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12,000 Donegal people live alone
01.12.11
New website crunches
key county statistics
by Linda McGrory
SOME 28,000 people in Co Donegal have no formal or
primary education while just 4% of people here can
claim to be in the top socio-economic class, new
statistics reveal.
The figures are contained in a new website called
DecisionMap
which is aimed at
providing data to help government bodies, businesses
and the public make better decisions when future
planning.
The website is a collaboration between Ordnance
Survey of Ireland and the company Twelve Horses. It
is a handy one-stop-shop with statistics from bodies
such as the Central Statistics Office and the All
Island Research Observatory.
The total population of Donegal now stands at
147,264, according to DecisionMap.
We have almost the same amount of males and females
- 73,970 and 73,294, respectively.
A breakdown of ages shows that in the 15-24 category
we have 20,575 people; 24-44 years (41,457); 45-65
years (33,395) and 65+ (18,411).
There are a total of 11,816 one-person households;
5,758 one parent families; 19,100 households with a
couple and one child and 8,748 one couple
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When it comes to
motoring, 9,049 Donegal households have no car;
21,269 households have one car; 15,514 households
have two cars while 4,161 homes have access to three
cars.
The website also shows that the majority of Donegal
people (nearly one quarter) are in the social class
2 with nearly a fifth in the social class 4 bracket
and 16.6% in social class 7.
There are 3,567 dwellings in ghost estates with 600
of those homes empty, the figures show.
Contrastingly, while Co Donegal has a high
percentage of people with no formal education it
fares relatively well in the doctorate stakes. There
are 200 people in the county educated to doctorate
level which compares favourably and in many cases
better than other counties. A total of 17,342
Donegal people have third level degrees; 4,075 have
third level post-grads while some 45,000 people have
a lower secondary or higher secondary education.
As a railway-deprived county it is hardly surprising
that many people in Co Donegal rely on cars to get
them to work and school.
A total of 51,482 people travel to work or school by
car; 9,612 do so by foot or bicycle with 14,106
using the bus.
Hugh Mangan of Ordnance Survey Ireland told
reporters at this week's launch: “It’s called
decision map because that’s what we want you to use
it for." He said everyone could benefit from a
better understanding of data. |
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