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14/07/2016
CSO Ireland: Census of Population 2016 Preliminary Results

The Central Statistics Office publication, “Census of Population 2016 Preliminary Results ”, presents the results of the preliminary count of the population from the census which was held on 24th April 2016.
It shows that the preliminary total of the population was 4,757,976 persons. This compares with 4,588,252 persons in April 2011, an increase of 169,724 persons since 2011 or 3.7 per cent.
This publication also contains first results on housing and vacant dwellings and show the number of occupied houses has increased by 47,285 since April 2011 while the number of vacant dwellings
has fallen by 29,889. The data in this report is based on local summary counts compiled by 4,663 enumerators.
Each enumerator summarised the total number of persons, males and females in each household onto the front of the census form and then prepared overall summary totals for their area.

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