Photo: T Michael Weddle · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 1.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Kildimo
By its share of households of parents with children (53%), Kildimo is above 87% of Irish towns. Meanwhile, households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. At the 2022 Census Kildimo was home to 512 people in 174 households. Census figures put residents with no religion at 8.9% here.
Kildimo grew +8% from 2016 to 2022, ahead of 52% 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.
A median age of 36.9: Kildimo is younger than 60% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 12%. No age band is larger than 35–39: one in ten residents. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 56% of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Limerick 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 3.8%, a lower share than 96% 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
Students among residents 15 and over make up 11%, against 10% across Ireland’s towns. The share of residents who moved in within the year across Ireland’s towns is 7.5%.
2.9 people per household, more than in 81% 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.
The share of one-person households is 18%, against 24% across Ireland’s towns.
Households without a car or van make up 6% in Kildimo, less than in 93% 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
Connected households: 89% on broadband; 9.1% offline (typical: 7.6%). Set beside that, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Households here have a median income of €74,300 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Kildimo’s households have a gross income above €74,300 a year, 24% above the median for Ireland (€60,120). That compares with €55,950 across Co. Limerick.
Below 98% of Irish towns: 7.7% of residents were born outside Ireland
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.
In Kildimo, 2.6% of residents are citizens of another country, beside 15% across Ireland’s towns. The share of residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns is 22%. Another language is spoken at home by 5.8%, most often Polish (1.8%); 0.2% speak English not well or not at all.
In Kildimo, 0.4% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 99% 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
Farranshone leads Co. Limerick with 1.9%. Against that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
More residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 99% of Irish towns: 95%
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: 95% of Kildimo · Co. Limerick’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, 71% of residents said they are Catholic; in Kildimo, 88%. By way of comparison, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. After White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (3.7%), Irish Traveller (0.8%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.4%).
Married residents 15 and over: 40%, a higher share than 90% 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 4.7%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
38% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, a share 56% of Irish towns don’t reach
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
7.4% of Kildimo’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 8% 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.
Around Kildimo, 4 of 6 towns have a higher median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kildimo | 512 | — | 36.9 | 15% | 53% |
| Adare | 1,224 | 6.8 km | 42.9 | 20% | 37% |
| Shannon | 10,256 | 10.5 km | 38.5 | 15% | 44% |
| Dooradoyle | 18,593 | 10.8 km | 36.4 | 11% | 44% |
| Askeaton | 1,236 | 11.3 km | 38.2 | 18% | 43% |
| Caherdavin | 7,364 | 11.7 km | 35.3 | 16% | 39% |
| Ballinacurra | 3,719 | 11.8 km | 38.6 | 18% | 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.
Questions about Kildimo’s residents
What is the population of Kildimo?
Kildimo had 512 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Kildimo?
The median age is 36.9. 29% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Kildimo?
49% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (227 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Kildimo?
95% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 7.7% were born abroad and 2.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Kildimo?
88% are Catholic, 8.9% have no religion and 3.2% another religion; 3.1% didn’t say.
Is Kildimo good for families?
53% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 29% of residents are under 18. Schools near Kildimo are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Kildimo?
Median gross household income in Kildimo was €74,300 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. 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).