Editing Gort (section)

==Population==
{{Historical populations|state=collapsed
|1821|2559
|1831|2627
|1841|3056
|1851|2398
|1861|2097
|1871|1773
|1881|1719
|1891|1498
|1901|1339
|1911|1166
|1926|1083
|1936|1034
|1946|1046
|1951|1008
|1956|1094
|1961|1044
|1966|990
|1971|975
|1981|1095
|1986|1021
|1991|1093
|1996|1182
|2002|1776
|2006|2734
|2011|2644
|2016|2994
|2022|2870
| footnote=<ref name=cso2022/><ref name="Ref_">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cso.ie/census |title=Census for post 1821 figures |access-date=1 August 2009 |archive-date=9 March 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309005718/http://www.cso.ie/census/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Ref_a">{{Cite web |url=http://www.histpop.org/ |title=histpop.org |access-date=31 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ |archive-date=7 May 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Ref_b">{{cite web|url = http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census | title = Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency – Census Home Page |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |archive-date=17 February 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book
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| year=1981|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford, England
| chapter=On the accuracy of the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Pre-famine]] Irish censuses}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Mokyr  | first1 = Joel | author-link = Joel Mokyr  | last2 = Ó Gráda  | first2 = Cormac | author2-link = Cormac Ó Gráda  | title = New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850  | journal = The Economic History Review  | volume = 37  | issue = 4 | pages = 473–488  |date=November 1984
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}}
As of the [[2016 census of Ireland|2016 census]], Gort had around 3,000 inhabitants and was one of the most diverse towns in Ireland, with 26.6% being non-Irish.<ref>{{Cite web |title=All non-Irish nationals in Ireland – CSO – Central Statistics Office |url=https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cp7md/p7md/p7anii/ |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=www.cso.ie |language=en}}</ref>

According to the 2006 census, approximately 40% of the residents of Gort were non-Irish, mainly [[Brazil]]ians. These people originally came to work in the meat processing plants in Gort, where the pay is generally much higher than in similar plants in Brazil. According to Claire Healy's ''Irish Migration Studies in Latin America'', a "large community of Brazilians now live, work and attend school in Gort, gradually altering the appearance and the character of the town".<ref name="healy">{{cite web|url = http://www.irlandeses.org/healy_gort.htm | title = Carnaval do Galway: The Brazilian Community in Gort, 1999–2006 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070625220331/http://www.irlandeses.org/healy_gort.htm |archive-date=25 June 2007 | first = Claire |last = Healy | work = Irish Migration Studies in Latin America | date = July 2006 | via = irlandeses.org | accessdate = 14 August 2007}}</ref> By the time of the 2011 census, non-Irish nationals accounted for 27.2% of the population. The largest group (417 people) were still Brazilians, followed by UK nationals (81).<ref name="Census2011">{{Cite web|url=http://census.cso.ie/areaprofiles/areaprofile.aspx?Geog_Type=ST&Geog_Code=27010|title=Area Profile For Town – Gort Co. Galway | website = census.cso.ie |access-date=16 June 2016|archive-date=23 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623172110/http://census.cso.ie/areaprofiles/areaprofile.aspx?Geog_Type=ST&Geog_Code=27010|url-status=live}}</ref>