http://www.towns-ireland.com Helping you choose which Irish Town to live in. Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:54:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.towns-ireland.com/disability-figures/ http://www.towns-ireland.com/disability-figures/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:34:43 +0000 census-analysis http://www.towns-ireland.com/disability-figures/ 9.3% of the population of Ireland stated that they had some type of disability in the 2006 Census.
The town with the highest percentage of people with a disability is Portrane – with 27.4% of the population. The presence of a fairly large hospital in a small town would easily raise the percentages. Portrane has a poulation of 1532 and 420 of those reported some level of disability.
Top ten towns in Ireland for high proportions of disability – (physical or mental):
Portrane 27.4%
Swinford 21.7%
Kilrush 17.8%
Castlerea 17.5%
Callan 15.3%
Tipperary 14.9%
Clones 14.8 %
Boyle 14.8 %
Ballinasloe 14.6%
Thomastown 14%The figures are from the 2006 census and are from all towns with population over 1500.

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