Photo: N Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 99% of Irish towns: 0.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home
Young people aged 15 to 24 make up 7.3% of residents, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. Ballinspittle has more households of parents with children than 79% of Irish towns, at 50%. At the 2022 Census Ballinspittle was home to 369 people in 136 households. Households in flats: 6.6% of the total.
+7% since 2016: slower than 51% 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 +7% across Co. Cork’s towns.
Older than 78% of Irish towns: half of Ballinspittle is over 39.9
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Compared with 14% across Ireland’s towns, 16% of residents are 65 or over here. No age band is larger than 40–44: 13% of residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 86% of Irish towns, at 4.8%
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 Ballinspittle, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in just over two in five residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 19%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 7.5% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
27% of households are one person living alone, more than in 67% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Cork’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
A household here has 2.7 people on average; across Ireland’s towns, 2.7. On average, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
In Ballinspittle, 6.8% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 88% 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
Internet at home: broadband for 83%, nothing for 12% (typical: 7.6%). At 1.3%, the share of holiday homes is higher than in 88% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 17%.
The median household brings in €64,500 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€64,500 a year before tax puts the median household 7% above Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Cork overall, the median comes to €60,670.
Fewer residents born outside Ireland than 76% of Irish towns: 17%
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.
Against a figure of 15% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship in Ballinspittle comes in at 10%. The share of residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns is 22%. French leads the languages spoken at home (2.7%), among the 13% who speak another language there; 1.9% speak English not well or not at all.
1.8% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, more than in 88% of Irish towns
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
Ballincollig leads Co. Cork with 2.1%. As a yardstick, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 84%, a higher share than 75% 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: 84% of Ballinspittle · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Where 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns, Ballinspittle has 75%. Residents with no religion account for 20%. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 78% across Ireland’s towns.
In Ballinspittle, 36% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 63% of Irish towns
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, at 6%. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of adults with a degree or higher than 51% of Irish towns: 37%
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: 11%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Postgraduate: 16% of adults.
Of the 3 towns nearest Ballinspittle, 1 are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballinspittle | 369 | — | 39.9 | 16% | 50% |
| Kinsale | 5,991 | 6.9 km | 41.8 | 18% | 43% |
| Inishannon | 1,043 | 12.8 km | 38.9 | 11% | 53% |
| Bandon | 8,196 | 13.8 km | 38 | 13% | 46% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Cork’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Cork’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 Ballinspittle’s residents
What is the population of Ballinspittle?
Ballinspittle had 369 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 7% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballinspittle?
The median age is 39.9. 33% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballinspittle?
41% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (140 people), and 1.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballinspittle?
84% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 17% were born abroad and 10% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballinspittle?
75% are Catholic, 20% have no religion and 4.8% another religion; 3.5% didn’t say.
Is Ballinspittle good for families?
50% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 33% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballinspittle are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballinspittle?
Median gross household income in Ballinspittle was €64,500 in 2022, against €60,670 across Co. Cork 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).