Photo: liam murphy · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Tinryland is over 42.3, older than 91% of Irish towns
Here 96% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 78%. Tinryland counted 338 residents and 125 households at the 2022 Census. The share of shared households of unrelated adults stands at 1.6%. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
Tinryland changed by +1% from 2016 to 2022, slower than 88% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +9% across Co. Carlow’s towns.
Residents aged 65 and over: 16%, a higher share than 64% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 45–49, with nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Carlow 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 95% of Irish towns: 3.9%
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
Across Ireland’s towns, just over a third of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Tinryland, 35% and 17%. Set beside that, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of households of parents with children than 87% of Irish towns, at 53%
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.
Households average 2.8 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Census figures put one-person households at 21% in Tinryland. For comparison, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
Households without a car or van make up 11% in Tinryland, less than in 72% of Irish towns
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
Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. In one household in 9 there is no car or van. 74% have broadband at home and 21% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%).
Household income at the median: €63,840 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €63,840 a year before tax, the median household income is 6% above that of Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Carlow the median is €53,120.
7.4% of residents were born outside Ireland, below 99% 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.
2.1% of residents are citizens of another country; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 15%. Across the comparison, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the UK (3.6%) and outside the EU and UK (2.7%).
A smaller share of daily speakers of Irish outside education than 99% of Irish towns: 0.3%
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
Some 117 people here, 36% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. The wider picture: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
9.3% said they have no religion, fewer than in 95% of Irish towns
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: 96% of Tinryland · Co. Carlow’s towns 79% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (2.7%), Asian or Asian Irish (0.6%) and Black or Black Irish (0.3%). Measured more widely, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. On residents who said they are Catholic, Tinryland sits higher than 97% of Irish towns: 84%.
Unpaid carers: 10%, a higher share than 99% of Irish towns
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.
Against a figure of 34% across Ireland’s towns, the share of married residents 15 and over in Tinryland comes in at 43%. Unpaid carers: 5.4% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
25% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 76% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Tinryland’s adults, 5.2% went on to postgraduate study and 15% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). By way of comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Tinryland is older than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tinryland | 338 | — | 42.3 | 16% | 53% |
| Carlow | 27,351 | 4.2 km | 36.3 | 12% | 43% |
| Tullow | 5,138 | 10.9 km | 36.2 | 12% | 46% |
| Muinebeag (Bagenalstown) | 2,945 | 12.0 km | 39.8 | 18% | 43% |
| Castledermot | 1,685 | 12.7 km | 36.7 | 13% | 49% |
| Rathvilly | 1,074 | 16.2 km | 37.6 | 13% | 46% |
| Ballylinan | 1,167 | 18.8 km | 36.7 | 9.1% | 57% |
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 Tinryland’s residents
What is the population of Tinryland?
Tinryland had 338 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Tinryland?
The median age is 42.3. 23% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Tinryland?
36% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (117 people), and 0.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Tinryland?
96% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 7.4% were born abroad and 2.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Tinryland?
84% are Catholic, 9.3% have no religion and 6.9% another religion; 1.2% didn’t say.
Is Tinryland good for families?
53% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Tinryland are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Tinryland?
Median gross household income in Tinryland was €63,840 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).