Geographic Profile
This chapter explores the geographical element to socio-economic backgrounds, such as:
County breakdowns
Distance to Institute
Note: A student’s home address relates to their family home, not term-time accommodation. Note that with any filter combination in the below graph, if the minimum number of students by county and filter combination is less than 100 students, then no DIS will appear. This does not mean that no students attend a particular institute from a particular county. Instead, there are less than 100 students for that particular combination.
Key Finding:
Looking at all students, students with a home address in Dublin were most Affluent (4.6), while students from Longford were most deprived (-4.8). Note that the average DIS was 2.0 for all students.
Undergraduate
Overall, the average DIS for an Undergraduate student was 1.7.
Students with a home address in Kildare (4.2) were the most Affluent. This was followed by Dublin (4.1) and Cork (4.1).
Longford students were the most Disadvantaged (-4.9), followed by students from Donegal (-4.8) and Cavan (-3.0).
Postgraduate
Amongst Postgraduate students, the average DIS was 3.5.
Amongst Postgraduate students, Dublin (6.6), Kildare (5.3), and Cork (5.2) students were the most Affluent.
Longford and Donegal students were most Disadvantaged, with a DIS of -4.4 and 3.7 respectively.
Donegal was the county with the highest percentage of students with a home address in a Disadvantaged area (24%), despite Longford being the county with the lowest average DIS score. A further 48% of Donegal students were from Marginally Below Average areas. This means that only 28% of Donegal students came from Marginally Above Average or Affluent areas. Note that the average DIS for Donegal higher education students was -4.7.
Longford was the county with the lowest average DIS Score (-4.8). 21% of students with a home address in Longford were Disadvantaged with a further 53% from Marginally Below Average areas. 27% were from Marginally Above Average areas with 0% from Affluent areas.
Students with a home address in Dublin were most Affluent (4.6). 33% are from Affluent areas, while 42% were from Marginally Above Average areas. This means that 75% of students from Dublin were either from Affluent or Marginally Above Average areas. On average, for all students, this was 63%.
Meath had the highest proportion of students from Marginally Above Average areas (61%).
The counties where students had to travel the greatest distance to their institutes were: Leitrim (108km), Longford (93km), Monaghan (91km) and Kilkenny (91km) (Median distance travelled).
Students with a home address in Dublin (8km), Limerick (15km) and Cork (17km) had the shortest distances to travel to their institutes.
By Institue: TUD was the institute at which students Home addresses were the closest to the campus at 10km followed by DCU (12km) and NCI (12km).
The Institutes at which students home addresses were the furthest away are St Angelas (98km), MIC (74km) and UL (70km).