More than 10% of population now classed as non-Irish

Over 10 per cent of the population in Ireland is classed as non-Irish citizens, according to information from last year's census. 

There were almost 632,000 non-Irish citizens living in Ireland in Census 2022, which was 12% of the population.

Almost 313,000, or nearly half, were citizens of European Union (EU) countries, and over 83,000 were UK citizens.

In the year preceding the census, over 89,500 people moved to Ireland.

Almost 10,000 of the people who moved to Ireland in the year preceding Census 2022 came from India while over 5,000 came from Brazil.

Just under 3.9 million or 77% of people identified their ethnic group or background as White Irish. 

The next largest ethnic group was Any Other White background at 10%, followed by Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi at 2%, and Black or Black Irish at 1%.

The number of usually resident Irish Travellers increased by 6% to 32,949. Looking at the overall population, 15% were aged 65 years and over compared with just 5% of Irish Travellers.

Over 736,000 people or 14% of the population living in Ireland reported they had no religion, an increase of 63% from Census 2016.