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Settlement Swords (CSO Area Code ST 04014)

Theme 1: Sex, age and marital status

Population aged 0-19 by sex and year of age, persons aged 20+ by sex and age group
Age	Male	Female	Total
0	368	345	713
1	425	353	778
2	379	339	718
3	336	325	661
4	326	270	596
5	273	274	547
6	277	267	544
7	278	278	556
8	289	267	556
9	238	238	476
10	214	254	468
11	226	229	455
12	269	215	484
13	239	228	467
14	252	220	472
15	256	211	467
16	228	218	446
17	241	214	455
18	211	200	411
19	219	225	444
20-24	1,238	1,306	2,544
25-29	1,744	1,940	3,684
30-34	2,147	2,158	4,305
35-39	1,767	1,770	3,537
40-44	1,449	1,474	2,923
45-49	1,224	1,358	2,582
50-54	987	1,039	2,026
55-59	713	786	1,499
60-64	562	610	1,172
65-69	407	424	831
70-74	247	224	471
75-79	117	188	305
80-84	57	108	165
85+	42	124	166
Total	18,245	18,679	36,924

Population by sex and marital status
Status	Males	Females
Single	10,552	10,118
Married	6,783	6,749
Separated	382	593
Divorced	350	566
Widowed	178	653
Total	18,245	18,679

Theme 2: Migration and ethnicity

Usually resident population by place of birth and nationality
Location	Birthplace	Nationality
Ireland	27,574	28,403
UK	1,624	608
Poland	1,910	2,012
Lithuania	553	580
Other EU 27	2,578	2,606
Rest of World	2,357	1,920
Not stated	0	467
Total	36,596	36,596

Usually resident population by ethnic or cultural background
White Irish	27,101
White Irish Traveller	73
Other White	6,161
Black or Black Irish	1,005
Asian or Asian Irish	1,045
Other	408
Not stated	803
Total	36,596

Usually resident population aged 1 and over by usual residence 1 year before Census Day
Same Address	32,795
Elsewhere in County	2,229
Elsewhere in Ireland	256
Outside Ireland	603
Total	35,883

Population by religion
Catholic	29,369
Other stated religion	4,089
No religion	2,607
Not stated	859
Total	36,924

Speakers of foreign languages by language spoken
Language	Persons
Polish	1,943
French	545
Lithuanian	467
Other	4,827
Total	7,782

Speakers of foreign languages by ability to speak English
Ability	Persons
Very well	3,369
Well	2,685
Not well	1,204
Not at all	254
Not stated	270
Total	7,782

Theme 3: Irish language

Population aged 3 or over by ability to speak Irish
Ability	Persons
Yes	12,190
No	21,679
Not stated	846
Total	34,715

Irish speakers aged 3 or over by frequency of speaking Irish
Speaks Irish Daily, within education system only	3,925
Speaks Irish Daily, within and also outside education system	294
Outside education system, Daily	303
Outside education system, Weekly	614
Outside education system, Less often	3,666
Outside education system, Never	3,304
Outside education system, Not stated	84
Total	12,190

Irish speakers within education aged 3+, by frequency of speaking Irish outside education
Frequency	Persons	Males	Females
Daily	168	57	111
Weekly	50	22	28
Less often	33	13	20
Never	43	16	27
Total	294	108	186

Theme 4: Families

Families, family members and children in families, by size of family
Size of family	Number of families	Number of persons in families	Number of children in families
2 persons	3,655	7,310	968
3 persons	2,520	7,560	3,025
4 persons	2,340	9,360	4,880
5 persons	1,002	5,010	3,054
6 or more persons	311	1,934	1,324
Total	9,828	31,174	13,251

Family units with children by size and age of children
	All children under 15	All children 15 or over	Children both under and over 15	Total
No children	0	0	0	2,687
1 child	1,748	1,235	0	2,983
2 children	1,493	757	395	2,645
3 children	526	206	422	1,154
4 children	121	44	127	292
5 or more children	20	6	41	67

Family units with children by type of family and age of children
	Couples with children	Lone mothers with children	Lone fathers with children
Number of families
All children aged under fifteen	3,068	795	45
All children aged over fifteen	1,543	576	129
Other	797	172	16
Total number of family units	5,408	1,543	190

Number of children
All children aged under fifteen	5,600	1,234	64
All children aged over fifteen	2,564	832	177
Other	2,254	487	39
Total number of family units	10,418	2,553	280

Families by age of youngest child
	Number of families	Number of family members
0-4 years	2,687	9,894
5-9 years	1,250	4,818
10-14 years	956	3,724
15-19 years	868	3,146
20+ years	1,380	4,218
Total	7,141	25,800

Families by family cycle
Family cycle	Number of families	Number of family members
Pre-family	1,556	3,112
Empty nest	746	1,492
Retired	385	770
Pre-school	1,591	4,987
Early school	1,239	4,609
Pre-Adolescent	1,078	4,278
Adolescent	1,149	4,519
Adult	2,084	7,407
Total	9,828	31,174

Females aged 20 years or over by number of children born alive
Number of children born	Number of females
0	4,520
1	2,238
2	2,997
3	1,837
4 or more	1,409
Total	13,001

Theme 5: Private Households

Private households by type
Type of Household	Households	Persons
One person	2,028	2,028
Husband and wife	1,503	3,006
Cohabiting couple	742	1,484
Husband, wife and children	4,398	17,577
Cohabiting couple and children	531	1,936
Father and children	151	379
Mother and children	1,245	3,395
Couple and others	304	1,083
Couple, children and others	324	1,610
Father, children and others	28	105
Mother, children and others	140	517
Two or more family units	228	1,266
Non-family households and relations	314	793
Two or more non-related persons	630	1,737
Total	12,566	36,916

Private households by size
Size of family	Households	Persons
1 person	2,028	2,028
2 persons	3,504	7,008
3 persons	2,709	8,127
4 persons	2,567	10,268
5 persons	1,255	6,275
6 persons	373	2,238
7 persons	86	602
8 or more persons	44	370
Total	12,566	36,916

Theme 6: Housing

Private households by type of accommodation
Type of accommodation	Households	Persons
House/Bungalow	10,417	31,909
Flat/Apartment	1,864	4,177
Bed-sit	13	33
Caravan/Mobile Home	7	18
Not stated	265	779
Total	12,566	36,916

Permanent private households by year built
Year Built	Households	Persons
Pre 1919	48	120
1919 to 1945	69	179
1946 to 1960	200	502
1961 to 1970	736	1,962
1971 to 1980	1,878	5,387
1981 to 1990	1,955	6,068
1991 to 2000	2,692	8,659
2001 to 2005	3,311	9,242
2006 or later	877	2,246
Not stated	793	2,533
Total	12,559	36,898

Permanent private households by type of occupancy
Type of occupancy	Households	Persons
Owner occupied with mortgage	6,206	19,110
Owner occupied no mortgage	2,459	6,140
Rented from Private Landlord	3,002	9,158
Rented from Local Authority	545	1,618
Rented from Voluntary Body	107	303
Occupied free of rent	58	102
Not stated	182	467
Total	12,559	36,898

Permanent private households by number of rooms
Number of rooms	Households	Persons
1 room	116	221
2 rooms	725	1,577
3 rooms	1,356	3,730
4 rooms	1,513	3,711
5 rooms	3,498	9,935
6 rooms	2,320	7,351
7 rooms	1,652	5,601
8 or more rooms	920	3,549
Not stated	459	1,223
Total	12,559	36,898

Permanent private households by central heating
No central heating	51
Oil	1,854
Natural Gas	9,601
Electricity	763
Coal (including anthracite)	69
Peat (including turf)	7
Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG)	19
Wood (including wood pellets)	6
Other	14
Not stated	175
Total	12,559

Permanent private households by water supply
Public main	11,531
Group scheme with local authority source	548
Group scheme with private source	13
Other private source	9
None	0
Not stated	458
Total	12,559

Permanent private households by sewerage facility
Public scheme	11,746
Individual septic tank	119
Other individual treatment	19
Other	44
No sewerage facility	9
Not stated	622
Total	12,559

Occupancy status of permanent dwellings on Census night
Occupied	12,575
Unoccupied	869
Total	13,444

Theme 7: Communal Establishments

Persons in Communal Establishments
Number of establishments	16
Number of persons	481

Theme 8: Principal Status

Population aged 15 years and over by principal economic status and sex
Principal Economic Status	Male	Female	Total
At work	9,245	8,547	17,792
Looking for first regular job	142	130	272
Unemployed having lost or given up previous job	1,621	1,083	2,704
Student	1,409	1,373	2,782
Looking after home/family	92	1,952	2,044
Retired	984	884	1,868
Unable to work due to permanent sickness or disability	350	572	922
Other	13	36	49
Total	13,856	14,577	28,433

Theme 9: Socio Class and Socio-Economic Group

Population by sex and social class
Social Class	Male	Female	Total
Professional workers	1,123	951	2,074
Managerial and technical	5,156	5,532	10,688
Non-manual	3,023	4,942	7,965
Skilled manual	3,792	2,011	5,803
Semi-skilled	2,229	1,872	4,101
Unskilled	644	589	1,233
All others gainfully occupied and unknown	2,278	2,782	5,060
Total	18,245	18,679	36,924

Persons in private households by socio-economic group of reference person
Socio-economic group of reference person	Households	Persons
A Employers and managers	2,279	6,860
B Higher professional	702	1,920
C Lower professional	1,458	3,944
D Non-manual	3,131	8,930
E Manual skilled	1,153	3,656
F Semi-skilled	1,071	3,409
G Unskilled	387	1,209
H Own account workers	699	2,305
I Farmers	22	74
J Agricultural workers	45	157
Z All others gainfully occupied and unknown	1,619	4,452
Total	12,566	36,916

Theme 10: Education

Population aged 15 years and over by age education ceased
Age	Males	Females	Total
Under 15 years	437	459	896
15	520	389	909
16	975	817	1,792
17	1,108	1,225	2,333
18	1,575	1,701	3,276
19	485	684	1,169
20	499	549	1,048
21 and over	2,400	2,564	4,964
Not stated	3,358	3,710	7,068
Total	11,357	12,098	23,455

Population aged 15 years and over whose education has not ceased
Education	Males	Females	Total
Still at school	1,409	1,373	2,782
Other	1,090	1,106	2,196

Population aged 15 years and over by field of study
Qualification	Males	Females	Total
Education and teacher training	155	601	756
Arts	238	243	481
Humanities	140	277	417
Social sciences, Business and Law	1,530	2,582	4,112
Science, Mathematics and Computing	737	479	1,216
Engineering, Manufacturing and Construction	2,181	227	2,408
Agriculture and Veterinary	102	67	169
Health and Welfare	227	1,084	1,311
Services	626	867	1,493
Other subjects	10	18	28
Not Stated (including unknown)	5,411	5,653	11,064
Total	11,357	12,098	23,455

Population aged 15 years and over by sex and highest level of education completed
Education Level	Males	Females	Total
No Formal Education	89	81	170
Primary Education	831	972	1,803
Lower Secondary	1,725	1,665	3,390
Upper Secondary	2,630	3,081	5,711
Technical or Vocational qualification	1,193	1,322	2,515
Advanced Certificate/Completed Apprenticeship	1,095	486	1,581
Higher Certificate	584	680	1,264
Ordinary Bachelor Degree or National Diploma	938	1,047	1,985
Honours Bachelor Degree, Professional qualification or both	1,016	1,187	2,203
Postgraduate Diploma or Degree	673	967	1,640
Doctorate(Ph.D) or higher	49	54	103
Not stated	534	556	1,090
Total	11,357	12,098	23,455

Theme 11: Commuting

Population aged 5 years and over by means of travel to work, school or college
On foot	4,331
Bicycle	448
Bus, minibus or coach	4,047
Train, DART or LUAS	253
Motorcycle or scooter	153
Car driver	10,778
Car passenger	3,554
Van	699
Other	340
Not stated	752
Total	25,355

Population aged 5 years and over by time leaving home to travel to work, school or college
Before 06:30	2,424
06:30-07:00	1,893
07:01-07:30	2,496
07:31-08:00	3,740
08:01-08:30	5,279
08:31-09:00	5,095
09:01-09:30	883
After 09:30	2,262
Not stated	995
Total	25,067

Population aged 5 years and over by journey time to work, school or college
Under 15 mins	7,133
1/4 hour - under 1/2 hour	7,627
1/2 hour - under 3/4 hour	4,611
3/4 hour - under 1 hour	1,841
1 hour - under 1 1/2 hours	1,928
1 1/2 hours and over	494
Not stated	1,433
Total	25,067

Theme 12: Disability, carers and general health

Persons with disability by age group
00-14	452
15-24	328
25-44	1,003
45-64	1,093
65+	714
Total	3,590

Carers by sex and number of unpaid hours per week
Number of hours	Males	Females
'1-14	220	327
'15-28	46	111
'29-42	32	50
'43+	64	146
'Not stated	58	88
'Total	420	722

Population by general health and sex
Health	Males	Females	Total
Very good	11,530	11,614	23,144
Good	5,062	5,278	10,340
Fair	940	1,124	2,064
Bad	127	167	294
Very bad	36	32	68
Not stated	550	464	1,014
Total	18,245	18,679	36,924

Theme 13: Occupation

Persons at work or unemployed by occupation and sex
Occupation	Males	Females	Total
Managers, Directors and Senior Officials	1,048	616	1,664
Professional Occupations	1,133	1,446	2,579
Associate Professional and Technical Occupations	1,481	957	2,438
Administrative and Secretarial Occupations	593	1,940	2,533
Skilled Trades Occupations	1,890	169	2,059
Caring, Leisure and Other Service Occupations	311	1,176	1,487
Sales and Customer Service Occupations	687	1,319	2,006
Process, Plant and Machine Operatives	1,413	250	1,663
Elementary Occupations	1,397	953	2,350
Not stated	913	804	1,717
Total	10,866	9,630	20,496

Theme 14: Industries

Persons at work by industry and sex
Industry	Males	Females
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	80	36
Building and construction	556	53
Manufacturing industries	917	443
Commerce and trade	2,414	2,567
Transport and communications	2,052	961
Public administration	627	525
Professional services	1,189	2,588
Other	1,410	1,374
Total	9,245	8,547

Theme 15: PC and Internet Access

Number of households with cars
No motor car	1,591
One motor car	5,426
Two motor cars	4,718
Three motor cars	679
Four or more motor cars	145

Number of households with a personal computer
Yes	10,730
No	1,550
Not stated	279
Total	12,559

Number of households with internet access
Broadband	10,192
Other	614
No	1,460
Not stated	293
Total	12,559

Contact Census Enquiries : Tel: 353-1-8951460 | e-mail: census@cso.ie
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