Editing Waterford (section)

===Demographics===

With a 2022 population of 60,079,<ref name=cso2022/> Waterford is the fifth most populous city in the state and the 32nd most populous area of local government.<ref>{{cite book| first=Eoghan| last=Corry| title=The GAA Book of Lists| publisher=Hodder Headline Ireland| year=2005| pages=186–191}}</ref>

The population of Waterford grew from 1,555 in 1653 to around 28,000 in the early 19th century, declining to just over 20,000 at the end of the 19th, then rising steadily to over 40,000 during the 20th century.<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=Server Error 404 - CSO - Central Statistics Office|website=Cso.ie|access-date=1 October 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920090814/http://cso.ie/census|archive-date=20 September 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.histpop.org|title=Histpop.org|website=Histpop.org|access-date=1 October 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/|archive-date=7 May 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census|title=Home|website=Nisranew.nisraa.gov.uk|access-date=1 October 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census|archive-date=17 February 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><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 = 2012-12-04
| doi = 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x
| hdl = 10197/1406
| hdl-access = free
}}</ref> By the time of the [[2016 census of Ireland|2016 census]], Waterford city and suburbs had a population of 53,504 and the broader metropolitan area a population of 59,854.<ref>{{cite report| url = https://www.southernassembly.ie/uploads/general-files/Waterford_Southern_Regional_Assembly_MASP_Report_Waterford_v2.pdf | publisher = Southern Regional Assembly | website = southernassembly.ie | title = Waterford Metropolitan Area Strategic Plan | date = 2020 | pages = 5, 6 | quote = [Waterford] City and suburbs have since expanded to a population of 53,504 [..] The Waterford Metropolitan Area recorded a population of 59,854 in the 2016 Census [..] }}</ref>