Photo: Robert Ashby · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 47.7: Ballycotton is older than 99% of Irish towns
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 91%, above 97% of Irish towns. Few places have so few households in flats: 2.4% here, fewer than in 96% of Irish towns. At the 2022 Census Ballycotton was home to 544 people in 212 households. The share of one-person households stands at 28%.
Ballycotton grew +17% from 2016 to 2022, ahead of 84% 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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +7% across Co. Cork’s towns.
In Ballycotton, 8.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 98% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 65 and over: 23% here and 14% across Ireland’s towns. On average, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
Ballycotton ranks below 99% of Irish towns on students among residents 15 and over: 5.8%
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 Ballycotton, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in nearly half of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 13%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Here, 5.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Households of parents with children make up 34% in Ballycotton, less than in 79% 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 2.4 people on average; across Ireland’s towns, 2.7. 3.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. Across Ireland’s towns, households of parents with children come to 43%.
A higher share of holiday homes than 99% of Irish towns, at 23%
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
Most homes are connected: 85% have broadband, and 10% have no internet (typical: 7.6%). As a yardstick, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns. Households without a car or van: 11% of the total.
Before tax, the median household income is €62,320 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
A median gross household income of €62,320 sits close to Ireland (€60,120). That compares with €60,670 across Co. Cork.
12% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 96% 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 figure for residents with another country’s citizenship is 7.4% in Ballycotton and 15% across Ireland’s towns. 6% speak a language other than English at home, French most of all (0.9%); 1% speak English not well or not at all. The wider picture: just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Irish: 42% of Ballycotton’s residents can speak it
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
Top of Co. Cork: Ballincollig, at 2.1%. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 1.2%.
77% of residents said they are Catholic, a share 81% 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: 91% of Ballycotton · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White Irish, the main groups are Other White (7%), Other, including mixed (2.1%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.2%). Against that, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Where 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns, Ballycotton has 18%.
A larger share of married residents 15 and over than 99% of Irish towns: 46%
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.
6.2% of residents give unpaid care, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
41% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, more than in 60% 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 15% of adults here, while 9.9% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Adults with a degree or higher make up 36% across Ireland’s towns.
Every nearby town is younger than Ballycotton
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballycotton | 544 | — | 47.7 | 23% | 34% |
| Cloyne | 1,967 | 8.7 km | 37.7 | 11% | 54% |
| Castlemartyr | 1,603 | 9.7 km | 38.3 | 8.6% | 50% |
| Aghada-Rostellan | 1,159 | 13.8 km | 43.5 | 15% | 48% |
| Midleton | 13,906 | 14.7 km | 37 | 11% | 52% |
| Whitegate | 1,248 | 14.7 km | 36.6 | 7.5% | 60% |
| Youghal | 8,564 | 17.3 km | 42 | 18% | 41% |
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 Ballycotton’s residents
What is the population of Ballycotton?
Ballycotton had 544 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 17% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballycotton?
The median age is 47.7. 20% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballycotton?
42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (205 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballycotton?
91% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 7.4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballycotton?
77% are Catholic, 18% have no religion and 5% another religion; 5.3% didn’t say.
Is Ballycotton good for families?
34% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballycotton are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballycotton?
Median gross household income in Ballycotton was €62,320 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).