More women than men living in Ireland? The Census has spoken
On the night of April 24th 2016, the population of the State was recorded at 4,757,976 – a 3.7 percent increase since the 2011 census.
With the first results of the census released today, results show an increase of 169,724 people over the past five years, with 978 males per 1,000 females.
It has been established that the nation’s fastest growing areas were the four administrative areas of Dublin, along with the commuter belt counties of Meath, Kildare and Laois and the cities of Cork and Galway.
In addition to this, the 27th census also indicates a 3% increase in the number of occupied households since 2011 while the number of vacant dwellings has fallen by almost 14%.
Records also show that net migration varied widely across Ireland, with a low of -6,731 in Donegal to a high of 7,257 in the capital.
“These preliminary results, published just 12 weeks after census day, are based on a clerical summary of each enumeration area compiled by the 4,663 enumerators,” explained Brendan Murphy, Statistician at the CSO.
“These counts were returned to the CSO in advance of the census forms themselves and the results published today are based on this information," he confirmed. "Scanning and processing of the two million actual census forms is well underway and the first definitive results are due to be published next March, within a year of census day."
The first census was carried out in 1821 and was conducted every ten years until 1946 before beginning a five-year pattern in 1951.
