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.
years or over was 110,562.
married, 3,377 were separated, 2,866 were divorced and 7,131 were widowed.
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.
address one year before the census.
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).
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.
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.