Editing Slane (section)

==Population and demographics==
{{Historical populations
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|1991|699
|1996|688
|2002|823
|2006|1099
|2011|1349
|2016|1369
|source=<ref name="citypop">{{cite web|url = https://www.citypopulation.de/en/ireland/towns/meath/0857__slane/ | website = citypopulation.ie | title = Slane (Ireland) Census Town | access-date = 17 February 2020 }}</ref>
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In the 20 years between the 1996 and 2016 census, Slane doubled in population, from 699 to 1,369 inhabitants.<ref name="citypop"/><ref name="cso2016">{{cite web | url = http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=681C1DC0-9A29-4299-BAC1-19ABA6C34F8A | publisher = Central Statistics Office | work = Census 2016 | title = Sapmap Area - Settlements - Slane | date = April 2016 | access-date = 17 February 2020 | archive-date = 2 March 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220302145459/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=681C1DC0-9A29-4299-BAC1-19ABA6C34F8A | url-status = dead }}</ref>

As of the 2006 census, there were 1,099 people living in Slane, having grown from a population of 823 in 2002. The population of the village and the surrounding rural area was 1,587 in 2006, up from 1,336 in 2002.<ref name="cso2006">{{cite web | title = Census 2006 – Volume 1 – Population Classified by Area | work = Central Statistics Office Census 2006 Reports | publisher = [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|Central Statistics Office Ireland]] |date=April 2007 | url = http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/census2006_volume_1_pop_classified_by_area.pdf | access-date = 24 June 2011}}</ref>

According to the [[2016 census of Ireland|2016 census]], of those who commute to work or school, 77% (658 of 854 respondents) had a commute of less than 1 hour.<ref name="cso2016"/>