Meath population rockets by over 10,000 in five years

According to census figures released earlier today the State has grown by 3.7 per cent, or 169, 724 in five years with 10,087 from that overall figure coming from Meath.

Figures published by the Central Statistics Office on Thursday show the total population is now 4,757,976.

Population change varied widely from a high of over 8 per cent in Fingal to a low of -1.5 per cent in Donegal. Among the fastest growing counties were the four administrative areas of Dublin, along with the commuter belt counties of Meath, Kildare and Laois and the cities of Cork and Galway.

Net migration varied widely, from a low of -6,731 in Donegal to a high of 7,257 in Dublin city.

Dublin city, Cork city and the administrative area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown were the only areas to experience net inflows of population of any meaningful amount, the CSO said.

Laois, Longford and Kilkenny showed marginal increases.

The five cities of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford have all grown faster than their surrounding counties.

The make up of Meath’s population growth figures of 5.9% in total shows males accounted for 4,804 while females had jumped by 6,003.

Full CSO Figures here

http://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cpr/censusofpopulation2016-preliminaryresults/