# Census-2011 - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
About 1 per cent of the entire population of England and Wales speaks Polish – more than Punjabi or Urdu.
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# Census-2011 - Thursday 13 December, 2012
New Census figures show that the numbers in cars and on bikes is up, but mass transit options are less popular than before.
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# Census-2011 - Tuesday 11 December, 2012
Northern Irish figures show for the first time that the question of national identity cannot be directly related to religion.
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# Census-2011 - Friday 19 October, 2012
The vast majority of people in Ireland remain “white Irish”, who at 3,821,995 people represents 85.8 per cent of the population.
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# Census-2011 - Thursday 18 October, 2012
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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3.86 million people describe themselves as Catholic (84.2 per cent) while 277,237 people say that they have no religion.
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# Census-2011 - Wednesday 17 October, 2012
Easier to get €700 for nursing home care than €100 for carers in the home, says Carers Association
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# Census-2011 - Saturday 6 October, 2012
Which Irish county has the fewest same-sex civil partners? And how many times could Facebook fill Croke Park?
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# Census-2011 - Saturday 22 September, 2012
Plus – which Irish area has been keeping all the single people to itself? And how little confidence is ‘confidence’?
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# Census-2011 - Thursday 20 September, 2012
The latest release from the Central Statistics Office delves into how Ireland’s households and families have changed since 2006.
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# Census-2011 - Thursday 6 September, 2012
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
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New census data published today includes the first full detailed nationwide count of Ireland’s homeless population.
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# Census-2011 - Thursday 30 August, 2012
Almost half a million households rent their accommodation, according to the April 2011 Census.
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# Census-2011 - Tuesday 24 July, 2012
Ministers have agreed to table new laws enforcing cuts to the size of the Dáil, in line with independent recommendations.
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# Census-2011 - Thursday 21 June, 2012
The report of the Constituency Commission cuts the number of TDs, with significant boundary reforms.
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# Census-2011 - Tuesday 19 June, 2012
An ESRI analysis of the Census 2011 data suggests that more than one in ten men aged in their 20s have left Ireland.
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# Census-2011 - Saturday 26 May, 2012
The number of young adults in the country has fallen by 10 per cent, according to the results of Ireland’s latest Census.
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# Census-2011 - Friday 18 May, 2012
The government may decide to delay the next census, after the CSO suggested it could be considered for spending cutbacks.
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# Census-2011 - Thursday 3 May, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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The Public Accounts Committee asks for figures on how many people signed last year’s Census as ‘Jedi Knights’.
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# Census-2011 - Thursday 26 April, 2012
We already knew that there were 4,588,252 people living in Ireland last year – but the latest batch of CSO Census data means that now we literally know where you live.
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# Census-2011 - Saturday 31 March, 2012
How many of us are there in Ireland? How hot was it here last week? And how much is Will Ferrell’s next film going to make?
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# Census-2011 - Friday 30 March, 2012
Yes, we said sexy. And we said it about statistics.
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# Census-2011 - Thursday 29 March, 2012
Census 2011 found a clear urban-rural split between people using oil and natural gas to heat their homes.
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Altogether, there are 1.5 million single people living in Ireland.
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All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as any of the bits and pieces you may have missed.
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The majority of those came home from the UK, Australia and the US.
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Polish people have overtaken those from the UK as Ireland’s largest non-Irish group.
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The Census 2011 gives a fascinating snapshot into the life of Travellers in Ireland. It shows they are younger as a population, and are more likely to be married between the ages of 15 -24 than the rest of the population.
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New data shows the average number of children in an Irish family is today 1.38.
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The number of people who define themselves as being of no religion increased by 44 per cent since the 2006 census.
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In the latest census, people were asked if they were able to speak Irish and, if so, how frequently they did.
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Also in Census 2011 housing stats: The number of permanent housing units has increased by 13 per cent since 2006.
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Polish was by far the most common foreign language spoken in the home, followed by French, Lithuanian and German.
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Over one in five vacant properties were holiday homes, while the majority of the remainder were concentrated on rural areas in the west.
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Newly-released data shows number of divorced people in Ireland increased by more than 150 per cent between 2002 and 2011.
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Co Laois boasts the largest increase in population, while the highest growth of any constituency was recorded in Dublin North.
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Divorce is up, as is the number of people in rented property – here’s a snapshot of the nation on one night in April 2011.
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# Census-2011 - Thursday 30 June, 2011
The CSO has released the preliminary findings of April’s census – and they show Ireland’s population is edging towards five million.
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A Boundary Commission is set to redraw constituency lines and lead to a reduction in the number of TDs in the next Dail. But how many should we lose – if any at all?
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