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Residence one year before census: Same address for every Irish local authority, ranked from highest to lowest, from official public data.

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Residence one year before census: Same address — every local authority ranked

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These are raw counts, not rates -- a larger area ranks higher on this page mainly because it has more people, not necessarily a worse underlying rate.

Figures as of 2022, published by CSO Census of Population — Small Area Population Statistics (religion, ethnicity, travel to work, residence a year ago). Accessed 2026-09-21.

Usually resident population aged 1 and over by where they lived one year before Census Day, from Census 2016 and 2022 -- same address, elsewhere in the county, elsewhere in Ireland, or outside Ireland. County-level in-migration flow, distinct from CSO's national-only annual migration estimate.

Residence one year before census: Same address, every local authority ranked
RankLocal authorityResidence one year before census: Same address
1Dublin City Council509,509
2Cork County Council332,719
3Fingal County Council300,759
4South Dublin County Council276,697
5Kildare County Council225,002
6Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council203,434
7Meath County Council203,390
8Cork City Council199,007
9Limerick City And County Council191,605
10Galway County Council178,799
11Tipperary County Council156,406
12Donegal County Council154,785
13Wexford County Council151,430
14Wicklow County Council142,449
15Kerry County Council142,004
16Louth County Council128,716
17Mayo County Council126,647
18Clare County Council117,083
19Waterford City And County Council116,841
20Kilkenny County Council96,436
21Westmeath County Council88,639
22Laois County Council85,063
23Offaly County Council77,363
24Cavan County Council75,654
25Galway City Council70,625
26Roscommon County Council64,698
27Sligo County Council63,827
28Monaghan County Council60,832
29Carlow County Council57,002
30Longford County Council43,430
31Leitrim County Council32,142

Before you use these figures

  • 2016 and 2022 figures cover different areas: Cork City Council's boundary was extended in 2019, taking in a large area previously part of Cork County. This series' 2016 figure covers the smaller, pre-2019 city; its 2022 figure covers the larger, post-2019 city. The change between them reflects the boundary redraw, not a real change in the population it describes — not a trend to compare year over year.
  • Census years only, not a continuous series: This is CSO's actual Census of Population count, taken once every five years (2016, 2022 for this breakdown) — not a modelled annual estimate. No figure is published for any year in between, and this will not update again until the next census.
  • Latest figure: 2022 — 4 years old: This dataset is published annual and the publisher hasn't released anything newer. Nothing is missing from this page.

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Residence one year before census: Same address, every local authority ranked
Caveats: 2016 and 2022 figures cover different areas; Census years only, not a continuous series; Latest figure: 2022 — 4 years old
StatsMapped last confirmed these figures unchanged on 15 Sep 2026.
Source: CSO Census of Population — Small Area Population Statistics (religion, ethnicity, travel to work, residence a year ago)
https://statsmapped.com/ireland/rankings/census-migration

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