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DONEGAL PEOPLE ARE most likely to remain living in the county of their birth, according to new data released from last year’s Census.
The finding is just one of a range of geographic and societal nuggets released by the Census today.
In a series of releases that focused on population distribution and movement, the Census also found almost two-thirds (62.7%) of people living in Ireland live in urban areas.
Of those who do live in an urban area, 44% are living in Dublin.
Drogheda remains the biggest town in Ireland with almost 41,000 people normally resident there. Just behind are Swords and Dundalk with under 40,000 people.
The figures also looked at how people move around the State and where they settle.
The Census found that Meath (65.1%) had the greatest proportion of residents who were born outside the county.
Counties within commuting distance of Dublin generally have larger proportion of people born outside the county, as the below map illustrates.
The darker green areas have a larger proportion of people born in outside counties.
Cork city and county has the lowest proportion of people living there who were from outside. Just 25% of people living in Cork city and county were born outside the county.
People from Donegal are the most likely to stay in their county with just 13% of people born there morally resident in another county.
Overall, 75% of Irish people live in the county of their birth.
Given Ireland’s large coastline, it’s also no surprise that a lot of Irish people live near the sea. In fact, 40% of Irish people are within 5km of the coast. Closer still are the 40,000 people who live within 100m of the sea.
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That’s cos we have our own Las Vegas here in the hills of Donegal …..
@Stephen Devlin: yeah but here in Dublin we have The Sam !
@gary mullen: Nice cushy Province to move out of that’s why.
@Stephen Devlin: Any Chicken Ranches?.
@gary mullen: There is no “the” in Sam! Back to the rugby for you lol
@Eugene Comaskey there was one raided there a fortnight ago alright, cash & 45 grand worth of receipts were recovered. Receipts in a chicken ranch like…Well i be damned
@Soccer T’s: Ever heard of the Sam Mc Quire.
@Just Me: Try again
@Soccer T’s: “Dublin for Sam” “we will win Sam” “Sams coming home” Any real GAA fan knows that it’s simply called Sam and not the Sam.
Could it be that Donegal people are more likely to move to Derry and Belfast, meaning they go missing from the census altogether?
@Chris Mansfield: and Scotland
@Chris Mansfield: obviously not taking into account all the holiday homes of people from Northern Ireland
@Mary Mary: Indeed, even a caravan is counted during the census as habitable as well as the people residing in them.
Won’t be long now before the entire country are eating coddle and talking like the cast out of fair city
Seeing as how there is no maternity hospital in Meath, combined with migration from Dublin into Meath as a more affordable commuter area, I’m not surprised at that figure. I would assume the 35% born in Meath are of an older demographic when there were maternity wards in Meath.
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: There is a maternity unit in Drogheda hospital, close enough to Meath….
@Chris Kirk: Yes, but it’s not in Meath. Therefore, although the newborns may be from Meath, they are recorded as born outside of the county but resident in Meath. That was the whole point of what I was saying.
How is dublin not dark green under the ” people born outside the county” map? It’s full of foreigners not to mention culchies
Drogheda is the biggest town? Very dismissive of Cork and Limerick!
@Gulliver Foyle: Town as opposed to city.
@Gerry Fitz: I think that was the dig Gerry
@Gulliver Foyle: Are Cork and Limerick not classed as cities. !!!
@Stephen Devlin: Doh!
@Gulliver Foyle: the Louth civil war between the pseudo nordies and the pseudo dubs
@Gulliver Foyle: Cork and Limerick are not classed as towns.
@Gulliver Foyle: I always thought Tallagh was the biggest town.
@Gulliver Foyle: limerick Galway and Waterford are also cities and bigger than Drogheda. It was down to the council status I think. Kilkenny is also a city for ceremonial purposes according to wiki.
What percentage of blow ins have blow outs while commuting to and from work?
In Cavan we have the Geopark – as old as the hills……
I’m a blow in.
@Gerry Fitz: That’s alright Gerry, just shower twice a day and it will soon wash off……
With all those blow ins – do you think that they might get a decent football team
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