The publication today of preliminary reports from the 2011 census provide some interesting statistics for county Donegal
The figure show for instance that the county’s population in 2011 stands at 160,927 – showing an increase of 13,663 or 9.3% on the 2006 census figure of 147,264.
Of that figure 80,411 are male, compared to 80,516 females.
Since 2006 the key changes in population in Donegal show 6,441 more males, 7,222 more females in the county as a whole.
One of the big questions after the numbers are crunched will focus on whether or not the county will continue to have six TDs when electoral reform measures are put in place.
One of the country’s top analysts Adrian Kavanagh, a lecturer in the Geography Department at NUI Maynooth has already tweeted that Donegal NE and SW are both too small now to remain as 3-seaters, but too large to become separate 5-seater, could be tricky
No doubt the number crunchers will be hard at work over the next few days on what this means for the country, and indeed perhaps for individual counties.
In the meantime I have included some of the key figures pertaining to Co Donegal in the tables below and all the figures can be found on www.cso.ie
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