Roscommon in Census 2011 - Roscommon County Council

Single people
The highest proportions of singles were in the cities, Galway (62.7%), Dublin (60.7%) and Cork
(57.8%). The counties with the lowest proportion single were Roscommon (50.3%), Leitrim
(50.5%) and Mayo (51.0%).
However, these percentages depend heavily on the underlying age structure of each county.
Younger counties tend to have more single people while older counties have more married and
widowed people. Confining the analysis to those in their forties mitigates these effects.
While the cities still top the board with high proportions of singles (all the cities have over 25
per cent single), more rural counties such as Sligo (23.6%), Leitrim (21.8%) and Kerry (21.8%)
also have high rates of single people. And the counties with the lowest percentages of single
people are also among those with the youngest overall age such as Meath (15.4%), Kildare
(16.0%) and Cork County (17.9%).
Married people
Galway County (40.3%), Roscommon (40.2%) and Meath (40.0%) had the highest proportions
of married. The cities had the lowest percentages; Dublin and Galway each had less than
30 per cent of their adult population married.
Single and married people in Roscommon,
2006 and 2011
Single
Married
2006 29,484 23,808
2011 32,210 25,778
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