Editing Celbridge (section)

==Demographics==
Celbridge is the third largest town in County Kildare.  The population increased by 7.8% between 2002 and 2006, the town's most rapid growth rate in absolute terms (3,011 in four years). However, in percentage terms, it was a slowdown on previous growth rates which were at one stage the highest in Ireland. Celbridge's growth slowed down to 1.5% between 2016 and 2022, reaching a population of 20,601 as of the [[census]] of 2022.<ref name="cso2022"/>

Of the 2006 population of 17,262.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cso.ie/census/census2006results/volume_2/census_2006_vol_2_tables_14_15.pdf |title=Census 2006 – Table 14A – Towns 10,000 population and over |access-date=23 May 2007 |archive-date=15 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115023732/http://www.cso.ie//Census/census2006results/volume_2/census_2006_vol_2_tables_14_15.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> 8,732 were male and 8,530 female, 4,307 (25pc) were aged 0–14, 2,678 (15.5pc) were aged 15–24, 6,219 (35pc) were aged 35–44, 3,400 (19.7pc) were aged 45–64 and 658 (3.6pc) were aged 65 years and over. Of these 9,586 were single, 6,602 were married, 715 were widowed and 359 were separated. Only 4,146 (24.4pc) of the 16,980 who were recorded by the census as "usually resident in Celbridge" had been born in County Kildare. 10,071 (59.3pc) had been born elsewhere in Ireland and 2,763 (16.3pc) were born outside Ireland.