The CSO have produced this interactive map where you can check the numbers of single people in each town around the country. According to the Census, there are 1,544,862 single people aged 15 and over, and they account for 41.1% of the population in Ireland.

How many single households are there in Ireland?

A total of 1,195,467 households (70.2%) contained families. A further 399,815 (23.5%) were one-person households. The remaining 107,007 (6.3%) were non-family households.

What percentage of the population is single 2019?

In the U.S., the number of people living without a spouse or partner rose to 42 percent last year, up from 39 percent a decade ago.

What is the average size of an Irish family?

The size of Irish households has steadily declined for years. The most recent census figures showed that household size rose slightly between 2011 and 2016, when it fractionally rose from an average of 2.73 to 2.75.

Why Irish households are not after all among the best off in the EU?

When the impact of prices is considered, Irish households no longer belong to the EU rich club. Incomes have risen steadily in Ireland in recent years – before Covid-19 hit – with some data showing Ireland as one of the EUs richest countries.

What is the biggest family in Ireland?

The Clarke family from Co Galway nabbed the Guinness World Record for the largest number of siblings to live to 100.

Why is Irelands PPP so high?

The main reason for the particularly high Irish GDP growth rates lies in the fact that in recent years, attracted in large part by low corporation tax rates, a number of large multinational corporations have relocated their economic activities, and more specifically their underlying intellectual property, to Ireland.