irish towns. 29% are under 18 and 5.3% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Sallins?
42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (2,399 people), and 1.1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Sallins?
73% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 24% were born abroad and 16% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Sallins?
70% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 11% another religion; 3.9% didn’t say.
Is Sallins good for families?
54% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 29% of residents are under 18. Schools near Sallins are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Sallins?
Median gross household income in Sallins was €79,060 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).