Only 0.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Crusheen
Set against 43% across Ireland’s towns, 55% of households are parents with children in Crusheen. Four in five residents said they are Catholic. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. The town had 649 residents in 230 households at the 2022 Census.
Since 2016, Crusheen has grown +14%, faster than 80% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +8% across Co. Clare’s towns.
Fewer young people than 99% of Irish towns: 7.7% are 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 5–9: 12% of residents, 1.7 times the share across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 7.4% of residents are 65 or over. Half of Crusheen’s residents are under 35.4, younger than in just over three quarters of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Clare 51.5%, Ireland 51.2%.
8.3% of residents 15 and over are students, below 90% 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
Just over half of Crusheen’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 10% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Few places have as many residents who moved in within the year: 9.9% here, more than in 75% of Irish towns.
Bigger households than 69% of Irish towns: 2.8 people each on average
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.
21% of households are one person living alone (Ireland’s towns: 24%).
A lower share of households without a car or van than 99% of Irish towns, at 3.1%
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
91% have broadband at home and 6.3% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Typically, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
Household income at the median: €71,720 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €71,720 a year before tax, the median household income is 19% above that of Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Clare as a whole, the figure is €54,650.
In Crusheen, 15% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 85% 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 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.
8.9% of residents are citizens of another country; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 15%. Set beside that, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in the UK (6.4%), then outside the EU and UK (4.5%).
Able to speak Irish: 56% in Crusheen
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
Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.2%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. Some 336 people here, 56% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish.
Above 86% of Irish towns: 87% of residents describe themselves as White Irish
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: 87% of Crusheen · Co. Clare’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (8%), Other, including mixed (2.5%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.6%). Fewer residents with no religion than in 62% of Irish towns: 15%. The share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns is 78%.
More unpaid carers than 99% of Irish towns: 7.4%
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.
Compared with 34% across Ireland’s towns, 36% of residents 15 and over are married here. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 5.4%.
Crusheen sits above 71% of Irish towns for adults with a degree or higher (46%)
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Crusheen’s adults, 19% went on to postgraduate study and 3.3% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). For comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
The towns around Crusheen are all 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. 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 Crusheen’s residents
What is the population of Crusheen?
Crusheen had 649 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 14% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Crusheen?
The median age is 35.4. 33% are under 18 and 7.4% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Crusheen?
56% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (336 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Crusheen?
87% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 8.9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Crusheen?
80% are Catholic, 15% have no religion and 4.4% another religion; 2% didn’t say.
Is Crusheen good for families?
55% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 33% of residents are under 18. Schools near Crusheen are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Crusheen?
Median gross household income in Crusheen was €71,720 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).