Top Ten Towns for Home Ownership

Posted on October 25th, 2007 in Annacotty,Celbridge,Census,Donabate,Dunboyne,Enniskerry,Housing,Ireland,Kill,Leixlip,Living in Ireland,Malahide,Portmarnock,Ratoath,Stamullen by census-analysis

Owner Occupiers
In Ireland just over 28% of all housing is rented – either from Private landlords or local Authorities. Seventy two percent of homes ore owned. This is similar to 2004 figures from the UK of 30% of rented dwellings. According to figures from the Irish 2006 census – for towns with populations over 1500 – the town in Ireland with the largest percentage of homeowners is Portmarnock.
Portmarnock has 80.34% of housing units occupied by the owner.Top Ten towns for percentage of Home ownership in Ireland:
Portmarnock 80.33 %
Malahide 78.05
Enniskerry 77.71
Leixlip 76.1
Celbridge 75.86
Dunboyne 75.49
Ratoath 74.78
Donabate 74.12
Annacotty 73.07
Stamullen 72.39

High Fertility in Ratoath

Posted on October 16th, 2007 in Ballina (North Tipperary),Carrigaline,Castlebridge,Children,Clogherhead,Donabate,Dunboyne,Dunshaughlin,Enfield,Enniskerry,Kinnegad,Prosperous,Rathangan,Ratoath,Tower by census-analysis

Most Children in Ratoath
Ratoath has the largest percentage of residents aged under 15 .
According to the most recent Irish census of 2006,   32% of the population of the town of Ratoath are aged 0 to 14. This is higher than any other town in Ireland with over 1500 residents.
All the following Irish  towns have over 25% of their population under 15 :  Donabate, Prosperous, Dunboyne, Sallins, Dunshaughlin, Tower, Stamullen, Ballina (North Tipperary), Kinnegad, Clogherhead, Enniskerry, Castlebridge, Rathangan, Carrigaline, Enfield. Many of these are in the Dublin commuter area.
The overall percentage of the population in Ireland aged under 15 is 20.39%.