This article is from page 16 of the 2012-09-25 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 16 JPG
AS REGARDS the majority in County Clare, it’s the women that hold sway over the men for the first time since the 1871 population returns, but the men are still in the majority in one department the latest bulletin report of the 2011 National Census of Population has revealed.
That’s when it comes to married v single folk. There are more singletons amongst men than there are amongst women. This statistic was among the latest set of facts and figures to be released by the Central Statistics Office on Thursday that have been taken from the census that was taken in April 2011.
The figures show that there are now 60, 565 single people living in the county, which represents just over 50 per cent of Clare’s record 110-year high of a 117,196 population. Of this figure, 31,716 are single men as they outnumber their opposite sex by just under 3,000 as there are 28,849 single women now in the county.
The number of females in Clare grew substantially in the five years between the 2006 and 2011 population returns, a growth that was reflected in the breakdown of female numbers growing by 4,098 as against male numbers growing by 2,298 in the same period.
The figures also show that there are now more single people living in the county than there are married, with the breakdown showing that there are nearly 25,000 more singletons in the county that there are married people.
The number for married people stands at 46,241, with the females in the slight majority with the census figures shows that there are 23,137 married women in the county as against 23, 104 men.
The breakdown of women and men in the county from the overall population of 117,196 is 58,898 females to 58,298 males.