Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0Above 85% of Irish towns: 52% of households are parents with children
In Navan, two thirds of residents describe themselves as White Irish, beside 78% across Ireland’s towns. The 2022 Census put the town’s population at 33,886, in 11,334 households. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 9.5% here. 18% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 76% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Navan
A town of families
40% of households are couples with children and 12% lone parents with children, more than in 85% of Irish towns; 24% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Faster growth than 76% of Irish towns: Navan changed by +13% since 2016
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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +11% across Co. Meath’s towns.
Navan is younger than 75% of Irish towns: a median age of 35.6
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 10–14, with 9% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 are more common here than in 75% of Irish towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Navan, 35.6. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Meath 50.7%, Ireland 51.2%.
In Navan, 12% of residents 15 and over are students, more than in 73% 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
Set against 7.5% across Ireland’s towns, 6.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Navan. For comparison, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
3 people per household, more than in 85% 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.
In Navan, 3.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, beside 4.7% across Ireland’s towns.
Only 13% of households have no car or van in Navan
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
92% of households are on broadband; 6.7% have no internet connection (typical: 7.6%). Elsewhere, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes. Few places have so few households in flats: 12% here, fewer than in 52% of Irish towns.
€62,810 a year is the median household income here
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Navan’s households have a gross income above €62,810 a year and half below, close to the median for Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Meath the median is €70,660.
More residents born abroad than 72% of Irish towns: 28% in Navan
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.
By its share of residents with another country’s citizenship (19%), Navan is above 72% of Irish towns. Set beside that, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born elsewhere in the EU (9.3%), then outside the EU and UK (9.3%).
In Navan, 35% of residents 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
The ability to speak Irish extends to 10,835 residents (35% of those aged 3 and over). Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 56% of Irish towns.
Only 14% of residents said they have no religion in Navan
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: 67% of Navan · Co. Meath’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (19%), Asian or Asian Irish (4.3%) and Black or Black Irish (4.1%). The comparison figure for residents with no religion is 17% across Ireland’s towns. Fewer residents who said they are Catholic than in 57% of Irish towns: 70%.
Married residents 15 and over: 36%, a higher share than 62% 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.
4.6% of residents give unpaid care, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 64% of Irish towns: 30%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A tenth of Navan’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 10% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). For adults with a degree or higher, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 36%.
41 towns of 18,608 to 44,135 people: this is the 10th youngest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Jobstown is the youngest (32.4); Beaumont the oldest (42.9). Nearest to Navan in age: Balbriggan (34.9), Mulhuddart (35.6), Lucan (35.7) and Letterkenny (35.7).
Navan 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. 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 Navan’s residents
What is the population of Navan?
Navan had 33,886 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 13% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Navan?
The median age is 35.6, younger than 75% of Irish towns. 28% are under 18 and 9.5% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Navan?
35% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (10,835 people), and 1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Navan?
67% 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 Navan?
70% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 17% another religion; 5.1% didn’t say.
Is Navan good for families?
52% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 28% of residents are under 18. Schools near Navan are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Navan?
Median gross household income in Navan was €62,810 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).