Photo: JP · CC BY-SA 2.0Households of parents with children: 65%, a higher share than 99% of Irish towns
Where 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns, Robinstown has 3.7%. On the census count, 7.6% of households are one person living alone. 86% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 83% of Irish towns. There were 119 households here at the 2022 Census, home to 412 residents.
Robinstown changed by +5% from 2016 to 2022, behind 66% 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.
For comparison, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +11% across Co. Meath’s towns.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 18% in Robinstown, more than in 94% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Half of Robinstown’s residents are under 36.3, younger than in 68% of Irish towns. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over account for 8.3%. 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
47% women, 53% men
About 115 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Meath 50.7%, Ireland 51.2%.
A higher share of students among residents 15 and over than 94% of Irish towns, at 16%
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
The share of residents who moved in within the year trails 99% of Irish towns: 2.7%. As a reference point, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Bigger households than 99% of Irish towns: 3.5 people each on average
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.
Where 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns, Robinstown has 5.9%.
Households in flats: 5%, a lower share than 88% 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
91% have broadband at home and 5.6% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). The wider picture: 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
€78,870 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.
Households here have a median gross income of €78,870, 31% higher than across Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Meath, the figure is €70,660.
Below 78% of Irish towns: 17% 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.
Residents born abroad were most often born outside the EU and UK (6.6%), then in the UK (6.1%). On average, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. At 10%, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship is lower than in three quarters of Irish towns.
Irish speakers: 46% of Robinstown’s residents
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: 0.8%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. Athboy leads Co. Meath with 2.4%.
A larger share of residents with no religion than 59% of Irish towns: 19%
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: 86% of Robinstown · Co. Meath’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (8.9%), Other, including mixed (2.9%) and Asian or Asian Irish (2.1%). The wider picture: 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Few places have as many residents who said they are Catholic: 72% here, more than in 53% of Irish towns.
Robinstown sits above 91% of Irish towns for married residents 15 and over (40%)
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, 4.9%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Measured more widely, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
More adults with a degree or higher than 57% of Irish towns: 39%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Still in education: just over a fifth of residents 15 and over. Adults with a degree or higher make up 36% across Ireland’s towns. 14% of Robinstown’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 4.5% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%).
Robinstown is younger than 2 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 Robinstown’s residents
What is the population of Robinstown?
Robinstown had 412 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Robinstown?
The median age is 36.3. 32% are under 18 and 8.3% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Robinstown?
46% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (176 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Robinstown?
86% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 17% were born abroad and 10% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Robinstown?
72% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 9.3% another religion; 6.1% didn’t say.
Is Robinstown good for families?
65% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 32% of residents are under 18. Schools near Robinstown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Robinstown?
Median gross household income in Robinstown was €78,870 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).