Photo: Conor Dunne · CC060% of households are parents with children, a share 98% of Irish towns don’t reach
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 767 residents and 252 households in Donore. Across Donore, 1.6% of households live in a flat or apartment. 83% of residents said they are Catholic, against 71% across Ireland’s towns.
From 2016 to 2022, Donore outgrew 75% of Irish towns: +12%
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 Co. Meath’s towns the median is +11%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
Donore: 15% of residents are aged 15 to 24, above 86% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The median age in Donore is 37.2, lower than in 56% of Irish towns. For comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over: nearly a tenth of the total. In Kells, the oldest of Co. Meath’s towns by this measure, it is 14%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Meath 50.7%, Ireland 51.2%.
Donore sits below 94% of Irish towns for residents who moved in within the year (4.2%)
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
Across Ireland’s towns, just over a third of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Donore, 36% and 15%. The usual figure: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Donore households average 3 people, larger than in 90% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Meath’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Compared with 24% across Ireland’s towns, 17% of households are one person living alone here.
In Donore, 7.3% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 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 93%; 5.8% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). One household in 14 has no car or van. Higher than in 86% of Irish towns: 1.1% of homes are holiday homes.
€63,860 a year: the median household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€63,860 a year before tax puts the median household 6% above Ireland (€60,120). Co. Meath as a whole has a median of €70,660.
In Donore, 12% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 95% 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.
In Donore, 5.8% of residents are citizens of another country, beside 15% across Ireland’s towns. For residents born outside Ireland, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 22%. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the UK (5.5%) and outside the EU and UK (2.4%).
0.8% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 74% 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
Speakers of Irish: 248 residents, 34% of those aged 3 and over. In Co. Meath, Athboy has the highest share (2.4%). The comparison figure for daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
92% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, a share 98% of Irish towns don’t reach
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: 92% of Donore · Co. Meath’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion make up 12%, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (5.6%), Asian or Asian Irish (1.2%) and Black or Black Irish (0.7%). The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 78% across Ireland’s towns.
Donore sits above 83% of Irish towns for married residents 15 and over (39%)
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.
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 5.1%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. For comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 85% of Irish towns: 22%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
5.7% of Donore’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 12% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Typically, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Of the 6 towns nearest Donore, 2 are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donore | 767 | — | 37.2 | 9.5% | 60% |
| Duleek | 4,899 | 3.6 km | 35.2 | 8.9% | 56% |
| Tullyallen | 1,697 | 5.4 km | 33.2 | 6.1% | 67% |
| Drogheda | 44,135 | 5.5 km | 37.8 | 13% | 47% |
| Slane | 1,445 | 8.2 km | 39.2 | 13% | 52% |
| Kentstown | 1,195 | 10.0 km | 35.8 | 10% | 58% |
| Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney | 15,642 | 10.6 km | 36.8 | 10% | 53% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Meath’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Meath’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 Donore’s residents
What is the population of Donore?
Donore had 767 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 12% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Donore?
The median age is 37.2. 30% are under 18 and 9.5% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Donore?
34% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (248 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Donore?
92% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 5.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Donore?
83% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 4.8% another religion; 1.7% didn’t say.
Is Donore good for families?
60% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Donore are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Donore?
Median gross household income in Donore was €63,860 in 2022, against €70,660 across Co. Meath 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).