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

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

Residence one year before census: Same address·Elsewhere in county·Elsewhere in 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: Outside Ireland, every local authority ranked
RankLocal authorityResidence one year before census: Outside Ireland
1Dublin City Council22,475
2Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council7,562
3Fingal County Council6,122
4Cork City Council5,407
5South Dublin County Council4,220
6Cork County Council4,049
7Limerick City And County Council3,424
8Kildare County Council3,188
9Galway City Council2,583
10Kerry County Council2,556
11Donegal County Council2,394
12Meath County Council2,189
13Galway County Council2,122
14Louth County Council1,917
15Mayo County Council1,810
16Wexford County Council1,724
17Wicklow County Council1,675
18Clare County Council1,672
19Tipperary County Council1,670
20Waterford City And County Council1,664
21Westmeath County Council1,280
22Kilkenny County Council1,057
23Cavan County Council1,007
24Roscommon County Council967
25Offaly County Council824
26Sligo County Council819
27Monaghan County Council774
28Laois County Council754
29Carlow County Council633
30Longford County Council500
31Leitrim County Council474

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: Outside 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-outside-ireland

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