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

Stradbally - Is this the Most Irish Town?

Posted on October 22nd, 2007 in Kill, Living in Ireland, Templemore by census-analysis

Stradbally in Laois has the highest percentage of Irish born residents in the country - according to census figures.
1004 out of 1053 residents were born in Ireland - 95.35% of the population.

These Irish towns have the highest percentage of Irish born - all of them more than 90%:
Kill, Kildare
Graiguenamanagh-Tinnahinch, Carlow/Kilkenny
Templemore, North Tipperary
Croom, Limerick
Fethard, South Tipperary
Portlaw, Waterford
Ardnacrusha (Castlebank), Clare
Ferbane, Offaly
Clara, Offaly

Central Heating Figures

Posted on October 16th, 2007 in Annacotty, Bantry, Kill, Leixlip, Lusk, Malahide, Portmarnock, Ratoath, Stamullen by census-analysis

Some of the housing in Irish towns is fairly old and basic. The census in 2006 asked people to indicate if their home had central heating - the results show that the town with the largest percentage of houses without central heating is Bantry in County Cork .
In Bantry 27.7% of homes do not have central heating installed - almost 3 times the average for Ireland.
Maybe the warmer weather in the South West means that people don’t need it. Skibereen has 26.7% of houses without central heating followed by Kilrush in Clare on 25.2%. Next is Clonakilty - also in Cork then Dingle and Dunmanway with 21.7%
The average for the whole of Ireland is just 9.31% of homes having no central heating.
The town with the largest proportion of it’s housing with central heating is Stamullen - where only 0.69% are lacking it.
The Top ten towns for having central heating are
1. Stamullen
2 Portmarnock
3 Annacotty
4 Ratoath
5 Newcastle
6 Malahide
7 Rathcoole
8 Leixlip
9 Kill
10 Lusk