Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 99% of Irish towns: 8.4% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Compared with 4.7% across Ireland’s towns, 1.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home here. Meanwhile, on one-person households, Cootehill sits higher than 98% of Irish towns: 37%. The 2022 Census counted 1,856 residents in 803 households. Residents with no religion: 10% of the total.
Since 2016, Cootehill has changed by +7%, slower than 57% 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 median change is +8%; across Co. Cavan’s towns, +10%.
Half of Cootehill is over 40.6, older than 81% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 40–44, with 7.9% of residents. 18% of residents are 65 or over, a higher share than in 77% of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cavan 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
In Cootehill, 6.1% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer than in 99% 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
By occupation, process, plant and machine operatives are over-represented: 20%, against a typical 7.8%. Fewer residents who moved in within the year than in three fifths of Irish towns: 6.8%. Elsewhere, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Cootehill households average 2.3 people, smaller than in 92% 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.
Households of parents with children make up 37%, against 43% across Ireland’s towns.
Above 74% of Irish towns: 24% of households have no car or van
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
There is little gap on holiday homes: 0.5%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. For Cootehill, the census puts households in flats at 8.1%. As a reference point, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
€39,340 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 Cootehill’s households have a gross income below €39,340 a year, 35% under the median for Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Cavan overall, the median comes to €52,320.
22% of residents were born abroad
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.
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born elsewhere in the EU (10%) and in the UK (5.9%). 15% of residents are citizens of another country, a higher share than in 53% of Irish towns.
In Cootehill, 28% of residents can speak Irish
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: 0.8%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Irish speakers number 483, or 28% of residents aged 3 and over.
82% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 94% 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: 80% of Cootehill · Co. Cavan’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White Irish come Other White (14%), Other, including mixed (2.2%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.8%). As a reference point, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Four in five residents describe themselves as White Irish, a higher share than in 56% of Irish towns.
In Cootehill, 33% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 63% 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.
On the census count, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care. The usual figure: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
17% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 94% of Irish towns
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, 9.7% of adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Cootehill, 19%, and 5.1% hold a postgraduate qualification. As a reference point, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Cootehill 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cootehill | 1,856 | — | 40.6 | 18% | 37% |
| Ballybay | 1,329 | 13.4 km | 37.2 | 13% | 41% |
| Clones | 1,885 | 15.9 km | 39.5 | 19% | 37% |
| Bailieborough | 2,974 | 18.7 km | 38.2 | 15% | 43% |
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 Cootehill’s residents
What is the population of Cootehill?
Cootehill had 1,856 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 7% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Cootehill?
The median age is 40.6. 23% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Cootehill?
28% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (483 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Cootehill?
80% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 22% were born abroad and 15% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Cootehill?
82% are Catholic, 10% have no religion and 8.2% another religion; 4% didn’t say.
Is Cootehill good for families?
37% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Cootehill are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Cootehill?
Median gross household income in Cootehill was €39,340 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).