The population of every county in Republic of Ireland, as revealed by today’s Census figures

Has the population in your county gone up our down since 2011?

Republic of Ireland is certainly getting a little crowded as a whole, as Census 2016 results released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Thursday revealed that its population has increased by 3.8% (173,613) in the last five years. Part I of the summary results from the 2016 Census also revealed that the total number of non-Irish nationals fell slightly to 535,475 (11.6% of the population), the first decline since the introduction of this question in 2002. The number of people with dual-Irish nationality, meanwhile, has increased by 48,879 to 104,784 since April 2011. As well as detailing the overall change in the population since April 2011, Part I provides summary results on age profile, marital status, families, nationality, Irish language, foreign languages, religion and housing. The results all can be viewed in the full report on the CSO website, which also offers interactive web tables which allow users to search and download the data using a range of criteria including geographic area. Pics via cso.ie Speaking of geographic areas, you can check out the population of every county and the main cities in Republic of Ireland below and how they’ve changed in the last five years. Only Mayo and Donegal showed a decline in population in that period, with the steepest increases evident in Dublin and the surrounding counties and Cork.

The population of all counties and major cities in Ireland

Carlow

Population (Number): 56,932                                                                                  Actual change since previous census (Number): 2,320                             Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.2    

Dublin City

Population (Number): 554,554                                                                             Actual change since previous census (Number): 26,942                           Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.1                          

Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

Population (Number): 218,018                                                                                    Actual change since previous census (Number): 11,757                               Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.7                              

Fingal

Population (Number):  296,020                                                                                     Actual change since previous census (Number): 22,029                         Percentage change since previous census (%): 8.0%                      

South Dublin

Population (Number): 278,767                                                                                    Actual change since previous census (Number): 13,562                                 Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.1

Kildare

Population (Number): 222,504                                                                                    Actual change since previous census (Number): 12,192                                Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.8

Kilkenny

Population (Number): 99,232 Actual change since previous census (Number): 3,813 Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.0

Laois

Population (Number): 84,697 Actual change since previous census (Number): 4,138 Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.1

Longford

Population (Number): 40,873 Actual change since previous census (Number): 1,873 Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.8

Louth

Population (Number): 128,884 Actual change since previous census (Number): 5,987 Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.9

Meath

Population (Number): 195,044 Actual change since previous census (Number): 10,909 Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.9

Offaly

Population (Number): 77,961 Actual change since previous census (Number): 1,274 Percentage change since previous census (%): 1.7

Westmeath

Population (Number): 88,770 Actual change since previous census (Number): 2,606 Percentage change since previous census (%): 3.0

Wexford

Population (Number): 149,722 Actual change since previous census (Number): 4,402 Percentage change since previous census (%): 3.0

Wicklow

Population (Number): 142,425 Actual change since previous census (Number): 5,785 Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.2

Clare

Population (Number): 118,817 Actual change since previous census (Number): 1,621 Percentage change since previous census (%): 1.4

Cork City

Population (Number): 125,657 Actual change since previous census (Number): 6,427 Percentage change since previous census (%): 5.4

Cork County

Population (Number): 417,211

Actual change since previous census (Number): 17,409 Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.4

Kerry

Population (Number): 147,707 Actual change since previous census (Number): 2,205 Percentage change since previous census (%): 1.5

Limerick City and County

Population (Number): 194,899 Actual change since previous census (Number): 3,090 Percentage change since previous census (%): 1.6

Tipperary

Population (Number): 159,553 Actual change since previous census (Number): 799 Percentage change since previous census (%): 0.5

Waterford City and County

Population (Number): 116,176 Actual change since previous census (Number): 2,381 Percentage change since previous census (%): 2.1

Galway City

Population (Number): 78,668 Actual change since previous census (Number): 3,139 Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.2

Galway County

Population (Number): 179,390 Actual change since previous census (Number): 4,266 Percentage change since previous census (%): 2.4

Leitrim

Population (Number): 32,044 Actual change since previous census (Number): 246 Percentage change since previous census (%): 0.8

Mayo

Population (Number): 130,507 Actual change since previous census (Number): -131 Percentage change since previous census (%): -0.1

Roscommon

Population (Number): 64,544 Actual change since previous census (Number): 479 Percentage change since previous census (%): 0.7

Sligo

Population (Number): 65,535 Actual change since previous census (Number): 142 Percentage change since previous census (%): 0.2

Cavan

Population (Number): 76,176 Actual change since previous census (Number): 2,993 Percentage change since previous census (%): 4.1

Donegal

Population (Number): 159,192 Actual change since previous census (Number): -1,945 Percentage change since previous census (%): -1.2

Monaghan

Population (Number): 61,386 Actual change since previous census (Number): 903 Percentage change since previous census (%): 1.5