Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0More people live alone than in 98% of Irish towns: 39% of households
Households of parents with children: 34%, below 79% of Irish towns. Across Belturbet, 26% of households have no car or van. Half of the town’s residents are over 39.4, older than in 71% of Irish towns. There were 736 households here at the 2022 Census, home to 1,610 residents.
From 2016 to 2022, Belturbet outgrew 84% of Irish towns: +17%
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 median change is +8%; across Co. Cavan’s towns, +10%.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.6%, a lower share than 97% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 18%, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. The biggest five-year age group is 35–39, with 8.3% of residents.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Cavan 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
A lower share of students among residents 15 and over than 98% of Irish towns, at 7.3%
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
27% of Belturbet’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 20% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 7.6% locally.
Smaller households than 95% of Irish towns: 2.2 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.
The share of shared households of unrelated adults is 3%, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns.
Belturbet ranks above 91% of Irish towns on holiday homes: 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
Compared with 12% across Ireland’s towns, 18% of households live in a flat or apartment here. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of holiday homes is 0.2%.
€33,700 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.
€33,700 a year before tax puts the median household 44% below Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Cavan, the middle household has €52,320.
A larger share of residents born outside Ireland than 84% of Irish towns: 31%
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 40%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 40%
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.
By its share of residents with another country’s citizenship (21%), Belturbet is above just over three quarters of Irish towns. To put it in context, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. 24% speak another language at home, most often Polish (5%); 4.2% speak English not well or not at all.
Only 0.4% of residents speak Irish daily outside education in Belturbet
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
The ability to speak Irish extends to 462 residents (32% of those aged 3 and over). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1%.
Only 71% of residents describe themselves as White Irish in Belturbet
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: 71% of Belturbet · Co. Cavan’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 14%, below 74% of Irish towns. Elsewhere, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, just over two thirds of residents said they are Catholic.
Belturbet sits below 73% of Irish towns for married residents 15 and over (31%)
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.
Census figures put unpaid carers at 5.5% in Belturbet. 54% of the town’s residents 15 and over are single and 31% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
Belturbet ranks below 87% of Irish towns on 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
Across Ireland’s towns, one in ten adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Belturbet, 14%, and 5.3% hold a postgraduate qualification. The usual figure: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Nearby, 1 of 4 towns have older populations than Belturbet
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belturbet | 1,610 | — | 39.4 | 18% | 34% |
| Ballyconnell | 1,422 | 9.0 km | 36.4 | 13% | 43% |
| Cavan | 11,741 | 12.9 km | 36.1 | 12% | 44% |
| Clones | 1,885 | 16.4 km | 39.5 | 19% | 37% |
| Ballinagh | 1,012 | 18.9 km | 34.2 | 9.7% | 50% |
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 Belturbet’s residents
What is the population of Belturbet?
Belturbet had 1,610 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 17% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Belturbet?
The median age is 39.4. 22% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Belturbet?
32% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (462 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Belturbet?
71% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 31% were born abroad and 21% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Belturbet?
68% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 18% another religion; 5% didn’t say.
Is Belturbet good for families?
34% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Belturbet are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Belturbet?
Median gross household income in Belturbet was €33,700 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).