Louth had 912 deaths according to CSO
Latest Births and Deaths at Local Electoral Areas 2021 report from the CSO
There were 912 deaths and 1678 births in Louth in 2021 according to the latest Births and Deaths at Local Electoral Areas 2021 report from the CSO.
The stats show that there were 223 deaths in Dundalk Carlingford and 190 in Dundalk South. Meanwhile there were 194 deaths in Ardee, 88 in Drogheda Rural and 217 in Drogheda Urban.
When it comes to births, there were 327 in Dundalk Carlingford and 495 in Dundalk South. Meanwhile there were 266 births in Ardee, 222 in Drogheda Rural and 368 in Drogheda Urban.
Commenting on the Frontier publication national statistics, Seán O’Connor, Statistician in the Life Events and Demography Division, said:
"Today’s release, which is part of the CSO Frontier Series provides information and evidence on life events (births and deaths) at Local Electoral Area (LEA). It is the second publication in the series which examines life events at a local level. The first of these publications looked at Deaths and Cause of Death at Local Electoral Areas (LEA) 2021.
Care must be taken when interpreting the statistics in this release as Frontier Series releases may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete. The population utilised to calculate rates and present average age at LEAs for 2021 is taken from the Irish Population Estimates from Administrative Data Sources (IPEADS). IPEADS is an experimental and evolving platform for the development of population estimates.
It must also be emphasised that as an experimental methodology, IPEADS estimates must be interpreted with caution and are not comparable with official CSO population estimates such as Census data.
Looking at the data, of the 34,844 deaths which occurred in 2021, some areas within Dublin City had the highest number of deaths. Clontarf, Dublin City (528), Ballymun-Finglas, Dublin City (502), and Artane-Whitehall, Dublin City (499) were the LEAs with the highest number of deaths occurring in 2021.
In contrast, Leixlip, Co Kildare (65), Ballinamore, Co Leitrim (76), and Granard, Co Longford (80) recorded the lowest.
Similary for births, many of the 60,575 births which occurred in 2021 occurred in and around Dublin. North Inner City, Dublin City (755), Howth-Malahide, Fingal (732), and Swords, Fingal (727) were the LEAs with the highest number of births. Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim (104), Belmullet, Co. Mayo (112), and Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim (117) had the lowest number of births.