Photo: John Baker · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 14.1: Ballyvaughan is younger than 99% of Irish towns
Households average 2 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Census day 2022: 361 residents and 74 households in Ballyvaughan. Holiday homes: just over a quarter of the total. One-person households are more common here than in 98% of Irish towns.
Growth of +58% since 2016 puts Ballyvaughan ahead of 99% 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. Clare’s towns, +8%.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 5.8%, a lower share than 99% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 5–9 than any other five-year age: just over a fifth of residents, 3.1 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Higher than in three fifths of Irish towns: 15% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
68% women, 32% men
About 48 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Clare 51.5%, Ireland 51.2%.
Ballyvaughan ranks below 85% of Irish towns on residents who moved in within the year: 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
Just over a fifth of Ballyvaughan’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 5.8% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
1.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, below 99% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Clare’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
By its share of households of parents with children (26%), Ballyvaughan is below 89% of Irish towns. The share of shared households of unrelated adults across Ireland’s towns is 4.7%.
Ballyvaughan sits above 65% of Irish towns for households without a car or van (21%)
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
66% of households are on broadband; 16% have no internet connection (typical: 7.6%). Typically, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Census figures put households in flats at 11% in Ballyvaughan.
Household income at the median: €45,330 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of households are below €45,330 a year before tax: 25% under the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Clare as a whole, the figure is €54,650.
Ballyvaughan ranks above 99% of Irish towns on residents born outside Ireland: 63%
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 75%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 75%
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.
Residents with another country’s citizenship make up 60%, against 15% across Ireland’s towns. Another language is spoken at home by 6.7%, most often French (1.7%); 1.4% speak English not well or not at all. For residents born outside Ireland, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 22%.
Of Ballyvaughan’s residents, 40% 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
73 residents, 40% of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
Residents with no religion: 19%, a higher share than 63% 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 Ballyvaughan · Co. Clare’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (15%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.4%) and Other, including mixed (2.4%). As a yardstick, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Ballyvaughan has more residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 57% of Irish towns, at 80%. At 71%, the share of residents who said they are Catholic is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns.
22% of residents 15 and over are married, below 98% 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.
Unpaid carers make up 4.7%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
Ballyvaughan ranks above 70% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 45%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, 14% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 8.5% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Every neighbour of Ballyvaughan has an older population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyvaughan | 361 | — | 14.1 | 15% | 26% |
| Bearna | 2,336 | 15.3 km | 42.4 | 16% | 48% |
| Salthill | 5,445 | 17.1 km | 40.4 | 20% | 27% |
| Knocknacarra | 18,398 | 17.1 km | 38 | 11% | 44% |
| Claddagh | 2,755 | 17.8 km | 38.9 | 20% | 23% |
| Taylor's Hill | 3,141 | 18.0 km | 31.8 | 14% | 36% |
| Newcastle | 4,032 | 18.9 km | 42.5 | 28% | 24% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Clare’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Clare’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 Ballyvaughan’s residents
What is the population of Ballyvaughan?
Ballyvaughan had 361 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 58% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballyvaughan?
The median age is 14.1. 53% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballyvaughan?
40% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (73 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballyvaughan?
80% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 63% were born abroad and 60% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballyvaughan?
71% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 9.7% another religion; 49% didn’t say.
Is Ballyvaughan good for families?
26% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 53% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballyvaughan are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballyvaughan?
Median gross household income in Ballyvaughan was €45,330 in 2022, against €54,650 across Co. Clare 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).