Photo: Graham Horn · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Broadford is over 43.6, older than 95% of Irish towns
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who said they are Catholic is 71%; Broadford has 88%. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. The town had 294 residents in 105 households at the 2022 Census. The share of shared households of unrelated adults stands at 1%.
Broadford’s population changed by +11% since 2016, more than in 69% 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%.
Broadford: 16% of residents are aged 15 to 24, above 92% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Set against 14% across Ireland’s towns, 16% of residents are 65 or over in Broadford. To put it in context, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Clare 51.5%, Ireland 51.2%.
Broadford sits above 88% of Irish towns for students among residents 15 and over (14%)
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
41% of Broadford’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. For Broadford, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 4.5%.
Above 75% of Irish towns: 49% of households are parents with children
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.
22% of households are one person living alone, against 24% across Ireland’s towns. There are 2.8 people in the average household. Across the comparison, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
Households without a car or van make up 5% in Broadford, less than in 96% of Irish towns
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
No internet at all: 17% (typical: 7.6%). About one household in 20 lives without a car or van. More holiday homes than in nearly four fifths of Irish towns: 0.8%.
€67,420 a year: where the middle household sits
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €67,420 a year before tax, the median household income is 12% above that of Ireland (€60,120). Co. Clare comes in at €54,650 at the median.
Only 8.2% of residents were born outside Ireland in Broadford
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.
The most common home language after English is French (4.1%); in all 7.6% speak another language, and 0.7% speak English not well or not at all. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents born outside Ireland is 22%. Compared with other places, residents with another country’s citizenship are scarce here: 3.1%, fewer than in 99% of Irish towns.
More daily speakers of Irish outside education than 88% of Irish towns: 1.8%
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 146, or 51% of residents aged 3 and over. Typically, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
In Broadford, 7.2% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 99% 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: 96% of Broadford · Co. Clare’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 78%; Broadford has 96%. The share of residents with no religion across Ireland’s towns is 17%.
39% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 83% 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.
7.1% of residents give unpaid care, against 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher: 26%, a lower share than 76% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Among residents 15 and over, 17% are still studying. The benchmark for adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns: 36%. Of Broadford’s adults, 8.7% went on to postgraduate study and 11% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns).
Broadford sits below 1 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadford | 294 | — | 43.6 | 16% | 49% |
| Ardnacrusha | 1,229 | 10.9 km | 44 | 14% | 61% |
| Sixmilebridge | 2,832 | 11.9 km | 35.6 | 8.6% | 55% |
| Killaloe | 1,666 | 12.6 km | 41 | 19% | 37% |
| Ballina | 2,959 | 13.5 km | 39.6 | 11% | 54% |
| Castleconnell | 2,488 | 14.0 km | 38.5 | 14% | 50% |
| Westbury | 3,636 | 14.0 km | 38.5 | 14% | 51% |
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 Broadford’s residents
What is the population of Broadford?
Broadford had 294 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 11% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Broadford?
The median age is 43.6. 21% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Broadford?
51% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (146 people), and 1.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Broadford?
96% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 8.2% were born abroad and 3.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Broadford?
88% are Catholic, 7.2% have no religion and 4.8% another religion; 1.4% didn’t say.
Is Broadford good for families?
49% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 21% of residents are under 18. Schools near Broadford are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Broadford?
Median gross household income in Broadford was €67,420 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).