Census Night Is Coming, Here’s A Reminder Of Some Kerry Results From 2011

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 Pictured at the launch of Census 2016 are (l-r) were Dorothea Findlater, Blackrock, who is 106 years’ old and has been counted in 18 censuses and Teresa Moran, Raheny, who is age 100 and has been counted in 17 censuses. The census will take place on Sunday, 24 April. Picture Conor McCabe Photography. MEDIA CONTACT : Paula Curtin, MKC Communications, T. 01 703 8612 M. 087 4109910 E. paula@mkc.ie

Pictured at the launch of Census 2016 were Dorothea Findlater, Blackrock, who is 106 years’ old and has been counted in 18 censuses and Teresa Moran, Raheny, who is age 100 and has been counted in 17 censuses. The census will take place on Sunday, 24 April. Picture Conor McCabe Photography.

THE Central Statistics Office officially launched Census 2016 this week, with the Census due to take place on Sunday, April 24, giving the people of Kerry the chance to make their mark on the future.

This will be the 27th Census to have taken place in Ireland, with the last Census taking place on April 11, 2011, revealing the population of Ireland on that night to be 4,588,252 persons. The first results will be published about twelve weeks after the Census night.

One wonders will there be much difference from that previous census in 2011. Here’s a reminder of  the results that threw up:

AGE/SEX

• In April 2011 Kerry had a population of 145,502, consisting of 72,629 males and
72,873 females.

• The population of pre-school age (0-4) was 10,025, of primary school going age (5-
12) was 15,326 and of secondary school going age (13-18) was 11,177.

• There were 20,988 persons aged 65 years and over. The number of persons aged 18
years or over was 110,562.
MARITAL STATUS
• Of the 116,150 persons aged 15 years and over, 44,862 were single, 57,914 were
married, 3,377 were separated, 2,866 were divorced and 7,131 were widowed.
LIVING ARRANGEMENTS
• There were 53,306 private households in Kerry in April 2011, of which 14,038  were
single person households. Of the 37,248 families in the area, 11,153 were couples
with no children. The average number of children per family was 1.4 compared with
1.4 nationally.
MIGRATION AND NATIONALITIES
• 94.4 per cent of the usually resident population aged over 1 lived at the same
address one year before the census.
• A further 3.6 per cent lived elsewhere in the same county, 1.1 per cent lived elsewhere in the State while 0.9 per cent lived outside the State twelve months before the census on April 10, 2011.
• Non-Irish nationals accounted for 11.2 per cent of the population of Kerry compared
with a national average figure of 12.0 per cent. UK nationals (5,191 persons) were
the largest group, followed by Polish (4,048 persons).
LANGUAGES
• 64,105 persons could speak the Irish language and of these 21,792 spoke the
language daily. 13,109 persons spoke a language other than Irish or English at
home and of these 2,507 could not speak English well or at all. Polish was the most
common foreign language spoken at home with 3,942 speakers.
RELIGION
• There were 127,637 Roman Catholics in the area at census time. A further 9,075
were adherents of other stated religions (e.g. Church of Ireland, Islam, Presbyterian,
Orthodox), while 6,884 persons indicated that they had no religion.

 

For those whose first language is not Irish or English, a translation of the census form is available in 21 different foreign languages.

Other resources which are available to assist people with filling out the census form include large print, Braille and audio versions of the census form and a video step-by-step guide to completing the census form.

All of these resources and much more information about the census are available on the census website at www.census.ie.

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