Development
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1821 | 1,260 | — |
| 1831 | 1,647 | +30.7% |
| 1841 | 1,206 | −26.8% |
| 1851 | 1,674 | +38.8% |
| 1861 | 1,592 | −4.9% |
| 1871 | 1,391 | −12.6% |
| 1881 | 988 | −29.0% |
| 1891 | 811 | −17.9% |
| 1901 | 885 | +9.1% |
| 1911 | 812 | −8.2% |
| 1926 | 643 | −20.8% |
| 1936 | 627 | −2.5% |
| 1946 | 539 | −14.0% |
| 1951 | 567 | +5.2% |
| 1956 | 1,228 | +116.6% |
| 1961 | 1,371 | +11.6% |
| 1966 | 1,514 | +10.4% |
| 1971 | 1,744 | +15.2% |
| 1979 | 3,230 | +85.2% |
| 1981 | 4,583 | +41.9% |
| 1986 | 7,135 | +55.7% |
| 1991 | 9,629 | +35.0% |
| 1996 | 12,289 | +27.6% |
| 2002 | 14,251 | +16.0% |
| 2006 | 17,262 | +21.1% |
| 2011 | 19,537 | +13.2% |
Six main residential and commercial areas were developed in Celbridge over a period of 250 years: Main Street (1720–50), Tea (or Tay) Lane (1760), Maynooth Road (1790, when construction of Jasmine Lodge replaced six cabins on Main Street and eight cabins on Maynooth Road), English Row (1805–11), Ballyoulster (1948–51), and St Patrick’s Park (two phases 1954-57 and 1964–67). The historical population of the town in the 19th and 20th century period closely mirrored periods of activity and cyclical closure of the town's woollen mills, once the largest in the country.
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