Photo: barry gormley · Public domainIn Arvagh, 4.2% of homes are holiday homes, more than in 94% of Irish towns
Against a figure of 14% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents aged 65 and over in Arvagh comes in at 19%. Its 181 households held 419 residents at the 2022 Census. One-person households account for 35%. At 77%, the share of residents who said they are Catholic is higher than in just over four fifths of Irish towns.
+1% since 2016, a pace below 89% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, the typical town changed +8%; across Co. Cavan’s towns, +10%.
A median age of 39.9: Arvagh is older than 78% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 35–39: nearly one in ten residents. Arvagh has fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 56% of Irish towns, at 12%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cavan 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
5.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 85% 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
The figure for students among residents 15 and over is 8.9% in Arvagh and 10% across Ireland’s towns. For residents who moved in within the year, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 7.5%.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 2.2%, a lower share than 93% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Cavan’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
At 2.4 people, the average household compares with 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Few places have so few households of parents with children: 35% here, fewer than in 78% of Irish towns. Shared households of unrelated adults make up 4.7% across Ireland’s towns.
Households in flats: 14%, a higher share than 60% 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
Connected households: 83% on broadband; 15% offline (typical: 7.6%). Typically, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. In one household in 6 there is no car or van.
€47,020 a year is the median household income here
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 €47,020 a year, 22% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Cavan, the figure is €52,320.
14% of residents are citizens of another country, below 58% 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.
The most common home language after English is Polish (1%); in all 15% speak another language, and 4.3% speak English not well or not at all. On residents born outside Ireland, Arvagh sits higher than half of Irish towns: 22%.
Irish speakers make up 32% of Arvagh
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
Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. No town in Co. Cavan beats Cavan (0.7%).
A smaller share of residents with no religion than 89% of Irish towns: 11%
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: 80% of Arvagh · Co. Cavan’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (15%), Other, including mixed (2.8%) and Asian or Asian Irish (2%). On residents who describe themselves as White Irish, Arvagh sits higher than 57% of Irish towns: 80%. Measured more widely, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer married residents 15 and over than 63% of Irish towns: 33%
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.
Unpaid carers are more common here than in 55% of Irish towns. To put it in context, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Arvagh sits below 87% of Irish towns for adults with a degree or higher (21%)
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate qualifications are held by 3.8% of adults here, while 13% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Against that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Around Arvagh, 1 of 5 towns have a higher median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Cavan’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Cavan’s towns of 2,500 or more and over 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 Arvagh’s residents
What is the population of Arvagh?
Arvagh had 419 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Arvagh?
The median age is 39.9. 23% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Arvagh?
32% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (125 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Arvagh?
80% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 22% were born abroad and 14% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Arvagh?
77% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 12% another religion; 6% didn’t say.
Is Arvagh good for families?
35% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Arvagh are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Arvagh?
Median gross household income in Arvagh was €47,020 in 2022, against €52,320 across Co. Cavan 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).