Photo: William Murphy · CC BY-SA 3.0Older than 93% of Irish towns: half of Enniskerry is over 42.7
Compared with 17% across Ireland’s towns, 6.9% of households have no car or van here. Enniskerry counted 2,000 residents and 667 households at the 2022 Census. Locally, nearly a quarter of residents said they have no religion. One-person households are rarer here than in 83% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Enniskerry
Older than most towns
Half of Enniskerry’s residents are under 42.7 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 16% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Faster growth than 58% of Irish towns: Enniskerry changed by +9% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +13% across Co. Wicklow’s towns.
14% of residents are aged 15 to 24, a share 75% of Irish towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
55–59 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over account for 16%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Wicklow 50.8%, Ireland 51.2%.
Enniskerry: 12% of residents 15 and over are students, above 74% 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
55% of Enniskerry’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 10% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. For Enniskerry, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 7.5%.
In Enniskerry, 2.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 93% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Wicklow’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Where 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns, Enniskerry has 51%. Households average 3 people. Typically, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns.
Only 4.3% of households live in a flat or apartment in Enniskerry
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 5.4% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Compared with other places, holiday homes are scarce here: 0.1%, fewer than in 74% of Irish towns. Households in flats make up 12% across Ireland’s towns.
Median gross household income: €85,410 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 €85,410 sits 42% above Ireland (€60,120). County median: €64,080 (Co. Wicklow).
In Enniskerry, 7.5% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 90% 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.
The most common home language after English is French (1.9%); in all 8.6% speak another language, and 0.8% speak English not well or not at all. The wider picture: 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Residents born outside Ireland are rarer here than in 80% of Irish towns.
In Enniskerry, 0.7% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 82% of Irish towns
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
Top of Co. Wicklow: Bray, at 1.4%. Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.1% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 89% of Irish towns: 88%
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: 88% of Enniskerry · Co. Wicklow’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who said they are Catholic is 71%; Enniskerry has 65%. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 78% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (8.5%), Irish Traveller (1.2%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.2%).
Married residents 15 and over make up 41% in Enniskerry, more than in 93% 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 make up 6.3%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. To put it in context, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
50% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, a share 79% of Irish towns don’t reach
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 22% of adults here, while 7.4% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). To put it in context, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Nearby, 1 of 6 towns have older populations than Enniskerry
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enniskerry | 2,000 | — | 42.7 | 16% | 51% |
| Kilmacanogue | 1,240 | 3.4 km | 43.1 | 18% | 45% |
| Bray | 33,512 | 3.9 km | 40.7 | 16% | 44% |
| Shankill | 11,009 | 5.7 km | 42.2 | 18% | 45% |
| Cabinteely | 15,864 | 7.4 km | 38.9 | 16% | 45% |
| Killiney | 9,776 | 7.4 km | 42.5 | 19% | 48% |
| Stepaside | 22,796 | 7.7 km | 34.3 | 5.9% | 52% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Wicklow’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Wicklow’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 Enniskerry’s residents
What is the population of Enniskerry?
Enniskerry had 2,000 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Enniskerry?
The median age is 42.7. 22% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Enniskerry?
39% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (743 people), and 0.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Enniskerry?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 7.5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Enniskerry?
65% are Catholic, 23% have no religion and 12% another religion; 3.4% didn’t say.
Is Enniskerry good for families?
51% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Enniskerry are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Enniskerry?
Median gross household income in Enniskerry was €85,410 in 2022, against €64,080 across Co. Wicklow 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).