Report examines age groups living alone in Galway
The 65 and over age category has the highest proportion of people living alone in the city and county.
That's according to figures from the Central Statistics Office published in the Regional Quality of Life in Ireland report.
In the city, 24 percent of the population aged 65 and over lives alone while the figure stands at almost 25 percent in the county.
15 percent of the city population aged 45 to 64 live alone with 11 percent of that age group living alone in the county.