Photo: GenesisNZ · CC BY-SA 4.011% of homes are holiday homes, more than in 99% of Irish towns
The median age in Ennistimon is 40.5, higher than in 81% of Irish towns. This Co. Clare town counted 1,137 residents and 436 households at the 2022 Census. For Ennistimon, the census puts households of parents with children at 35%. Households in Ennistimon hold 2.3 people on average (Ireland’s towns: 2.7).
What stands out about the people of Ennistimon
One home in 9 is a holiday home
About 70 of 590 homes were empty holiday homes on Census night (11%), more than in 99% of Irish towns; 12% were vacant. Homes & cars ↓
Many older residents
21% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 92% of Irish towns; 4.1% are 80 or over, and 40% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Many carers
About 80 residents (7.2%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 97% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
From 2016 to 2022, Ennistimon outgrew 52% of Irish towns: +8%
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.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 21% in Ennistimon, more than in 92% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 35–39: 8.4% of residents. On average, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. Just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 66% of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Clare 51.5%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
In Ennistimon, 8.7% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer than in 82% 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
32% of Ennistimon’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 16% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 7.3% of the total.
Above 99% of Irish towns: 40% of households are one person living alone
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 3.9%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
In Ennistimon, 22% of households have no car or van, more than in 71% 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
Across Ireland’s towns, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment; in Ennistimon, 15%. Broadband: just over four in five households. Every 4th household or so has no car or van.
Half of households earn more than €42,840 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €42,840 a year here, 29% below Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Clare the median is €54,650.
24% of residents were born outside Ireland, a share 59% of Irish towns don’t reach
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.
At home, 19% use another language, chiefly Polish (5.9%), and 2.7% speak English not well or not at all. By way of comparison, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. The figure for residents with another country’s citizenship is 16% in Ennistimon and 15% across Ireland’s towns.
Irish speakers: 38% of Ennistimon’s residents
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
Some 405 people here, 38% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. In Co. Clare, Ennis has the highest share (1.6%). Nothing unusual on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.2%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns.
Above 69% of Irish towns: 21% of residents said they have no religion
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: 76% of Ennistimon · Co. Clare’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White Irish, the main groups are Other White (12%), Other, including mixed (6.5%) and Irish Traveller (2.8%). For residents with no religion, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 17%. Fewer residents who said they are Catholic than in 65% of Irish towns: 68%. Compared with 78% across Ireland’s towns, 76% of residents describe themselves as White Irish here.
A larger share of unpaid carers than 97% of Irish towns: 7.2%
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.
Against a figure of 34% across Ireland’s towns, the share of married residents 15 and over in Ennistimon comes in at 30%. For comparison, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
30% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 64% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate qualifications are held by 9.9% of adults here, while 9.9% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). The wider picture: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
The places around Ennistimon
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ennistimon | 1,137 | — | 40.5 | 21% | 35% |
| Lehinch | 1,018 | 3.2 km | 44.1 | 21% | 33% |
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 Ennistimon’s residents
What is the population of Ennistimon?
Ennistimon had 1,137 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ennistimon?
The median age is 40.5. 20% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ennistimon?
38% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (405 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ennistimon?
76% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 24% were born abroad and 16% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ennistimon?
68% are Catholic, 21% have no religion and 11% another religion; 4.5% didn’t say.
Is Ennistimon good for families?
35% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ennistimon are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ennistimon?
Median gross household income in Ennistimon was €42,840 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).