Photo: The Banner · CC BY-SA 4.0Households of parents with children: 61%, a higher share than 99% of Irish towns
One-person households make up 15%, against 24% across Ireland’s towns. Residents with no religion account for 5.1%. On residents aged 65 and over, Lissycasey sits lower than 81% of Irish towns: 9.5%. Its 120 households held 390 residents at the 2022 Census.
Lissycasey changed by +5% from 2016 to 2022, behind 65% 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.
Lissycasey is younger than 66% of Irish towns: a median age of 36.4
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 10–14: 13% of residents, 1.8 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 are more common here 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%.
A larger share of students among residents 15 and over than 90% of Irish towns: 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
In Lissycasey, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 56% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 8.5%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year are rarer here than in 95% of Irish towns.
Bigger households than 97% of Irish towns: 3.2 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
Lissycasey sits below 99% of Irish towns for households without a car or van (1.7%)
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
Against a figure of 0.2% across Ireland’s towns, the share of holiday homes in Lissycasey comes in at 2.3%. For households without a car or van, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 17%.
Household income at the median: €64,990 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€64,990 a year before tax puts the median household 8% above Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Clare overall, the median comes to €54,650.
In Lissycasey, 7.5% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 98% 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.
The largest groups were born in the UK (5.4%) and in Poland (1%). Lissycasey has fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than 99% of Irish towns, at 2.6%. To put it in context, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
In Lissycasey, 59% of residents 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
Some 220 people here, 59% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. In Co. Clare, Ennis has the highest share (1.6%). There is little gap on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.8%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 99% of Irish towns: 97%
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: 97% of Lissycasey · Co. Clare’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who said they are Catholic is 94% in Lissycasey and 71% across Ireland’s towns. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns: 78%.
Above 96% of Irish towns: 43% of residents 15 and over are married
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.
Across Ireland’s towns, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care; in Lissycasey, 6.4%. Typically, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Lissycasey ranks below 54% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 35%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
17% of residents 15 and over are still in education. Typically, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. At the top, 9.9% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 6% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
The towns around Lissycasey are all older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lissycasey | 390 | — | 36.4 | 9.5% | 61% |
| Ennis | 27,923 | 14.3 km | 39.3 | 15% | 42% |
| Newmarket-On-Fergus | 1,887 | 16.4 km | 38.8 | 15% | 45% |
| Shannon | 10,256 | 18.4 km | 38.5 | 15% | 44% |
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 Lissycasey’s residents
What is the population of Lissycasey?
Lissycasey had 390 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Lissycasey?
The median age is 36.4. 33% are under 18 and 9.5% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Lissycasey?
59% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (220 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Lissycasey?
97% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 7.5% were born abroad and 2.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Lissycasey?
94% are Catholic, 5.1% have no religion and 1.3% another religion; 0.3% didn’t say.
Is Lissycasey good for families?
61% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 33% of residents are under 18. Schools near Lissycasey are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Lissycasey?
Median gross household income in Lissycasey was €64,990 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).