Photo: Steve Ford Elliott · CC BY 2.0A median age of 43.6: Feakle is older than 95% of Irish towns
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. The 2022 Census counted 134 residents in 57 households. 94% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. Shared households of unrelated adults: 18% here and 4.7% across Ireland’s towns.
Since 2016, Feakle has grown +25%, faster than 94% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +8% across Co. Clare’s towns.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 6.7% in Feakle, less than in 99% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
55–59 is the most common age band: 9.7% of residents, 1.8 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Higher than in 92% of Irish towns: 21% of residents are 65 or over. Against that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 81 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.
3.8% of residents 15 and over are students, below 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
Just over a fifth of Feakle’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 13% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 3% here.
Households here average 2.3 people, below 89% 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.
30% of households are one person living alone (Ireland’s towns: 24%). The share of households of parents with children stands at 35%.
In Feakle, 1.6% of homes are holiday homes, more than in 90% 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
By its share of households without a car or van (15%), Feakle is below 64% of Irish towns. For comparison, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns.
Before tax, the median household income is €36,540 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €36,540 a year before tax, the median household income is 39% under that of Ireland (€60,120). Countywide in Co. Clare, the median is €54,650.
10% born outside Ireland, fewer than in 97% 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.
Residents born abroad were most often born in the UK (4.5%), then outside the EU and UK (3.7%). 6.8% of residents are citizens of another country, a lower share than in 95% of Irish towns. By way of comparison, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Can speak Irish: 44% of Feakle’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
Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. The ability to speak Irish extends to 40 residents (44% of those aged 3 and over).
In Feakle, 78% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 84% 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: 94% of Feakle · Co. Clare’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
By its share of residents with no religion (19%), Feakle is above 59% of Irish towns. Across the comparison, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Feakle ranks below 82% of Irish towns on unpaid carers: 4.5%
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.
Census figures put married residents 15 and over at 34% in Feakle. The wider picture: 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
31% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 62% 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 7.4% of adults here, while 15% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Across the comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Every neighbour of Feakle has a younger population
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 Feakle’s residents
What is the population of Feakle?
Feakle had 134 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 25% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Feakle?
The median age is 43.6. 24% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Feakle?
44% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (40 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Feakle?
94% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 10% were born abroad and 6.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Feakle?
78% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 3.2% another religion; 30% didn’t say.
Is Feakle good for families?
35% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 24% of residents are under 18. Schools near Feakle are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Feakle?
Median gross household income in Feakle was €36,540 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).