Photo: HENRY CLARK · CC BY-SA 2.0Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 58% in Ballyjamesduff, less than in 93% of Irish towns
With a median age of 35.5, Ballyjamesduff is younger than 76% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 2,917 residents and 984 households here. The census found that just over a fifth of households are one person living alone in the town. Just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns, against 9.3% in the town.
What stands out about the people of Ballyjamesduff
More born abroad than anywhere else in Co. Cavan
39% of residents were born abroad, against 24% across Co. Cavan’s towns and 22% across Ireland’s towns. The largest groups were born outside the EU and UK (15%) and elsewhere in the EU (13%); 31% are citizens of another country. Where people were born ↓
A mix of backgrounds
42% of residents describe a background other than White Irish, more than in 93% of Irish towns. The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (30%), Black or Black Irish (5.2%) and Other, including mixed (4%). Ethnicity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Ballyjamesduff grew +10% from 2016 to 2022, faster than 61% 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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +10% across Co. Cavan’s towns.
Above 87% of Irish towns: 15% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 8.7%, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. More residents are 40–44 than any other five-year age: 10% of residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Ballyjamesduff, 35.5. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Cavan 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
More students among residents 15 and over than 62% of Irish towns: 11%
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 Ballyjamesduff, 19% and 28%. At 8.3%, the share of residents who moved in within the year is higher than in 63% of Irish towns.
Larger households than 87% of Irish towns: 3 people on average
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 4%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. Ballyjamesduff has more households of parents with children than 63% of Irish towns, at 45%.
91% of homes are houses
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
Broadband: nearly nine in ten households. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 54% of Irish towns. No internet at all: 8.9% (typical: 7.6%).
€50,360 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.
Half of Ballyjamesduff’s households have a gross income below €50,360 a year, 16% under the median for Ireland (€60,120). Co. Cavan comes in at €52,320 at the median.
In Ballyjamesduff, 39% of residents were born outside Ireland, more than in 92% 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 45%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 45%
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.
Set against 15% across Ireland’s towns, 31% of residents are citizens of another country in Ballyjamesduff. The most common home language after English is Polish (9.1%); in all 39% speak another language, and 12% speak English not well or not at all.
A lower share of daily speakers of Irish outside education than 90% of Irish towns, at 0.6%
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
Irish speakers number 662, or a quarter of residents aged 3 and over. In Co. Cavan, Cavan has the highest share (0.7%). The usual figure: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 79% of Irish towns, at 13%
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: 58% of Ballyjamesduff · Co. Cavan’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (30%), Black or Black Irish (5.2%) and Other, including mixed (4%). Residents with no religion make up 17% across Ireland’s towns. Ballyjamesduff has fewer residents who said they are Catholic than 70% of Irish towns, at 66%.
Ballyjamesduff: 37% of residents 15 and over are married, above 69% 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.
In Ballyjamesduff, 4.3% of residents give unpaid care, beside 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
15% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 96% of Irish towns
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 3.1% 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.
Ranked by age, 9th youngest of 41 towns this size
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Kilbarry is the youngest (30.4); Ballybrack the oldest (45.5). Nearest to Ballyjamesduff in age: Rathangan (35), Kingscourt (35.2), Sixmilebridge (35.6) and Ballynanty (35.7).
Median age: 4 of the 6 towns around Ballyjamesduff 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 Ballyjamesduff’s residents
What is the population of Ballyjamesduff?
Ballyjamesduff had 2,917 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 10% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballyjamesduff?
The median age is 35.5, younger than 76% of Irish towns. 28% are under 18 and 8.7% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballyjamesduff?
25% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (662 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballyjamesduff?
58% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 39% were born abroad and 31% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballyjamesduff?
66% are Catholic, 13% have no religion and 21% another religion; 5.4% didn’t say.
Is Ballyjamesduff good for families?
45% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 28% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballyjamesduff are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballyjamesduff?
Median gross household income in Ballyjamesduff was €50,360 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).