Blanchardstown

Dublin, Ireland

Blanchardstown (Baile Bhlainséir in Irish) is an outer suburb - it is located 10km north-west of the city centre. The village is in the Dublin 15 postal area and was considered a rural village in western County Dublin until the late 1960s, when the first housing estates began to be developed. Blanchardstown developed in tandem with neighbouring settlement Castleknock, both of which grew rapidly from the early 1970s to the present. During the 1970s and 1980s, the village became subsumed into the suburban fabric of Dublin. In the village proper may be found a number of shopping centres and retail units, including the Superquinn Shopping Centre. Further afield the are the shopping centres of Castleknock village. Blanchardstown Shopping Centre is a vast shopping centre and retail park that acts like a town within the town. Multinational companies like IBM, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Symantec, eBay, Creative Labs, Xerox and Paypal are located in the area.

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Area Statistics

Area:	3.66 square km
Population:	17560
Population Density:	4799 people/km ²

Age
25 - 34 :	21.9 %	National 17.0 %
Under 15 :	20.1 %	20.4 %
15 - 24 :	18.2 %	14.9 %
35 - 44 :	12.2 %	14.7 %
45 - 54 :	11.9 %	12.3 %
55 - 64 :	10.0 %	9.6 %
65 & Over :	5.7 %	11.0 %

Marital Status
Single :	57.9 %	National 54.7 %
Married :	35.4 %	36.9 %
Separated :	2.8 %	2.5 %
Divorced :	1.4 %	1.4 %
Widowed :	2.5 %	4.5 %

Commuter Type
Car :	48.5 %	National 63.7 %
Walk :	23.3 %	17.5 %
Bicycle :	2.8 %	2.2 %
Bus :	14.8 %	13.2 %
Rail :	9.5 %	2.9 %
Motorbike :	1.0 %	0.6 %

Commute Time
< 15 mins :	27.5 %	National 37.7 %
15 - 29 mins :	23.6 %	30.5 %
30 - 44 mins :	20.6 %	16.6 %
45 - 59 mins :	11.3 %	6.1 %
60 - 89 mins :	13.0 %	6.4 %
> 90 mins :	4.0 %	2.7 %

Social Class
Managerial & Technical :	24.7 %	National 26.4 %
Professional :	6.3 %	6.5 %
Non-manual :	19.6 %	17.0 %
Skilled-manual :	14.7 %	17.1 %
Semi-skilled :	9.6 %	11.1 %
Unskilled :	3.9 %	4.3 %
Other :	21.1 %	17.6 %

Religion
Catholic :	82.0 %	National 88.3 %
Other :	12.7 %	7.2 %
None :	5.3 %	4.5 %

Housing
House :	87.1 %	National 89.2 %
Apartment :	12.5 %	9.7 %
Bedsit :	0.3 %	0.6 %
Mobile home :	0.1 %	0.5 %

Education (Highest Achieved)
Secondary :	41.2 %	National 41.7 %
No formal :	0.5 %	0.6 %
Primary :	14.7 %	18.3 %
Technical or Vocational :	8.5 %	9.0 %
Non-Degree :	11.8 %	11.1 %
Primary Degree :	7.8 %	6.1 %
Professional Qualification :	6.8 %	6.3 %
Postgraduate Cert. or Diploma :	4.3 %	3.3 %
Masters :	4.0 %	3.1 %
Ph.D. :	0.6 %	0.5 %

Third Level Qualification
Social Sciences, Business Law :	23.6 %	National 21.3 %
Education :	7.1 %	7.6 %
Arts & Humanities :	10.2 %	10.1 %
Science :	5.2 %	5.2 %
Computing :	10.0 %	6.8 %
Engineering :	10.4 %	12.5 %
Agricultural & Veterinary :	1.1 %	2.6 %
Health :	12.0 %	12.3 %
Social Services :	3.1 %	3.2 %
Services :	5.8 %	6.2 %
Multiple Subjects :	11.4 %	12.3 %

Employment (by Industry)
Commerce & Trade :	35.1 %	National 29.1 %
Forestry & Fishing :	0.3 %	1.5 %
Construction :	8.0 %	10.2 %
Manufacturing :	12.4 %	15.6 %
Public Service :	8.4 %	6.6 %
Professional Services :	19.1 %	19.7 %
Other :	16.7 %	17.4 %

Household
Couple with Children :	38.4 %	National 35.2 %
One Person :	13.2 %	22.4 %
Couple without Children :	16.2 %	18.3 %
Single Parent :	14.0 %	10.4 %
Other :	18.2 %	13.7 %

Ethnicity
White Irish :	79.7 %	National 89.5 %
White other :	10.1 %	7.1 %
Black :	3.9 %	1.1 %
Asian :	3.7 %	1.3 %
Other :	2.6 %	1.1 %

Nationality
Irish :	83.2 %	National 89.8 %
British :	1.3 %	2.7 %
Polish :	2.0 %	1.5 %
Lithuanian :	1.5 %	0.6 %
Other E.U. :	2.9 %	1.8 %
Rest of the world :	9.2 %	3.5 %

House Age
1961 - 1980 :	46.4 %	National 23.4 %
Before 1919 :	0.3 %	11.1 %
1919 - 1960 :	2.9 %	18.0 %
1981 - 2000 :	29.6 %	29.7 %
After 2001 :	20.8 %	17.9 %

Area Statistics are compiled from the latest Census data for the following DEDs: 010 Blanchardstown-Coolmine, 012 Blanchardstown-Delwood, 014 Blanchardstown-Roselawn.

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