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This profile is based on the Census Men in Clare are more likely to be at
of Population 2006 which took work and less likely to be
place in the Republic of Ireland on unemployed or students than men
26th April 2006. nationally (see Figure 9).
Glossary 3 The age profile in Clare is more volunteer than individuals nationally.
balanced than nationally with the Men in particular are more likely to
Demographics 4
share of 0 to 19 year olds and 20 to volunteer to sporting organisations
Families 8 (see Figure 13).
39 year olds in the population quite
Education 10 close together in contrast to the Households in Clare are less likely to
Employment 12 national situation (see Figure 2). have broadband Internet access
No liability is accepted to any person arising out of any reliance on the contents of this paper. Nothing herein constitutes professional advice of any kind. This document contains a general
summary of developments and is not complete or definitive. It has been prepared for distribution to Members to aid them in their Parliamentary duties. Authors are available to discuss the
contents of these papers with Members and their staff.
Introduction
This profile is based on Census 2006 Small Area Statistics data published online at www.cso.ie/census/SAPs.htm. The
census took place in the Republic of Ireland on 26th April 2006. The Oireachtas Library & Research Service (L&RS) used
this publicly available information to create profiles for the 43 constituencies used in the 2007 General Election. The
profiles cover: demographic characteristics; the make-up of households and families; ethnic diversity; nationality and
religion; education and employment profiles; and the state of the constituency's housing stock. The L&RS has also added
some electoral information for each constituency.
The variables used were selected from those available from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in order to provide a
reasonably detailed overview of the constituency. In calculating percentages, constituents who did not provide a response
were excluded (unless otherwise indicated). A copy of the census questionnaire is available on the CSO website. The
terminology used throughout this profile is, in general, the same as that used by the CSO. The census data does not
identify individual people; if certain variables could be used to identify people at the constituency level, this data is
combined into larger groups by the CSO to prevent such identification. Percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding.
A glossary of terms used by the CSO is provided at the beginning of the profile to give further information on selected
variables. This profile and profiles for the other 42 Dáil constituencies may be downloaded from the Oireachtas website
(www.oireachtas.ie) – they are accessible from the Dáil Éireann navigation menu.
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Glossary
VARIABLE DEFINITION
Private household A private household comprises either one person living alone or a group of people
(not necessarily related) living at the same address with common housekeeping
arrangements - that is, sharing at least one meal a day or sharing a living room or
sitting room.
Permanent private household This is a private household occupying a permanent dwelling such as a house, flat,
apartment or bedsitter.
Usually resident This includes people enumerated (counted) in the area of their usual residence,
together with other people usually resident in that area who were enumerated
elsewhere in the State. Usual residents of an area who were not in the State on
census night are not included in the figures.
Housing unit A housing unit is a conventional house, a structurally separate flat or apartment,
or a mobile or temporary dwelling, regardless of the number of private
households it contains.
Industry The 2006 Census uses the General Industrial Classification of Economic Activities
within the European Communities (NACE) to code industries. Whatever their
occupation, the industry in which a person is engaged is determined by the main
economic activity carried out in the local unit in which he or she works. The term
“industry” used for Census of Population purposes is not confined to
manufacturing industry. Instead, it refers to the “sector of economic activity”. In
the case of employees, industrial classification is based on the business or
profession of their employer and in the case of self-employed people, on the
nature of their own business or profession.
Occupation The occupation classification used in the census is based on the UK Standard
Occupational Classification, with modifications to reflect Irish labour market
conditions.
The data on industries and occupations is aggregated into a small number of broad level groups. Detailed lists of the industries
and occupations that make up these groups are on the Constituency Profiles page of the Oireachtas website.
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Demographics
Demographic breakdown
In 2006 2.5% of the Irish population lived in Clare. The constituency had a lower population growth between 2002 and
2006 than the country as a whole (see Table 1). There are more males than females in Clare, with 102.5 males for every
100 females - this compares to an almost-equal distribution nationally. More people in Clare speak Irish than in the country
as a whole.
State Clare
Marital Status
Above average marriage rate
People in Clare are more likely to be married than the national population (53.2% vs. 48.8%) and are almost equally likely
to be separated/divorced. Approximately 6.6% of adults in Clare are widowed (see Figure 1).
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Figure 1: Marital status of those aged 18 and over
State Clare
5.9% 6.6%
5.2% 5.1%
40.0% 35.1%
48.8% 53.2%
Age Profile
Fewer people in the 20-39 age range than the national average
The average age of the Clare population is 36.5 years. This is higher than the national average of 35.6 years. However,
compared to the national figures the age profile is more balanced in Clare. The share of the population aged 19 years or
under is slightly higher than the national average (28.0% vs. 27.2%) but there are much fewer people in the 20 to 39 age
groups (29.0% vs. 32.7%). This means that the gap between these 20 year cohorts is one percentage point in Clare
compared to 5.5 percentage points nationally. The share of the population above the age of 40 is higher in Clare than in the
State as a whole (see Figure 2).
State Clare
Age
10% 8% 6% 4% 2% 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10%
■ State ■ Clare
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Disability
Disability rates below the national average
In the 2006 Census 9,448 people in Clare indicated that they had a disability - or 8.9% of the population (see Figure 3). This
is slightly below the national average of 9.3%. Approximately 28.6% of those aged 65 and older in Clare have a disability.
Almost all age groups in Clare have a lower share of disabled people than the national average. This is especially true of
those aged 45 to 64 years old in Clare - 10.8% of them have a disability compared to 12.4% of 45 to 64-year olds nationally.
■ State ■ Clare
35%
29.5% 28.6%
30%
25%
20%
15%
12.4% 10.8%
10% 9.3% 8.9%
5.8% 5.3%
3.8% 3.9% 4.6% 4.5%
5%
0%
0-14 yrs 15-24 yrs 25-44 yrs 45-64 yrs 65 yrs & over All ages
There are 102,979 people who are usually resident in Clare with 88.6% identifying their nationality as Irish - close to the
national average. The proportion of UK nationals is 0.8 percentage points higher in Clare than nationally (see Table 2). In
addition, there are proportionally fewer Polish and Lithuanian nationals than in the State overall. In terms of ethnicity
Clare is quite similar to the rest of the State. However, it has proportionally fewer Asian or Asian Irish than nationally (0.7%
vs. 1.3%).
Non-EU / Not stated 4.5% 4.4% Other / Not stated 2.8% 3.2%
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Religion
Slightly more Catholics than the national average
Fewer people who have other stated religions than the national average
A slightly greater proportion of Clare people classify themselves as Catholics than in the State as a whole and people from
Clare are about as likely to define themselves as having no religion (see Figure 4). Clare people are less likely to state they
have another religion.1
State Clare
86.8% 88.3%
1 While the census overall gives a more detailed breakdown of different religions, the CSO does not publish a more detailed breakdown at constituency
level - as this may identify certain individuals or families.
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Families
Family cycle
There are 18,704 family units with children in Clare. Figure 5 shows the proportion of these families by family cycle based
on the age of the youngest child. In Clare 15.4% of families have children at pre-school level. The proportion of families
with adult children is smaller in Clare than in the State overall (34.1% vs. 36.4%). On the other hand, there are
proportionally more families with adolescents in Clare in than the State overall.
■ State ■ Clare
45%
40% 36.4%
34.1%
35%
30%
25%
10%
5%
0%
Pre-school Early school Pre-adolescent Adolescent Adult
Family size
More households with younger children than the national average
In Clare there are 11,757 families with at least one child under 15 years of age.2 This means that 32.3% of households
have families with children under 15 years compared to 31.4% of households nationally. Clare has fewer one child families
(27.7% vs. 29.9%) and more families with three children (23.6% vs. 22.2%) than the State overall (see Figure 6).
2 We present data (Figure 6) on families with younger children (i.e. those under 15 years old).The census also includes data on families with children
aged 15 years and older but these figures include adult children.
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Figure 6: Proportion of families with at least one child under 15 years,
by number of children
5 or more 3.4%
3.3%
children
8.6%
4 children 8.8%
22.2%
3 children 23.6%
36.0%
2 children 36.5%
29.9%
1 child 27.7%
■ State ■ Clare
Family type
Fewer single mother families than the national average
Figure 7 shows that in Clare there are fewer families with at least one child under 15 years old headed by a single mother;
15.1% compared to 19.7% nationally. Approximately the same percentage of families are headed by single fathers in Clare
as in the State as a whole (1.7% vs. 1.6%).
Figure 7: Single parent families and other families with at least one child under
15 years old
State Clare
1.6% 1.7%
19.7% 15.1%
78.7% 83.2%
■ Single father with children ■ Single mother with children ■ Couples with children
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Education
Women more likely to have finished their education later than the national average
Men in Clare are likely to have finished their education at around the same age as men in the rest of the country.
Approximately 48% of men completed their education at age 17 or below compared to 50% of men in the State as a
whole. Nationally 23% of men finished their education aged 21 or above compared to 21% of Clare men. Clare women are
less likely to have finished their education aged 15 years or under (15% vs. 19%) than women in the rest of the State. They
are as likely to have continued their education past the age of 20, with 24% of women completing education aged 21 or
above in Clare - the same as the national average (see Figure 8).
Figure 8: Males and females aged 15 and over by age education ceased
Male Female
100% 100%
75% 5% 5% 75% 5% 6%
5% 6%
7%
8%
17% 20%
19%
50% 50% 23%
12%
13%
13%
13%
15%
15% 13%
25% 25%
12%
9%
7% 7%
6%
14% 13% 12% 9%
0% 0%
State Clare State Clare
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Qualifications achieved
Proportionally more males with upper secondary and/or technical education than the national average
Women are less likely to have finished education at primary level or below than the national average
There are only minor differences between the qualification profile of the Clare population and the national population (see
Table 3). Men in Clare are slightly less likely to have finished education at primary level or below and slightly more likely
to have upper secondary and/or technical education. The education level comparison between females in Clare and
females nationally is similar. However, women in Clare are less likely to have finished education at primary level or below
and slightly more likely to have completed upper secondary and/or technical education than women nationally.
MALE FEMALE
Post-graduate or PhD 6% 5% 7% 7%
Not stated 5% 6% 5% 6%
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Employment
Economic status
Proportionally fewer women studying than the national average
Figure 9 shows that Clare women are about as likely to be at work as Irish women generally but are less likely to be
students (9.5% vs. 10.9%). They are more likely to be looking after the home/family (22.7% vs. 21.8%). Men in Clare are
more likely to be at work and less likely to be unemployed or be students than men nationally.
Male Female
1.0% 1.2%
100% 100%
4.2% 3.6%
10.9% 9.5%
66.0% 67.5%
0% 0%
State Clare State Clare
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Sector employed
Proportionally fewer employed are in commerce and trade than the national average
Proportionally more people are employed in agriculture, forestry and fishing than the national average
Proportionally more employed are in construction and manufacturing than the national average
The total number of people at work in Clare at the time of the census was 48,114. Females made up 41.1% of the Clare
workforce - below the national average of 42.6%. In 2006, 19.5% of workers in Clare were self employed; 3.5 percentage
points higher than the national average.
The largest sector in terms of employment, with 10,044 people employed, was the commerce and trade sector (see Table
4). This sector includes shops and wholesalers, financial institutions, real estate firms and other business activities.
However, workers in Clare are far less likely (by 6.2 percentage points) to be employed in the commerce and trade sector
than workers nationally. People in Clare are more likely to work in agriculture, forestry and fishing than is the case
nationally. They are also more likely than average to work in the construction and manufacturing sectors.
CLARE STATE
Occupation
Proportionally more agricultural workers than the national average
Proportionally more construction and manufacturing workers than the national average
Proportionally fewer professional, clerical, sales, and managerial and government workers than the national average
Clare has a higher than average share of its workers in agricultural occupations (6.6% vs. 4.5%). It also has a higher than
average share of workers in construction and manufacturing occupations, by 0.6 and 1.9 percentage points respectively
(see Figure 10). Its shares of professional, clerical, sales, and managerial and government workers are below the national
average.
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Figure 10: Occupations of those at work
People in Clare spend less time travelling to work or school than the national average. The average travel time in Clare is
approximately 22.6 minutes as opposed to 26.5 minutes nationally. Figure 11 shows that more people in Clare have short
commutes (less than 15 minutes) than the national average. In addition, fewer people in Clare have commutes lasting over
one and a half hours than the national average (1.3% vs. 2.7%).
Figure 11: People aged 5 and over by journey time to work, school or college
2.7%
Over 90 minutes 1.3%
6.4%
60-90 minutes 4.0%
6.1%
45-60 minutes 5.2%
16.6%
30-45 minutes 15.7%
30.5%
15-30 minutes 28.6%
37.7%
Under 15 minutes 45.2%
■ State ■ Clare
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Method of transport to work/school
Proportionally more commuters by car than the national average
People in Clare are much more likely to travel to work or school by car, either as a passenger or as a driver, and less likely
to travel by public transport or by foot than people nationally (see Figure 12). A total of 84.4% of permanent private
households own one or more cars in Clare, while the figure for the whole country is 80.3%. People in Clare are less likely
than average to cycle to work or school.
Figure 12: People aged 5 and over by means of travel to work, school or college
50%
45.0%
40.7%
40%
30%
20.6%
20% 15.8% 16.7%
13.1% 11.9% 12.1%
10.3%
10% 7.8%
2.0% 1.1% 2.6% 0.2%
0%
On foot Bicycle Bus, minibus Train, DART Car driver Car Other
or coach or LUAS passenger
■ State ■ Clare
Volunteering
Higher rate of volunteerism than the national average
Men are more likely to volunteer to sporting organisations than the national average
Women are more likely to volunteer to social and charitable and religious organisations than the national average
In Clare 15,590 people aged 15 years or over volunteer for at least one activity. People in Clare are more likely to
participate in a voluntary organisation than the national population. Nationally 16.4% of people volunteer in some way
but this figure is 18.8% in Clare. Figure 13 looks at the types of organisations to which individuals volunteer.3 Men in
Clare are more likely to volunteer to sporting organisations than the national average; and women to social and
charitable organisations and religious groups. Nationally 7.4% of men volunteer for sporting organisations but this figure
is 9.3% in Clare.
Figure 13: Share of those aged 15 and over participating in voluntary activity by
gender and nature of activity
Male Female
8% 7.4% 8% 7.6%
6.7% 6.6%
6% 5.1% 6% 5.1% 5.2%
4.7% 4.6%
4.2% 4.1%
3.4% 3.5% 3.7%
4% 4% 3.3%
1.6% 1.9%
2% 2% 1.2% 1.3%
0% 0%
Social or Religious Sporting Political or Any other Social or Religious Sporting Political or Any other
charitable group or cultural voluntary charitable group or cultural voluntary
church activity church activity
■ State ■ Clare
3 The percentage shares participating in various voluntary activities in Figure 13 do not add up to the overall share of the population aged 15 years or
over participating in voluntary activity as some individuals participate in more than one type of activity.
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Households and Housing
There are 36,431 private households in Clare with 101,341 people living in them. Households in Clare are more likely to
live in a house or bungalow (94.1%) than people elsewhere in the State (89.2%) and less likely to live in a flat/apartment
or bedsit (5.4% vs. 10.3%). Approximately 0.5% of households live in caravans. Overall the average household size is similar
in Clare and the State. Clare has an average of 2.78 people per household compared to an average of 2.81 people
nationally. However, Clare has slightly more one-person households and slightly fewer two and three-person households
(see Figure 14).
22.4% 23.4%
25%
9.3% 9.6%
10%
5% 3.7% 3.6%
1.0% 1.0% 0.5% 0.5%
0%
1 person 2 people 3 people 4 people 5 people 6 people 7 people 8 or more
people
■ State ■ Clare
Occupancy type
Householders more likely to own homes than the national average
A total of 36,249 households in Clare live in permanent private dwellings. People in Clare are more likely to live in owner-
occupied homes (79.4%) than people elsewhere in Ireland (74.7%). Households in Clare are more likely to own their houses
outright than the national average. A total of 39.4% of permanent private households own their homes outright in Clare
compared to 34.1% nationally. Within Clare slightly more owner occupiers hold mortgages on their homes4 than own their
homes outright (see Figure 15). Fewer householders rent in Clare than nationally.
4 Owner occupiers with mortgages include the ‘owner occupied with mortgage’ and ‘buying from local authority’ groups from Figure 15.
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Figure 15: Share of people in permanent private households by type of occupancy
50%
30%
20%
9.9%
10% 7.2% 7.8%
5.0% 3.5%
1.6% 2.9% 1.8% 3.2% 3.1%
1.3% 1.5%
0%
Owner Owner Buying from Rented from Rented from Private Occupied Not
occupied occupied no local local voluntary rented free of rent stated
with mortgage authority authority body
mortgage
■ State ■ Clare
The age of occupied houses in Clare reflects the age of houses generally in the country. The exceptions to this are pre-
1960 houses (see Figure 16). Clare has proportionally more pre-1919 housing stock than the national average (12.5% vs.
11.1%) but less housing built between 1919 and 1960 (14.2% vs. 17.9%).
25%
20%
17.9% 17.6%
15.2% 15.6%
15%
12.5% 11.9% 12.8% 11.9%
11.1% 11.1%
10.2%
10% 8.1% 8.4%
7.7% 7.3%
6.9% 6.7% 7.0%
5%
0%
Pre 1919 1919 to 1941 to 1961 to 1971 to 1981 to 1991 to 1996 to 2001 or
1940 1960 1970 1980 1990 1995 2000 later
■ State ■ Clare
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Type of water supply
More likely to source water privately than the national average
Figure 17 shows that Clare households are less likely to be attached to a public water supply (78.9% vs. 83.5%) and more
likely to obtain water through a private source (17.5% vs. 13.1%). Other census data (not shown) reveals that permanent
private households in Clare are less likely to have central heating than the rest of the State (88.3% vs. 90.4%).
State Clare
3.5% 3.6%
9.9% 11.0%
3.2%
6.5%
8.7%
18.2%
60.7%
74.8%
■ Public main ■ Group scheme with local authority source ■ Group scheme with private source
■ Other private source ■ None or not stated
Figure 18 shows that Clare households are much less likely to manage their waste water through a public scheme (48.2%
vs. 67.6%) and much more likely to have an individual septic tank (46.9%) than households nationally (29.5%).
No sewerage 0.3%
facility 0.7%
2.6%
Other
4.2%
29.5%
Individual
septic tank 46.9%
67.6%
Public scheme
48.2%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
■ State ■ Clare
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Access to a computer and the Internet
Less likely to have broadband than the national average
Households in Clare are close to the national average in terms of PC ownership (56.5% vs. 56.6%) and access to the
Internet (46.1% vs. 46.7%). However, this Internet access is much less likely to be via broadband; 13.4% of households in
Clare had broadband Internet access compared with 20% for the State as a whole in 2006.
40%
30%
20.0%
20%
13.4%
10%
0%
% with PC % with no Internet access % with broadband
■ State ■ Clare
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Voting and Turnout - Election 2007
A total of 79,555 people were registered to vote at the last election in Clare. The turnout was 56,770 people or 71.4% of
those registered to vote - above the national turnout (see Table 5). There appears to be more people on the register than
are eligible to vote. If we use census figures to estimate the number of people who were eligible to vote5 in 2007, we see
that there were 8.1% more people on the register than the estimate of the population eligible to vote. This is a problem
nationally with the electoral register but appears to be more acute in Clare.
State Clare
Clare returns four TDs to Dáil Éireann and in 2007 they were:
After the publication of the census a Constituency Commission was set up to review the boundaries of the constituencies
to be used in the next general election. No changes were recommended for Clare.
5 The estimate is the number of 17 year olds and above from the 2006 Census who hold Irish or UK nationality. This was estimated by using the share of
the population in the constituency who declared themselves as Irish or United Kingdom nationals. It does not account for migration or deaths between
the time of the census and the 2007 General Election. The “registered to vote” and the “turnout” figures are from the election results available on the
Oireachtas website.
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