Editing Limerick (section)

==Demographics==
{{see also|List of Limerick people}}
{{Historical populations
|state=collapsed
|1659|3105
|1821|59045
|1831|66554
|1841|48391
|1851|48785
|1861|43924
|1871|39353
|1881|38562
|1891|37155
|1901|38151
|1911|38518
|1926|39448
|1936|41061
|1946|42970
|1951|50820
|1956|51666
|1961|51732
|1966|58082
|1971|57161
|1979|60665
|1981|60736
|1986|56279
|1991|52083
|1996|52039
|2002|54023
|2006|59790
|2011|56779
||footnote=<ref>For 1653 and 1659 figures from Civil Survey Census of those years, Paper of Mr Hardinge to Royal Irish Academy 14 March 1865.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cso.ie/census |title=Census for post 1821 figures |publisher=Cso.ie |access-date=12 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309005718/http://www.cso.ie/census/ |archive-date=9 March 2005 }}</ref>{{Where|date=July 2011}}{{Specify|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.histpop.org |title=Histpop.org |publisher=Histpop.org |date=2 April 2007 |access-date=12 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ |archive-date=7 May 2016 }}</ref>{{Where|date=July 2011}}{{Specify|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|author=NISRA |url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |title=Nisra.gov.uk |publisher=Government of the United Kingdom |access-date=12 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |archive-date=17 February 2012 }}</ref>{{Where|date=July 2011}}{{Specify|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite book
|last=Lee
|first=JJ
|editor-last=Goldstrom
|editor-first=J. M.
|editor2-last=Clarkson
|editor2-first=L. A.
|title=Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell
|year=1981
|publisher=Clarendon Press
|location=Oxford, England
|chapter=On the accuracy of the Pre-famine Irish censuses
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal
  | last1        = Mokyr
  | first1       = Joel
  | author-link = Joel Mokyr
  | last2       = O Grada
  | first2      = Cormac
  | title       = New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850
  | journal     = The Economic History Review
  | volume      = 37
  | issue       = 4
  | pages       = 473–488
  | date        = November 1984
  | url         = http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract
  | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121204160709/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract
  | url-status  = dead
  | archive-date = 4 December 2012
  | doi         = 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x
  | hdl         = 10197/1406
 | hdl-access= free
  }}</ref>{{Where|date=July 2011}}{{Specify|date=May 2011}}{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<!--There's nothing on p. 473, the only accessible page to the public, so that by itself is an incorrect page number.  What are the correct page numbers?-->
}}
Limerick is the third-largest city in the Republic of Ireland (after [[Dublin]] and [[Cork (city)|Cork]]), with a population of 102,287 in the urban area<ref name=cso2022/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Interactive Data Visualisations {{!}} CSO Ireland |url=https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/ima/cop/2022&boundary=C04160V04929&guid=fe12eecc-1fac-4b44-9c3d-54e9d080f92e&theme=1 |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=visual.cso.ie}}</ref> and 104,952 in the metropolitan district, according to the 2016 [[Central Statistics Office of Ireland|CSO]] census.<ref name="Municipal District Limerick"/> the [[2011 census of Ireland|2011 census]] had reported a large population decline in central city areas due in part to the Limerick regeneration process where in these areas the largest reduction was reported nationally and also to outward migration following the collapse of the local and national economy from 2008 onwards.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0630/census.html | publisher=RTÉ News | title=Census reveals Irish population now over 4.58m | date=30 June 2011 | access-date=6 May 2012 | archive-date=10 May 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510005617/http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0630/census.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The population of the Limerick [[Larger Urban Zone]] as defined by the EU is 162,413.<ref name="Eurostat"/>{{Update inline|reason=Figure is from 2011 and was estimated|date=February 2020}} The ethnic diversity in Limerick's population, which includes a large immigrant community, saw rapid growth during the [[Celtic Tiger]] and the following decade.{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}} As of the [[2016 census of Ireland|2016 census]] the Polish community was one of the largest demographic groups in the Municipal District, with approximately 4,000 living and working in the area.<ref name="Municipal District Limerick"/> In late 2006, it was proposed that Ireland's first Polish bank could open in the area during 2007.<ref name="Polishbank">[http://breakingnews.ie/2006/12/07/story288413.html Limerick may get Polish bank] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930165012/http://breakingnews.ie/2006/12/07/story288413.html |date=30 September 2007}} – breakingnews.ie 7 December 2006</ref>

Limerick has a large stock of [[Public housing|local authority]] housing. Before the amalgamation of Limerick City and County Council, 41% of all housing within the old Limerick City Council boundary was [[Public housing|local authority]], which was the highest in Ireland. This figure is however no longer accurate given the larger metropolitan district of the city.<ref name="limerickleader.ie">{{cite news |last=Hurley |first=David |url=http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/limerick-estates-are-unemployment-blackspots-1-4010085 |title=Limerick estates are unemployment blackspots |publisher=[[Limerick Leader]] |date=2 July 2012 |access-date=27 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704192626/http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/limerick-estates-are-unemployment-blackspots-1-4010085 |archive-date=4 July 2013 }}</ref>

As of the 2022 census, the ethnic makeup of the city was 76.53% [[White people|white]] total, including 67.47% white Irish and 8.53% other white people, 13.52% not stated, 5.48% Asian, 2.31% other and 2.14% [[Black people in Ireland|black]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interactive Data Visualisations {{!}} CSO Ireland |url=https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/ima/cop/2022&boundary=C04160V04929&guid=fe12eecc-1fac-4b44-9c3d-54e9d080f92e |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=visual.cso.ie}}</ref> The city's religious makeup in 2022 was 61.31% [[Irish Catholics|Catholic]], 14.11% no religion, 13.91% not stated, and 10.66% other religions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interactive Data Visualisations {{!}} CSO Ireland |url=https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/ima/cop/2022&boundary=C04160V04929&guid=fe12eecc-1fac-4b44-9c3d-54e9d080f92e&theme=1 |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=visual.cso.ie}}</ref>