Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0In Ballyvolane, 54% of households are parents with children, more than in 90% of Irish towns
In Ballyvolane, 15% of households are one person living alone, beside 24% across Ireland’s towns. The neighbourhood counted 8,707 residents and 2,893 households at the 2022 Census. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 89% of the total. Households without a car or van are rarer here than in 92% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Ballyvolane
A neighbourhood of families
43% of households are couples with children and 11% lone parents with children, more than in 90% of Irish towns; 21% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Many carers
About 590 residents (6.8%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 95% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Half of Ballyvolane is over 38.4, older than 59% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The figure for residents aged 15 to 24 is 13% in Ballyvolane and 12% across Ireland’s towns. The biggest five-year age group is 40–44, with nearly one in ten residents. Residents aged 65 and over are rarer here than in 58% of Irish towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Ballyvolane, 38.4. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 4.4% in Ballyvolane, less than in 92% 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
Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Ballyvolane, 43% and 15%. Against that, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
3 people per household, more than in 87% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; in Ballyvolane, 2.7%.
Ballyvolane ranks below 88% of Irish towns on households in flats: 5%
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
The share of households with broadband is 91%; 5.6% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). On the census count, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes. The wider picture: 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
Household income, middle of the range: €73,840 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €73,840 a year before tax, the median household income is 23% above that of Ireland (€60,120). Co. Cork as a whole has a median of €60,670.
12% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 95% 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 (3.8%) and outside the EU and UK (3.1%). On average, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Few places have so few residents with another country’s citizenship: 6.9% here, fewer than in 95% of Irish towns.
1.7% of Ballyvolane’s residents use Irish every day outside education
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
The highest share in Co. Cork belongs to Ballincollig (2.1%). Across the comparison, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns. Irish speakers number 3,679, or 46% of residents aged 3 and over.
A higher share of residents who said they are Catholic than 93% of Irish towns, at 81%
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: 89% of Ballyvolane · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns, against 14% in Ballyvolane. Against that, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (6.6%), Asian or Asian Irish (1.8%) and Other, including mixed (1.4%).
A larger share of married residents 15 and over than 88% of Irish towns: 40%
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.
The share of unpaid carers is 6.8%, against 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. Typically, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Only 35% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher in Ballyvolane
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, just over one in ten adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 7.2% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Adults with a degree or higher: 36% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
Of 41 towns its size (7,526 to 10,077 people), the 21st oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Grand Canal Dock (32.1) and the oldest Dalkey (50.3). Nearest to Ballyvolane in age: Tuam (38.1), Nenagh (38.4), Waterford City Centre (38.8) and Trim (38.9).
Around Ballyvolane, 4 of 6 towns have a higher median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyvolane | 8,707 | — | 38.4 | 13% | 54% |
| Mayfield | 2,846 | 1.6 km | 39.3 | 17% | 43% |
| Tivoli | 4,449 | 2.2 km | 41.1 | 18% | 34% |
| Montenotte | 4,113 | 2.4 km | 46.5 | 25% | 33% |
| The Glen | 6,119 | 2.5 km | 40.6 | 20% | 42% |
| Riverstown | 3,664 | 2.5 km | 37.1 | 8.3% | 58% |
| Glanmire | 4,454 | 2.8 km | 34.8 | 6.7% | 58% |
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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas
Questions about Ballyvolane’s residents
What is the population of Ballyvolane?
Ballyvolane had 8,707 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood.
What is the average age in Ballyvolane?
The median age is 38.4, older than 59% of Irish towns. 26% are under 18 and 13% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballyvolane?
46% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (3,679 people), and 1.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballyvolane?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 6.9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballyvolane?
81% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 5% another religion; 4% didn’t say.
Is Ballyvolane good for families?
54% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballyvolane are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballyvolane?
Median gross household income in Ballyvolane was €73,840 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 · Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas. 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).