County Wexford - Demographics

Demographics

In 2011 the county had a total population of 145,320 people. Of these, 62.1% (89,709 people) lived in rural areas and 37.9% (55,611 people) lived in urban areas. 34.3% of the county's population (49,889 people) were aged under 25 years and 12.6% of its population (18,367 people) were aged over 65 years. 87.9% of the county's population stated their religion as Roman Catholic and 4.2% stated they had no religion, though in reality of the 87.9% that declared to be Catholic, infact about 10% practice this religion i.e. go to mass etc and live by the rules of the Catholic church. Other religions made up the remainder. Between 2002 and 2006, the population of County Wexford increased by 13% (15,153 people). and between 2006 and 2011 the population increased by another 10% (13,524 people).