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Case Studies: Clare<br />
Clare <strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong> County<br />
Case Study<br />
Introduction<br />
Blessed with a unique landscape and lively towns and villages on the Atlantic<br />
seaboard, County Clare is a much loved Irish county. It is a county that has lived<br />
through waves of emigration but has also experienced immigration – people<br />
settling from other European and African countries, returned emigrants and<br />
even people migrating from other parts of Ireland. County Clare relies heavily on<br />
its tourism industry – and the aeronautical industry at Shannon has given the<br />
county a special status historically which has helped the local economy hugely.<br />
Clare Facts & Figures<br />
• The population of County Clare is 117,196.<br />
• Thirteen per cent of the population is aged 65 and over (14,519).<br />
• One in three older people live alone and another 30 per cent live in a two<br />
person household where both people are aged 65 +<br />
• Ten per cent of the population has a disability, 36 per cent of whom are<br />
over 65.<br />
• One in three people in Clare live in rural areas.<br />
• Clare has moved from a predominantly agricultural county to one reliant<br />
on the aeronautical industry and the financial and technological services<br />
which have built up around it.<br />
• Unemployment stands at 9%.<br />
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