Photo: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 99% of Irish towns: half of Borris is over 46.6
In Borris, 7.8% of residents said they have no religion, beside 17% across Ireland’s towns. Higher than in 93% of Irish towns: 3.5% of homes are holiday homes. At the 2022 Census Borris was home to 702 people in 259 households. On the census count, 0.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Borris changed by +3% from 2016 to 2022, behind 78% of Irish towns
Residents at the 2016 and 2022 censuses, on 2022 boundaries, and the change beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Change, 2016 to 2022
CSO publishes yearly population estimates for counties and regions, not towns, so the trend is two censuses rather than a line; 2016 ages aren’t on 2022 boundaries, so there is no change by age.
For comparison, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +9% across Co. Carlow’s towns.
Above 99% of Irish towns: 26% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.1%, below 99% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 14% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Carlow 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Students among residents 15 and over: 4.9%, a lower share than 99% of Irish towns
CSO’s social classes (everyone, by their own or their family’s occupation), the occupations of those at work, and where residents lived a year before the Census.
Residents by social class · all residents
Where residents lived a year earlier
Residents who lived somewhere else a year earlier. The bar runs to 25%.
Workers by occupation · residents at work
In Borris, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 27% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 20%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 11%.
One-person households make up 31% in Borris, more than in 84% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Carlow’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
The typical household size is 2.6 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. One-person households make up 24% across Ireland’s towns. Here, 43% of households are parents with children.
A smaller share of households in flats than 97% of Irish towns: 1.9%
Home types, cars and the internet, by household. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Cars or vans · share of households
Internet at home · share of households
By its share of households without a car or van (19%), Borris is above 56% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, households in flats come to 12%. Broadband: 80% of households.
Household income at the median: €49,360 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Before tax, the middle household here has €49,360 a year, 18% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). County median: €53,120 (Co. Carlow).
Residents born outside Ireland: 16%, a lower share than 79% of Irish towns
Place of birth and citizenship as CSO asks them: born abroad includes Irish citizens born abroad.
Born abroad, by birthplace · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
Citizens of another country, by citizenship; CSO counts dual Irish citizens as Irish.
Other languages · share of all residents
CSO’s small-area tables don’t give the year people arrived.
10% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (5.3%); 0.7% speak English not well or not at all. As a yardstick, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Lower than in 78% of Irish towns: 9.7% of residents are citizens of another country.
Irish: 34% of Borris’s residents can speak it
Residents aged 3 and over who can speak Irish, and how often they speak it outside education (CSO).
Irish speakers · residents aged 3 and over
In all, 209 residents aged 3 and over (34%) can speak Irish. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
A higher share of residents who said they are Catholic than 99% of Irish towns, at 88%
Ethnic or cultural background and religion, in CSO’s categories, as people described themselves.
Ethnic groups other than White Irish · all residents
White Irish, not charted: 88% of Borris · Co. Carlow’s towns 79% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish; in Borris, 88%. For comparison, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (9%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.4%) and Other, including mixed (0.4%).
Only 33% of residents 15 and over are married in Borris
Marital status of residents 15 and over, and unpaid carers.
Partnership status · residents 15 and over
The small-area tables count carers, not their hours of care.
For Borris, the census puts unpaid carers at 5.4%. 52% of the town’s residents 15 and over are single and 33% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 90% of Irish towns: 20%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Primary level or earlier: 13%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Postgraduate: 6.6% of adults.
No nearby town is as old as Borris
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borris | 702 | — | 46.6 | 26% | 43% |
| Graiguenamanagh-Tinnahinch | 1,506 | 7.1 km | 44.1 | 22% | 39% |
| Muinebeag (Bagenalstown) | 2,945 | 10.7 km | 39.8 | 18% | 43% |
| Thomastown | 2,305 | 16.2 km | 40.6 | 15% | 49% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Carlow’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Carlow has fewer than five towns of 2,500 or more, so its figure is the median of its towns of 1,000 or more; the national figure is the median of the Irish towns of 2,500 or more (city totals left out). Percentiles are within Ireland only.
- The earlier population is an estimate. Towns had no official 2016 count on today’s boundaries, so the 2016 figure is CSO’s electoral-division count shared out by where people lived in 2022: read a small town in a large rural division loosely.
- What these tables don’t give. The small-area tables give no year of arrival and no hours of care, and a town’s electoral divisions run past its edge, so the page doesn’t split a town into named areas (a city lists its neighbourhoods).
- The census’s own words. Born abroad, citizenship, ethnic or cultural background and religion are CSO’s questions and categories; the page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
Questions about Borris’s residents
What is the population of Borris?
Borris had 702 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Borris?
The median age is 46.6. 21% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Borris?
34% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (209 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Borris?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 9.7% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Borris?
88% are Catholic, 7.8% have no religion and 4.4% another religion; 2% didn’t say.
Is Borris good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 21% of residents are under 18. Schools near Borris are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Borris?
Median gross household income in Borris was €49,360 in 2022, against €53,120 across Co. Carlow and €60,120 for Ireland.
Sources: CSO, Census of Population 2022, Small Area Population Statistics · CSO PxStat FP009 (2016 by electoral division) · CSO GPIIA, household income 2022. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).