Photo: Row17 · CC BY-SA 2.0Households of parents with children make up 49% in Trim, more than in 77% of Irish towns
Half of Trim’s residents are over 38.9, older than in nearly two thirds of Irish towns. At the 2022 Census Trim was home to 9,563 people in 3,308 households. On the census count, 11% of households have no car or van. Households average 2.8 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns.
Trim’s population moved +4% on 2016, less than in 74% 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 change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +11% across Co. Meath’s towns.
Trim ranks above 62% of Irish towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 13%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 40–44 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. Lower than in 51% of Irish towns: 14% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Trim, 38.9. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Meath 50.7%, Ireland 51.2%.
41% of residents belong to the professional, managerial and technical classes
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, 34% of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Trim, 41% and 14%. Lower than in 55% of Irish towns: 7.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Trim sits below 62% of Irish towns for one-person households (22%)
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.
3.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 4.7%. Elsewhere, 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
In Trim, 9.6% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 65% 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: 90% on broadband; 7.9% offline (typical: 7.6%). On average, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes: 0.3% of the total.
Half above, half below €62,070 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.
A median gross household income of €62,070 sits close to Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Meath, the figure is €70,660.
Residents with another country’s citizenship: 12%, a lower share than 68% 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.
Residents born abroad were most often born in the UK (5.5%), then elsewhere in the EU (5.3%). As a yardstick, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Lower than in 63% of Irish towns: 19% of residents were born outside Ireland.
1.7% of Trim’s residents use Irish every day outside education
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
No town in Co. Meath beats Athboy (2.4%). The benchmark for daily speakers of Irish outside education across Ireland’s towns: 1.1%.
More residents who said they are Catholic than 75% of Irish towns: 75%
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: 82% of Trim · Co. Meath’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (12%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.5%) and Other, including mixed (1.6%). Across Ireland’s towns, 71% of residents said they are Catholic. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White Irish are common here: 82%, more than in 64% of Irish towns. Residents with no religion: 16% here and 17% across Ireland’s towns.
37% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 72% of Irish towns don’t reach
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.
The census found that 5.4% of residents give unpaid care in Trim. 53% of the town’s residents 15 and over are single and 37% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
33% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 55% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, 11% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 10% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 8,280 to 11,035 people, the 19th oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Grand Canal Dock (32.1), the youngest, and Donaghmede (43.8), the oldest. Nearest to Trim in age: Shannon (38.5), Waterford City Centre (38.8), Kilmore (39) and Finglas North (39.4).
Every nearby town is younger than Trim
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 Trim’s residents
What is the population of Trim?
Trim had 9,563 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Trim?
The median age is 38.9, older than 66% of Irish towns. 25% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Trim?
38% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (3,384 people), and 1.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Trim?
82% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 19% were born abroad and 12% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Trim?
75% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 8.4% another religion; 4.1% didn’t say.
Is Trim good for families?
49% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Trim are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Trim?
Median gross household income in Trim was €62,070 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).