Number of families increases by 468 in Mayo - census
THE Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today published Profile 4 Households and Families, the latest of the eleven Census 2016 profile reports.Â
The report shows that there were 1,218,370 families in the State on Census Night, an increase of 3.3% since 2011. The number of children per family remained unchanged at 1.38 children since the 2011 census.
Deirdre Cullen, Senior Statistician: “This profile report on Households and Families examines the family situations and living arrangements of the Irish population in April 2016. It provides a wealth of information and analysis on topics such as marital status, same sex civil partnerships and the different types and sizes of family composition and householdsâ€.
Census 2016 recorded 33,628 families in County Mayo, an increase of 468 (1.4%) on the 2011 figure.
In April 2016, 37.4% of those aged 15 and over living in the county were single (38,872 people), which was below the percentage in the State overall (41.1%). A further 50,586 people (48.7%) were (first-time) married, compared to 46.0% nationally.
There were 1,693 remarried persons in the county. Males were much more likely to remarry after divorce, with 44.1% doing so, compared to just 31.9% of females.
The number of divorcees increased by 402 to 2,784, and accounted for 2.7% of those aged 15 and over. The 6,794 widowed persons comprised 6.5% of those aged above 15 years.
Same-sex civil partnerships
Census 2016 marked the first time that this relationship category was recorded in an Irish census, following the enactment of civil partnership legislation. There were 66 people in this category in County Mayo, and 4,226 in the State overall.
The number of people living alone increased by 633 to 13,676, i.e. 10.7% of all those living in private households. Of these, over 4 in 10 (5,967) were aged 65 and over, with women accounting for 56.3%.