Photo: James Allan · CC BY-SA 2.09.6% of residents said they have no religion, below 95% of Irish towns
Across Ireland’s towns, households average 2.7 people; in Edenderry, 3. The town is home to 7,888 residents in 2,642 households, by the 2022 Census. The share of households of parents with children stands at 48%. At 11%, the share of residents aged 65 and over is lower than in 69% of Irish towns.
+9% since 2016, a pace 57% of Irish towns didn’t match
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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +7% across Co. Offaly’s towns.
Edenderry ranks above 75% of Irish towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 14%
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: one in ten residents. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. With a median age of 36.9, Edenderry is younger than 60% of Irish towns. In Ferbane, the oldest of Co. Offaly’s towns by this measure, it is 22%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Edenderry, 36.9. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Offaly 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
Only 6.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Edenderry
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
With students among residents 15 and over at 11%, Edenderry is ahead of 62% of Irish towns on that count. As a reference point, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
20% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 69% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Offaly’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
On the census count, 4.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. One-person households make up 24% across Ireland’s towns.
Below 56% of Irish towns: 16% of households have no car or van
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
No internet at all: 11% (typical: 7.6%). Edenderry has fewer holiday homes than 74% of Irish towns, at 0.1%. For comparison, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Broadband: 86% of households.
A median household income of €53,700 a year
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 €53,700 sits 11% below Ireland (€60,120). Countywide, Co. Offaly has a median of €56,050.
Above 82% of Irish towns: 22% of residents are citizens of another country
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 born outside Ireland (28%), Edenderry is above 73% of Irish towns. Elsewhere, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. The most common home language after English is Polish (5.7%); in all 27% speak another language, and 7.3% speak English not well or not at all.
In Edenderry, 31% 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
In all, 2,133 residents aged 3 and over (31%) can speak Irish. On daily speakers of Irish outside education, Edenderry sits lower than 65% of Irish towns: 0.9%.
Fewer residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 75% of Irish towns: 70%
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: 70% of Edenderry · Co. Offaly’s towns 87% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (22%), Other, including mixed (3.7%) and Asian or Asian Irish (2.7%). 74% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 69% of Irish towns. The wider picture: 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns.
Above 65% of Irish towns: 36% of residents 15 and over are married
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.
Unpaid carers make up 5.1%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 93% of Irish towns: 18%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Across Ireland’s towns, one in ten adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Edenderry, 15%, and 4.5% hold a postgraduate qualification. Typically, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 6,710 to 9,031 people, the 19th youngest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Temple Bar (31.4), the youngest, and Dalkey (50.3), the oldest. Nearest to Edenderry in age: Clane (36.6), Dunboyne (36.6), Frankfield and Grange (37.1) and Booterstown (37.2).
Every neighbour of Edenderry has a younger population
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. Offaly’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Offaly has fewer than five towns of 2,500 or more, so its figure is the median of its towns of 1,000 or more; the national figure is the median of 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 Edenderry’s residents
What is the population of Edenderry?
Edenderry had 7,888 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Edenderry?
The median age is 36.9, younger than 60% of Irish towns. 27% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Edenderry?
31% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (2,133 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Edenderry?
70% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 28% were born abroad and 22% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Edenderry?
74% are Catholic, 9.6% have no religion and 16% another religion; 7.7% didn’t say.
Is Edenderry good for families?
48% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 27% of residents are under 18. Schools near Edenderry are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Edenderry?
Median gross household income in Edenderry was €53,700 in 2022, against €56,050 across Co. Offaly 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).