Photo: HunNomad · CC BY-SA 3.0More holiday homes than 99% of Irish towns: 54%
Half of Spanish Point’s residents are over 42.2, older than in 90% of Irish towns. This Co. Clare town had 261 residents in 49 households at the 2022 Census. Here, 93% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. Across Ireland’s towns, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone; locally, 37%.
Faster growth than 54% of Irish towns: Spanish Point changed by +8% since 2016
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.
5.4% of residents are aged 15 to 24, below 99% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 25–29: 13% of residents, 2.2 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Across Spanish Point, 18% of residents are 65 or over. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 84 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 Spanish Point, 6.3% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer than in 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
53% of Spanish Point’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 5.7% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. For Spanish Point, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 11%.
Only 31% of households are parents with children in Spanish Point
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.
Nothing unusual on shared households of unrelated adults: 4.1%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns. Households average 2.3 people.
Fewer car-free households than 99% of Irish towns: 2.3%
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: 4.5% (typical: 7.6%). For comparison, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Broadband: nearly nine in ten households.
Half of households earn more than €42,960 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Before tax, the middle household here has €42,960 a year, 29% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Clare, the figure is €54,650.
Spanish Point ranks below 95% of Irish towns on residents born outside Ireland: 12%
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.
Another language is spoken at home by 5.6%, most often Polish (1.9%); 0.4% speak English not well or not at all. 5.1% of residents are citizens of another country, a lower share than in 98% of Irish towns. The comparison figure for residents born outside Ireland is 22% across Ireland’s towns.
Spanish Point ranks below 99% of Irish towns on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.4%
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
In all, 110 residents aged 3 and over (49%) can speak Irish. The comparison figure for daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
78% of residents said they are Catholic, a share 85% of Irish towns don’t reach
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: 93% of Spanish Point · Co. Clare’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (6.1%), Black or Black Irish (0.4%) and Other, including mixed (0.4%). 15% of residents said they have no religion, a lower share than in 64% of Irish towns. Across the comparison, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Above 98% of Irish towns: 44% 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.
Unpaid carers are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 5.7%. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
More adults with a degree or higher than 94% of Irish towns: 62%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Primary level or earlier: 5.8%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. To put it in context, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Postgraduate: 27% of adults.
Spanish Point is younger than 1 of its 2 nearest neighbours
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish Point | 261 | — | 42.2 | 18% | 31% |
| Lehinch | 1,018 | 11.4 km | 44.1 | 21% | 33% |
| Ennistimon | 1,137 | 13.8 km | 40.5 | 21% | 35% |
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 Spanish Point’s residents
What is the population of Spanish Point?
Spanish Point had 261 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Spanish Point?
The median age is 42.2. 11% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Spanish Point?
49% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (110 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Spanish Point?
93% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 5.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Spanish Point?
78% are Catholic, 15% have no religion and 6.8% another religion; 10% didn’t say.
Is Spanish Point good for families?
31% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 11% of residents are under 18. Schools near Spanish Point are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Spanish Point?
Median gross household income in Spanish Point was €42,960 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).