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

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Residence one year before census: Elsewhere in Ireland — every local authority ranked

Residence one year before census: Same address·Elsewhere in county·Outside Ireland

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: Elsewhere in Ireland, every local authority ranked
RankLocal authorityResidence one year before census: Elsewhere in Ireland
1Dublin City Council9,186
2Kildare County Council6,391
3Meath County Council5,107
4Wicklow County Council3,373
5Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council3,292
6Limerick City And County Council3,185
7Cork City Council3,148
8Galway City Council2,887
9Wexford County Council2,582
10Tipperary County Council2,355
11Cork County Council2,349
12South Dublin County Council2,297
13Fingal County Council2,134
14Waterford City And County Council2,115
15Clare County Council2,083
16Mayo County Council2,044
17Galway County Council1,961
18Kerry County Council1,936
19Laois County Council1,932
20Louth County Council1,920
21Kilkenny County Council1,753
22Westmeath County Council1,748
23Sligo County Council1,614
24Roscommon County Council1,565
25Donegal County Council1,498
26Offaly County Council1,404
27Cavan County Council1,334
28Carlow County Council1,242
29Leitrim County Council859
30Longford County Council733
31Monaghan County Council656

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: Elsewhere in Ireland, 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?facet=migration-elsewhere-ireland

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