Women, teenagers and children accounted for 86 per cent of the 33,151 people who have arrived from Ukraine in the past three months, new Central Statistics Office figures show.
Dublin’s north inner-city had the highest number of arrivals with 1,156 people, while Ennistimon in Co Clare had the highest rate of arrivals as a share of the local population.
In the first data to be published offering insights into Ireland’s response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis, the CSO said that as of the week ending May 22 some 33,151 personal public service numbers (PPSNs) had been issued to individuals from Ukraine since early March.
Women aged 20 and over accounted for 48 per cent of the arrivals, while children and teenagers aged up to 19 years of age accounted for a further 38 per cent.
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Almost one in three or 29 per cent of arrivals were aged 14 and under.
Most of the arrivals, 43 per cent or 14,271 people, were categorised as “one parent with children”, reflecting the fact that the vast majority of people fleeing the Russian invasion were younger women as men considered of fighting age were prohibited from leaving Ukraine.
The data is based on the local post office address through which refugees were seeking assistance from the Department of Social Protection.
Using the local post office address as a proxy for place of residence for 29,718 people who could be mapped to a local area, the CSO found that arrivals from Ukraine were present in all local electoral areas of the country.
CSO statistician Karola Graupner said that the rate of arrivals from Ukraine for every 100 people in those local areas ranged from 0.03 per cent to 6.81 per cent.
Ennistimon, the area with the highest proportion of arrivals from Ukraine as a share of the population, has become home to 1,118 people from Ukraine
The rural Drogheda local electoral area in Co Louth had the lowest rate in the country, with just six people from Ukraine finding refugee there.
Active claims for welfare payments have fallen from a high of 29,050 in the last week of April to 22,663 for the week ending May 22nd.
The number of total beneficiaries including children associated with a child benefit payment peaked has fallen slightly from a peak of 26,498 in the second week of May to 26,101 last week.
Among the 33,151 people who have arrived fro Ukraine, 6,454 were couples with children and 2,066 were couples with no children.
Just over 10,000 people were individuals or where no relationship was recorded.
