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Drogheda – some census facts and figures

census-analysis — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:17:51 +0000

Some possibly interesting facts and figures about Drogheda from analysis of the IrelandCensus of 2006:

Population of Drogheda is 35090 which is 0.828% of the country.
Percentage in Work: 58.15
Unemployed %: 7.67
8.1% of the population are students and 5.01% are Unable to Work because of health
10.11% of people in Drogheda are retired.
Local Authority rented properties make up 8.53 % of dwellings in Drogheda
Rented Homes are 25.28% of all homes .
Homes in Owner Occuation 71.50%
% Owned outright 23.49
% Homes without Central Heating 6.01

Broadband uptake is above average with 22.55% of households having broadband installed in Drogheda.

Balbriggan has highest percentage of Africans

census-analysis — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:42:57 +0000

Africans in Ireland
Of all the towns with a population over 5000 – Balbriggan Co Dublin has the highest concentration of residents of African Ethnic origin. In Balbriggan 5.85% of the population recorded their ethnic origin as African in the 2006 census (890 people).
In all of Ireland there were 39734 people of African origin – that is 0.98% of the total population.
Other towns in Ireland (5000 plus population) where the percentage of Africans is over 3% :Longford 4.1%
Athy 4.02%
Lusk 3.64%
Ennis 3.61%
Dundalk 3.53%
Drogheda 3.25%
Navan 3.18%
Kilkenny 3.05%

According to the census returns there are only 3 Africans in the town of Dungarvan. (It is possible that people did not answer the question) – so this town has the lowest percentage of Africans in Ireland at 0.037.
The percentage of African residents is also low in Roscommon Town (2) , Newcastle West (4) and Tipperary Town (5)

Population Figures Ireland Census 2006

census-analysis — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:22:31 +0000

The total population of Ireland at the 2006 census was 4,239,848
Sixty one percent live in towns or cities (2,574,313) and thirty nine percent live in rural Ireland. (1,665,535)
1,045,769 people live in Greater Dublin – 24.7% of the population.These are the towns outside Dublin with population of more than 20,000Cork City 190384 (4.49%)
Limerick City 90757 (2.14%)
Galway City 72729 (1.72%)
Waterford City 49213 (1.16%)
Drogheda 35090 (0.83%)
Dundalk 35085 (0.83%)
Swords 33998 (0.8%)
Bray 31901 (0.75%)
Navan 24851 (0.59%)
Ennis 24253 (0.57%)
Tralee 22744 (0.54%)
Kilkenny 22179 (0.52%)
Carlow 20724 (0.49%)
Naas 20044 ( 0.47%)