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A REPORT COMMISSIONED by Dublin City Council has highlighted the divide between the affluent and the disadvantaged in the city.
The report forms part of the consultation process for the Local Economic and Community Plan and is intended to provide the public with the information needed put forward their own ideas on developing the city.
It contains a number of charts that show the stark reality of a city divided, particularly in terms of wealth and education.
The map below shows most of the wealth in Dublin is concentrated on the south-east coast. The areas on the outskirts of the city marked in blue are the most disadvantaged.
Data on educational attainment also shows a much higher proportion of people in the north of the city did not go beyond second level education.
In some of the more disadvantaged areas, the proportion of people who left school after primary level is up to 40%.
The Dublin City Council administrative area has the highest proportion of unskilled workers. By contrast, as the long black line in the chart above shows, more than one quarter of the people living in the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area are either employers or managers.
Fianna Fáil councillor Paul McAuliffe, who is chair of the council’s enterprise and economic development committee, told TheJournal.ie he believes this report is a “reality check for policymakers”.
“It’s very clear Dublin is a divided city and these issues are not related to the economic crash – this is something that goes back over 200 years.”
The councillor said he believes social housing plans have been a huge contributing factor to what we can see in these maps, saying it is “clear it has had a generational knock-on effect”.
For him, the most worrying chart is the one below, which clearly shows the large proportion of 25 to 34 year olds living in the city.
“There’s that bulge coming through the system of 30 to 34 year olds. In the 80s there was a shortage of primary schools because of this group, in the 90s a shortage of third level places and in the noughties, a shortage of housing, and now childcare.
He is asking individual members of the public, as well as community and other interest groups, to take part in the consultation process and put forward “radical” ideas for change in Dublin city.
The deadline for submissions is the end of this month and more details on the plan and how to take part can be found here.
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Why is Bull Island on the Map. Very few residents but large area of map ? Unless they count the Birds
Classy birds
Great map. I’m on the borderline between disadvantaged and marginally affluent. Pretty much sums it up
This is called Geo-spatial inequality. We need to give the South Dublin liberals a taste of diversity. We should bus in skangers and Dindus to South Dublin schools right away.
You are indeed right plantation, diversity for all not just someone else.
worked for Cromwell eh PW
Fionnuala O’Carroll-Kelly would never let that happen.
What’s a Dindus?
South Dublin CC isn’t included on the map, but if you look at the way the southside looks, it’s split in half too. South-east Dublin is wealthier than south-west Dublin. So there’s a lot of southsiders well used to skangers.
Really difficult to identify the actual areas identified. Is there an overlay map showing streets or landmarks that could be used to see where the lines of demarcation area.
North of the liffey looks scary indeed John snow….
Same QTY of green & blue blocks as south of the liffey.
Since when are Blackrock and Blanch outside the city limits?
Blanchardstown is Fingal. Blackrock might be part of DLR but I would’ve thought otherwise.
Better still since when dose Dublin and suburbs stop inside of the M50.
The age profile chart is the standard distribution for a city. the bulge between 20 and 34 indicates rural and foreign population movement, primarily singles, into the city. The step reduction at 35 to 40 occurs when families leave the city for more suitable housing. The bulge is not a rolling population explosion.
Interesting… I was expecting it to be higher with the babyboomers. Immigration of young families and singles from abroad must also play into the equation.
It’s really not a very accurate picture with all the suburbs and commuter towns in greater Dublin included.
Any chance of a similar map of Malta?
Yawn. You sap.
Twenty quid says you couldn’t find Malta on a unlabeled map…
I’ll take that bet my friend. I don’t work for An Post who mixed up Crete with Cyprus.
Not like a DoB fan to resort to petty name-calling.
A tale of two cities . We all know what happened in that book. Glaring wealth inequality always leads to one thing eventually civil unrest . When the threshold of self control is broken due to the break down of self respect and human dignity. Everyone is fair game who will the first to be targeted the haves. If I was a wealthy individual in Dublin with no political enthusiasm I would be seriously thinking where is the soft fascist government taking us because hungry homeless pissed off over stressed overworked people at some stage will decide tho system suits only a few . Another five years of these institutionalised politicians and all hell is gona break loose its inevitable. If uve got nothing to loose why not sure. Again the moderates with wealth within society should really start reviewing where FG Labour and Fianna Gail have taken them. Their in the spotlight now and the lefties definitely didn’t put them there.
Yep, sure…Indeed… What’s for dinner??
To be honest, it’s not a great report when it only focuses on one of the four Dublin councils. At the end of the day, urban sprawl means that many parts of the three county councils are almost indistinguishable from parts of the city council, and the majority of Dubliners live in the county councils, so it only gives you half the picture really.
Where now?
All the below average areas in and around the the city center need to go away to the outskirts, so the city center is a junkie-free and skanger-free zone.
Looks like more of an eastside-westside divide than a northside-southside divide.
‘Marginally above average’ and ‘marginally below average’ ….. but where are the parts which are showing average?
they do know that map is dated 2012?!
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