This article is from page 17 of the 2012-10-09 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 17 JPG
OVER ten per cent of Clare’s population are non-nationals, the latest report from the findings of the 2011 National Cenus of Population has revealed. The sixth bulletin report on the census, entitled ‘Migration and Diversity – A profile of diversity in Ireland’ has found that British and Poles make up the majority of the county’s non-national population.
The figures show that 12,076 nonIrish nationals were living in Clare at the time the census was taken in April 2011, a figure that accounts for 10.5 per cent of the total population of the county that stands at 117,196.
The report presents a profile of the non-Irish nationals living in Clare in April 2011, along with results on recent migration, foreign languages and ability to speak English.
“This report provides further analysis of the non-Irish population living in Clare at the time of the last census,” says Deirdre Cullen, a senior statistician at the Central Statistics Office.
“It examines aspects such as mixednationality households, age structure and marital status, numbers by towns, as well as new data on ability to speak English by year of arrival into Ireland. Clare has become an increasingly diverse society over the past decade and the different nationalities that make up the population of Ireland have an increasingly im- portant impact on the economy and society,” she adds.
The figures for Clare show that the county is running below the provincial and national average when it comes to non-national residents. The national average of the non-national population is 12 per cent, while in Munster it stands at 10.6 per cent.
Of the 12,076 non-nationals resident in the county, 3,622 were UK nationals – the largest non-Irish nationality in the county, followed by Polish nationals with 2,658 persons.
The census results show that of the 53,267 persons who arrived in Ireland in the year prior to April 2011, 1,010 were living in County Clare. Of these 627 or 62.1 per cent were non-Irish nationals.