Photo: Kieran Campbell · CC BY-SA 2.0A larger share of households of parents with children than 97% of Irish towns: 59%
Households without a car or van make up 5.4%, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. At the 2022 Census Kildalkey was home to 739 people in 234 households. For Kildalkey, the census puts residents aged 65 and over at 7.7%. More residents who describe themselves as White Irish than in 96% of Irish towns: 90%.
+5% since 2016, a pace below 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.
The median across Ireland’s towns is +8%, and across Co. Meath’s towns +11%.
16% of residents are aged 15 to 24, a share 90% of Irish towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 10–14, with 13% of residents, 1.8 times the share across Ireland’s towns. With a median age of 36.6, Kildalkey is younger than 64% of Irish towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
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%.
Kildalkey sits above 93% of Irish towns for students among residents 15 and over (15%)
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
By occupation, managers, directors and senior officials are over-represented: 12%, against a typical 7.8%. Against that, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 3.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
1.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, below 99% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, households average 2.7 people; in Kildalkey, 3.2. At 18%, the share of one-person households is lower than in 76% of Irish towns. As a yardstick, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns.
Below 96% of Irish towns: 2.1% of households live in a flat or apartment
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: 92% of households. Typically, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
Half above, half below €77,050 a year in household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €77,050 a year before tax, the median household income is 28% above that of Ireland (€60,120). That compares with €70,660 across Co. Meath.
Kildalkey sits below 98% of Irish towns for residents with another country’s citizenship (4.8%)
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.
7.8% speak a language other than English at home, French most of all (0.9%); 0.5% speak English not well or not at all. On residents born outside Ireland, Kildalkey sits lower than 88% of Irish towns: 14%. Across Ireland’s towns, 15% of residents are citizens of another country.
42% of Kildalkey can speak Irish
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
Daily speakers of Irish outside education make up 1.3%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Some 295 people here, just over two in five residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish.
Kildalkey: 75% of residents said they are Catholic, above 72% 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: 90% of Kildalkey · Co. Meath’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (6.1%), Black or Black Irish (2.1%) and Other, including mixed (1.8%). Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 16%, fewer than in three fifths of Irish towns. For residents who said they are Catholic, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 71%.
In Kildalkey, 41% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 93% 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.
6.9% of residents give unpaid care (Ireland’s towns: 5.4%). Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 55% of Irish towns: 34%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Among residents 15 and over, 19% are still studying. Adults with a degree or higher make up 36% across Ireland’s towns. 9.5% of Kildalkey’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 8.8% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%).
Kildalkey is younger than 4 of its 6 nearest neighbours
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. 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 Kildalkey’s residents
What is the population of Kildalkey?
Kildalkey had 739 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Kildalkey?
The median age is 36.6. 33% are under 18 and 7.7% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Kildalkey?
42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (295 people), and 1.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Kildalkey?
90% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 14% were born abroad and 4.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Kildalkey?
75% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 9.4% another religion; 3.7% didn’t say.
Is Kildalkey good for families?
59% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 33% of residents are under 18. Schools near Kildalkey are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Kildalkey?
Median gross household income in Kildalkey was €77,050 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).