Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0A higher share of holiday homes than 94% of Irish towns, at 3.8%
Half of Dungarvan’s residents are over 40.5, older than in 81% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 10,081 residents and 3,912 households in the town. Locally, 29% of households are one person living alone. Across Ireland’s towns, 71% of residents said they are Catholic; here, 78%.
+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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +9% across Co. Waterford’s towns.
Above 81% of Irish towns: 18% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 40–44: 7.9% of residents. Just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 77% of Irish towns. Across the comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Lisduggan, the oldest of Co. Waterford’s towns by this measure, it is 25%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Dungarvan, 40.5. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Waterford 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
Below 78% of Irish towns: 9% of residents 15 and over are students
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
In Dungarvan, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 33% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 18%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 7.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
2.5 people per household, fewer than in 77% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Waterford’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Compared with 43% across Ireland’s towns, 41% of households are parents with children here. Fewer shared households of unrelated adults than in 68% of Irish towns: 3.7%.
Only 8.7% of households live in a flat or apartment in Dungarvan
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
85% have broadband at home and 12% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). In Dungarvan, a fifth of households have no car or van.
Median gross household income: €47,030 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €47,030 a year here, 22% below Ireland (€60,120). Countywide, Co. Waterford has a median of €51,540.
Residents born outside Ireland make up 20% in Dungarvan, less than in 61% 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 with another country’s citizenship: 13%, below three fifths of Irish towns. The comparison figure for residents born outside Ireland is 22% across Ireland’s towns. The most common home language after English is Polish (5%); in all 14% speak another language, and 1.7% speak English not well or not at all.
A higher share of daily speakers of Irish outside education than 91% of Irish towns, at 2%
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
Irish speakers number 3,925, or 43% of residents aged 3 and over. It is the highest share of Co. Waterford’s 12 towns of 2,500+. Elsewhere, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A higher White Irish share than 64% of Irish towns: 82% of residents
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 Dungarvan · Co. Waterford’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White Irish, the main groups are Other White (12%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.5%) and Other, including mixed (1.5%). Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 78% across Ireland’s towns. At 15%, the share of residents with no religion is lower than in 67% of Irish towns.
In Dungarvan, 33% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 61% 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.
Unpaid carers account for 5.6%. 55% of Dungarvan’s residents 15 and over are single and 33% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
Dungarvan ranks below 65% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 30%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate qualifications are held by one in ten adults here, while 13% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Adults with a degree or higher: 36% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
41 towns of 8,707 to 11,704 people: this is the 13th oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Parnell Square is the youngest (34.2); Donaghmede the oldest (43.8). Nearest to Dungarvan in age: Palmerston (40.4), Churchtown (40.5), Skerries (40.7) and Tramore (40.7).
The places around Dungarvan
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dungarvan | 10,081 | — | 40.5 | 18% | 41% |
| Ballinroad | 1,389 | 3.4 km | 34.9 | 8% | 57% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Waterford’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Waterford’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 Dungarvan’s residents
What is the population of Dungarvan?
Dungarvan had 10,081 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Dungarvan?
The median age is 40.5, older than 81% of Irish towns. 23% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Dungarvan?
43% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (3,925 people), and 2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Dungarvan?
82% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 20% were born abroad and 13% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Dungarvan?
78% are Catholic, 15% have no religion and 7.5% another religion; 5.1% didn’t say.
Is Dungarvan good for families?
41% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Dungarvan are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Dungarvan?
Median gross household income in Dungarvan was €47,030 in 2022, against €51,540 across Co. Waterford 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).