12% of Ireland’s population recorded as non Irish-citizens, census shows
Among cities, Dublin had the highest number of non-Irish citizenship residents followed by Galway . Photograph: Alan Betson
Some 12 per cent of Ireland’s population of 5.15 million were recorded as non Irish-citizens in April 2022. Of these, half were EU citizens and more than 83,000 came from the UK, a drop of 19 per cent on the 103,113 UK citizens living here in 2016. Dublin city had the highest number of non-Irish citizenship residents followed by Galway city with 19 per cent and Fingal at 17 per cent. Poles made up 28 per cent of non-Irish citizens in Carlow and 25 per cent in Laois, compared to just 6 per cent in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and Dublin city.
While only 1 per cent of the overall population identified as Black or Black Irish , this represented a 17 per cent increase from the 64,639 who made up this group in 2016.Some 20,115 people identified as Arab and 16,059 as Roma, both new editions to the ethnicity section of the census form along with Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi.
Travellers were on average younger than the general population at 27 years of age versus the national average age of 39 years. Just 5 per cent of Irish Travellers were aged 65 or older compared to 15 per cent of the general population in this age group. The census found 65 per cent of preschool aged children were registered as Roman Catholic, while 16 per cent had no religion and 3 per cent were Muslim. People aged 25-29 years were less likely to be Catholic and most likely to say they had “no religion”. However, this age-group also had the highest proportion of Hindus. Almost half of Indian citizens in Ireland were Hindu while 70 per cent of Polish citizens said they were Catholic.
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