Editing Kilkenny (section)

===Population===
{{Historical populations|state=collapsed
|1821|23230
|1831|23741
|1841|19071
|1851|15257
|1861|13235
|1871|12710
|1881|12299
|1891|11048
|1901|10609
|1911|19514
|1926|10046
|1936|10237
|1946|10291
|1951|10572
|1956|12328
|1961|12081
|1966|12030
|1971|13306
|1981|16886
|1986|17517
|1991|17669
|1996|18696
|2002|20735
|2006|22179
|2011|24423
|2016|26512
|2022|27184
| footnote=<ref name="Census for post 1821 figures">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cso.ie/census|title=Census for post 1821 figures.|access-date=20 May 2009|archive-date=20 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920090850/http://cso.ie/census/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.histpop.org/ |title=Histpop&nbsp;– The Online Historical Population Reports Website |access-date=2009-12-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ |archive-date=2016-05-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=NISRA |url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |title=Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency&nbsp;– Census Home Page |publisher=Nisranew.nisra.gov.uk |access-date=2010-07-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census/ |archive-date=2012-02-17 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lee |first=JJ |author-link =J. J. Lee (historian)|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
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The majority of the population of Kilkenny live outside the borough's boundary. The urban centre of Kilkenny, as defined by the census, had a population of 27,184 in 2022.<ref name="cso2022">{{cite web|title=Census 2022 - F1015 Population|work=Central Statistics Office Census 2022 Reports |publisher=[[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|Central Statistics Office Ireland]] |date=August 2023 |url=https://data.cso.ie/table/F1015 |access-date=16 September 2023}}</ref>

Changes as of the 2006 census, by the [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|Central Statistics Office]], Kilkenny Town Borough had a population of 8,661 which was an increase of 70 persons over the 2002 figure of 8,591 or 0.8%. The Town Environs had a population of 13,518 which was an increase of 1347 persons over the 2002 figure of 12,144 or 11.3%.<ref>Table 5: Population of Towns ordered by County and size, 2002 and 2006.</ref> Overall both the Borough & Environs had a population of 22,179 in 2006 which was an increase of 1444 persons over the 2002 figure of 20,735 or 7.0%. People from Kilkenny are often referred to as 'Cats'.

Disposable household income per person as of 2005 was €18,032 and the index of disposable household was 89.4.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cso.ie/studentscorner/statsfactskilkenny.htm|title=Source:County Incomes and Regional GDP 2005, CSO|access-date=2009-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090522161020/http://www.cso.ie/studentscorner/statsfactskilkenny.htm|archive-date=2009-05-22|url-status=dead}}</ref>