Photo: LukeG 1001 · CC BY-SA 3.0Dooradoyle ranks below 79% of Irish towns on households without a car or van: 8.9%
The share of shared households of unrelated adults is 8.2%, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. In Dooradoyle, just over one in ten residents are 65 or over. One-person households are rarer here than in 70% of Irish towns. 18,593 residents in 6,428 households: that is Dooradoyle at the 2022 Census.
+6% since 2016: slower than 64% 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, half of towns changed by more than +8%; across Co. Limerick’s towns, by more than +9%.
Younger than 66% of Irish towns: half of Dooradoyle is under 36.4
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
40–44 is the most common age band: 9.4% of residents. Higher than in 54% of Irish towns: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24. In Farranshone, the oldest of Co. Limerick’s towns by this measure, it is 23%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Dooradoyle, 36.4. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Limerick 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
9.7% of residents moved in within a year, more than in 74% 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
48% of Dooradoyle’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. Measured more widely, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
2.8 people per household, more than in 71% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Limerick’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Set against 43% across Ireland’s towns, 44% of households are parents with children in Dooradoyle.
88% of homes are houses
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 reaches 94% of households; 4.6% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). 0.1% of homes are holiday homes, a lower share than in 74% of Irish towns. In Dooradoyle, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment.
Household income, middle of the range: €71,550 a year
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 €71,550 a year before tax: 19% over the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Limerick’s median household income is €55,950.
Residents born outside Ireland make up 28% in Dooradoyle, more than in 72% 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 35%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
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.
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are outside the EU and UK (11%) and in Poland (4.9%). As a reference point, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Compared with other places, residents with another country’s citizenship are common here: 19%, more than in 73% of Irish towns.
1.2% of residents speak Irish every day outside education
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
Top of Co. Limerick: Farranshone, at 1.9%. Across Ireland’s towns, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education.
69% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, below 78% 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: 69% of Dooradoyle · Co. Limerick’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
15% of residents said they have no religion, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (13%), Asian or Asian Irish (11%) and Other, including mixed (3.4%). Dooradoyle has fewer residents who said they are Catholic than 61% of Irish towns, at 69%.
Above 71% of Irish towns: 37% of residents 15 and over are married
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.
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 4.9%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Measured more widely, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Above 75% of Irish towns: 48% 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 17% of adults here, while 5.3% 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%.
Of 41 towns its size (15,296 to 22,549 people), the 13th youngest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is East Wall (31.2) and the oldest Ballinteer (44.1). Nearest to Dooradoyle in age: Rathmines East (36.1), Tallaght (36.3), Carrigaline (36.6) and Ballymun (36.6).
Dooradoyle is younger than 3 of its 6 nearest neighbours
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dooradoyle | 18,593 | — | 36.4 | 11% | 44% |
| Ballinacurra | 3,719 | 2.1 km | 38.6 | 18% | 33% |
| Rathbane | 4,111 | 3.1 km | 37.9 | 15% | 47% |
| Prospect and Newtown Pery | 4,122 | 3.1 km | 40.8 | 18% | 31% |
| Dock | 6,258 | 3.2 km | 35.4 | 9.4% | 24% |
| Limerick City Centre | 3,434 | 3.9 km | 34.8 | 5.9% | 14% |
| Galvone | 5,412 | 3.9 km | 36.2 | 13% | 33% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Limerick’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Limerick’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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas
Questions about Dooradoyle’s residents
What is the population of Dooradoyle?
Dooradoyle had 18,593 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Dooradoyle?
The median age is 36.4, younger than 66% of Irish towns. 25% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Dooradoyle?
43% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (7,199 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Dooradoyle?
69% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 28% were born abroad and 19% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Dooradoyle?
69% are Catholic, 15% have no religion and 17% another religion; 6.1% didn’t say.
Is Dooradoyle good for families?
44% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Dooradoyle are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Dooradoyle?
Median gross household income in Dooradoyle was €71,550 in 2022, against €55,950 across Co. Limerick 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 · Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas. 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).