Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 1.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Ballyhaise
With a median age of 34.4, Ballyhaise is younger than 85% of Irish towns. 748 residents in 274 households: that is Ballyhaise at the 2022 Census. Census figures put residents with no religion at 5.5% locally. Households in flats make up 2.9%, against 12% across Ireland’s towns.
Since 2016, Ballyhaise has grown +9%, faster than 58% 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 +10% across Co. Cavan’s towns.
Ballyhaise sits below 55% of Irish towns for residents aged 65 and over (13%)
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 0–4: nearly one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns. The census found that just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 in Ballyhaise. Across Ireland’s towns, 14% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cavan 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
Ballyhaise sits below 99% of Irish towns for residents who moved in within the year (2.5%)
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
Workers here lean to caring, leisure and other services: 12%, against a typical 8.3%. Typically, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns. Students among residents 15 and over: 9.9% of the total.
Ballyhaise sits above 71% of Irish towns for households of parents with children (47%)
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.
27% of households are one person living alone; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 24%. Households of parents with children make up 43% across Ireland’s towns. There are 2.8 people in the average household.
Ballyhaise sits below 66% of Irish towns for households without a car or van (14%)
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
Ballyhaise sits close to the norm on holiday homes: 1%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. For households without a car or van, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 17%.
€54,500 a year: the median household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €54,500 a year here, 9% below Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Cavan, the figure is €52,320.
7.9% of residents are citizens of another country, below 88% 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.
Born outside Ireland: 15% of residents, against 22% across Ireland’s towns. 11% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (1.3%); 1.6% speak English not well or not at all.
In Ballyhaise, Irish is spoken by 41% of residents
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
There is little gap on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.9%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Speakers of Irish: 286 residents, 41% of those aged 3 and over.
A larger share of residents who said they are Catholic than 99% of Irish towns: 87%
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: 87% of Ballyhaise · Co. Cavan’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 78%; Ballyhaise has 87%. The benchmark for residents who said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns: 71%. After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (8.9%), Black or Black Irish (3.1%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.8%).
35% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 54% of Irish towns don’t reach
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.
Ballyhaise sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 6%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. To put it in context, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 76% of Irish towns, at 25%
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: 12%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. The benchmark for adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns: 36%. Postgraduate: 10% of adults.
Median age: 5 of the 6 towns around Ballyhaise are older
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 Ballyhaise’s residents
What is the population of Ballyhaise?
Ballyhaise had 748 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballyhaise?
The median age is 34.4. 30% are under 18 and 13% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballyhaise?
41% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (286 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballyhaise?
87% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 7.9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballyhaise?
87% are Catholic, 5.5% have no religion and 7.3% another religion; 2.3% didn’t say.
Is Ballyhaise good for families?
47% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballyhaise are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballyhaise?
Median gross household income in Ballyhaise was €54,500 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).