Number of adults living with parents in Limerick rises
THE NUMBER of adults in Limerick living with their parents has increased by 9% since 2016.
This is according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), after releasing figures from its latest Census 2022 Profile 3 – Households, Families and Childcare.
The total number of adults living with their parents in April 2022 in Limerick was 20,702, or 13% of all those aged 18 and over in the county.
Almost one in seven (15%) of all adults in the Cappamore-Kilmallock Electoral Area were living with their parents in April 2022 which was the highest rate in the county.
Profile three looks at the family situations and living arrangements of the population and the different types and sizes of family composition and household, childcare arrangements are also detailed in the report.
Commenting on the results, Deirdre Lynch, Statistician in the Census Division, said: “Profile 3 shows us how our families and living arrangements are evolving and changing. It looks at changes in the numbers of families with and without children and the number of same-sex couples.
"The results show that the number of families has increased but the average number of children per family has fallen slightly, having remained unchanged in the previous two censuses.
"For the first time this profile also includes details of the numbers of children under 15 years of age in childcare as well as the types of childcare and the number of hours attended.”
Specifically looking at Limerick there are 50,143 families as of April 2022, up from 49,584 in 2016.
Limerick’s families included 22,239 married couples with children and 3,208 cohabiting couples with children.
A further 7,367 families with children were being brought up by single mothers and 1,444 by single fathers.
In Limerick, 12,568 (32%) of those aged under 15 were in childcare.
There were also 12,404 married couples without children and 3,391 cohabiting couples without children.
The number of same-sex couples in Limerick in April 2022 increased to 303 compared with 207 in 2016.
There were 31,872 people aged 65 and over living in the county in April 2022.