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Urban rural divide is split in Carlow

KCLR96FM News & Sport by KCLR96FM News & Sport
11/05/2017
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Urban rural divide is split in Carlow
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The population of Carlow is split nearly 50-50 between urban and rural areas.

While in Kilkenny the split is 60-40 with more people living in rural areas.

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The Central Statistics office has released more figures today from Census 2016 showing that Carlows population of nearly 57 thousand people is split nearly equally between the towns and more rural parts of the county.

Tullow is the fastest growing town in county carlow experiencing an 18percent population growth between 2011 and 2016.

In Kilkenny the rural-urban divide is almost split 60-40 which is more in keeping with the national trend.

Just over 61 percent of Kilkennys population of 99 thousand 232 people are living in the country while nearly 39 percent are in towns.

The city itself was the fastest growing urban area – the population there grew by 8.6 percent between 2011 and 2016.

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