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06th Apr 2017

The population of every county in Ireland, as revealed by today’s Census figures

Conor Heneghan

Has the population in your county gone up our down since 2011?

Ireland is certainly getting a little crowded as a whole, as Census 2016 results released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Thursday revealed that Ireland’s population has increased by 3.8% (173,613) in the last five years.

Part I of the summary results from the 2016 Census also revealed that the total number of non-Irish nationals fell slightly to 535,475 (11.6% of the population), the first decline since the introduction of this question in 2002.

Census

The number of people with dual-Irish nationality, meanwhile, has increased by 48,879 to 104,784 since April 2011.

As well as detailing the overall change in the population since April 2011, Part I provides summary results on age profile, marital status, families, nationality, Irish language, foreign languages, religion and housing.

The results all can be viewed in the full report on the CSO website, which also offers interactive web tables which allow users to search and download the data using a range of criteria including geographic area.

Census

Pics via cso.ie

Speaking of geographic areas, you can check out the population of every county and the main cities in Ireland below and how they’ve changed in the last five years.

Only Mayo and Donegal showed a decline in population in that period, with the steepest increases evident in Dublin and the surrounding counties and Cork.

The population of all counties and major cities in Ireland

Carlow

Population (Number): 56,932                                                                                 

Actual change since previous census (Number): 2,320                            

Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.2    

Dublin City

Population (Number): 554,554                                                                            

Actual change since previous census (Number): 26,942                          

Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.1                          

Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

Population (Number): 218,018                                                                                   

Actual change since previous census (Number): 11,757                              

Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.7                              

Fingal

Population (Number):  296,020                                                                                    

Actual change since previous census (Number): 22,029                        

Percentage change since previous census (%): 8.0%                      

South Dublin

Population (Number): 278,767                                                                                   

Actual change since previous census (Number): 13,562                                

Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.1

Kildare

Population (Number): 222,504                                                                                   

Actual change since previous census (Number): 12,192                               

Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.8

Kilkenny

Population (Number): 99,232

Actual change since previous census (Number): 3,813

Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.0

Laois

Population (Number): 84,697

Actual change since previous census (Number): 4,138

Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.1

Longford

Population (Number): 40,873

Actual change since previous census (Number): 1,873

Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.8

Louth

Population (Number): 128,884

Actual change since previous census (Number): 5,987

Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.9

Meath

Population (Number): 195,044

Actual change since previous census (Number): 10,909

Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.9

Offaly

Population (Number): 77,961

Actual change since previous census (Number): 1,274

Percentage change since previous census (%): 1.7

Westmeath

Population (Number): 88,770

Actual change since previous census (Number): 2,606

Percentage change since previous census (%): 3.0

Wexford

Population (Number): 149,722

Actual change since previous census (Number): 4,402

Percentage change since previous census (%): 3.0

Wicklow

Population (Number): 142,425

Actual change since previous census (Number): 5,785

Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.2

Clare

Population (Number): 118,817

Actual change since previous census (Number): 1,621

Percentage change since previous census (%): 1.4

Cork City

Population (Number): 125,657

Actual change since previous census (Number): 6,427

Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.4

Cork County

Population (Number): 417,211

Actual change since previous census (Number): 17,409

Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.4

Kerry

Population (Number): 147,707

Actual change since previous census (Number): 2,205

Percentage change since previous census (%): 1.5

Limerick City and County

Population (Number): 194,899

Actual change since previous census (Number): 3,090

Percentage change since previous census (%): 1.6

Tipperary

Population (Number): 159,553

Actual change since previous census (Number): 799

Percentage change since previous census (%): 0.5

Waterford City and County

Population (Number): 116,176

Actual change since previous census (Number): 2,381

Percentage change since previous census (%): 2.1

Galway City

Population (Number): 78,668

Actual change since previous census (Number): 3,139

Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.2

Galway County

Population (Number): 179,390

Actual change since previous census (Number): 4,266

Percentage change since previous census (%): 2.4

Leitrim

Population (Number): 32,044

Actual change since previous census (Number): 246

Percentage change since previous census (%): 0.8

Mayo

Population (Number): 130,507

Actual change since previous census (Number): -131

Percentage change since previous census (%): -0.1

Roscommon

Population (Number): 64,544

Actual change since previous census (Number): 479

Percentage change since previous census (%): 0.7

Sligo

Population (Number): 65,535

Actual change since previous census (Number): 142

Percentage change since previous census (%): 0.2

Cavan

Population (Number): 76,176

Actual change since previous census (Number): 2,993

Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.1

Donegal

Population (Number): 159,192

Actual change since previous census (Number): -1,945

Percentage change since previous census (%): -1.2

Monaghan

Population (Number): 61,386

Actual change since previous census (Number): 903

Percentage change since previous census (%): 1.5