40 per cent of those who moved house in Leitrim own their new home

In Leitrim, 20% of households that moved in the last six years owned their new home with a loan or mortgage while 23% owned it without a loan or mortgage, a new report from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has revealed. Nationally, 23% moved to a new home which they owned with a loan or mortgage, while 11% moved to a new home which they owned without a loan or mortgage.

Households that moved in Leitrim were more likely to move to a detached house (52%) than movers nationally (23%). Just 15% of Leitrim household movers moved to a flat or apartment, compared to 34% who did so nationally.

These figures were part of the CSO's Census 2022 Profile 1 – Population Distribution and Movements which looks at the population changes nationally and in each county since Census 2016. Some of the topics covered include the population distribution in each county, the place of birth of residents of the State and each county (ie whether they were born within the county, elsewhere in Ireland or outside of Ireland) and population movements into, within, and out of each county. The CSO is also releasing Census 2022 information at Electoral Division (ED) level, providing more local detail on how the population is distributed across the country. 
Commenting on the results, Dr Tracy Clegg, Statistician in the Census Division, said: “Looking at Leitrim, we can see that Carrick-on-Shannon was the largest town, with a population of 4,743 in April 2022.”

Of those towns with a population of at least 500 people in April 2022, Leitrim was the youngest with an average age of 35.4 years. The oldest was Mohill, with an average age of 44.1 years. Nationally, the average age was 38.8 years.

Place of Birth
In April 2022, 41% of Leitrim’s usual residents (14,436 people) were born in the county. A further 39% (13,587) were born elsewhere in the State. The remaining 20% (6,840) were born outside the State, which was up from 18.3% in 2016. Nationally, 20% of the usually resident population in April 2022 was born outside of the State.

Of the people who were resident in Leitrim, 1,626 had moved in the year prior to Census 2022. Most of these (891 or 55%) moved elsewhere within the county. Nationally, 265,098 usual residents moved in the year to April 2022. Of these, 71% moved to a new home in the same county.