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Rural-Urban Population Change

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Rural-Urban Population Change
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Rural-Urban Population Change

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From the latest census in 2016, the total population change over the five years since April 2011 was 173,613, an increase of 3.8 per cent.

Of the 173,613 increase, 138,899 was in urban areas, or 80 per cent. The largest increase in rural population was in Cork County with an increase of 6,946, followed by Kildare, which saw its rural population increase by 4,025. There was a decline in the rural population in Sligo of 1,621, off-set by an urban increase of 1,763, which can be largely attributed to the re-classification of Collooney from rural to urban.