Photo: DuhallowContributor · CC BY-SA 4.0Only 8.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Boherbue
17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns, against 8.8% in Boherbue. Few places have so few households in flats: 1.7% here, fewer than in 98% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 422 residents and 178 households locally. In Boherbue, 31% of households are one person living alone.
Faster growth than 92% of Irish towns: Boherbue changed by +22% 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.
The median across Ireland’s towns is +8%, and across Co. Cork’s towns +7%.
Boherbue sits above 84% of Irish towns for residents aged 65 and over (19%)
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 40–44: 8.5% of residents. The median age in Boherbue is 39.6, higher than in 75% of Irish towns. As a reference point, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Montenotte, the oldest of Co. Cork’s towns by this measure, it is 25%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Below 97% of Irish towns: 7.5% of residents 15 and over are students
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
The share of residents who moved in within the year tops 92% of Irish towns: 15%. By occupation, skilled trades are over-represented: 20%, against a typical 11%.
1.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, below 98% 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.
The typical household size is 2.4 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns. Households of parents with children: two fifths of the total.
Holiday homes: 1.9%, a higher share than 91% 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
Just over four in five households are on broadband; 14% have no internet connection (typical: 7.6%). Locally, 13% of households have no car or van. On average, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns.
€51,990 a year: where the middle household sits
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 €51,990 a year, 14% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Cork as a whole, the figure is €60,670.
Residents with another country’s citizenship make up 18% in Boherbue, more than in 67% 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.
Residents born abroad were most often born in Poland (8.6%), then in the UK (4.3%). To put it in context, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Nearly a quarter of residents were born abroad, against 19% across Co. Cork’s towns and 22% across Ireland’s towns.
In Boherbue, 38% 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
Irish speakers number 151, or 38% of residents aged 3 and over. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 1%.
Boherbue: 85% of residents said they are Catholic, above 98% 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: 76% of Boherbue · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
76% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, against 81% across Co. Cork’s towns and 78% across Ireland’s towns. The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (17%), Asian or Asian Irish (4.1%) and Black or Black Irish (2.9%). Across Ireland’s towns, 71% of residents said they are Catholic.
Boherbue ranks above 92% of Irish towns on unpaid carers: 6.6%
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.
Married residents 15 and over: 36% here and 34% across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
Below 75% of Irish towns: 26% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher
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 5.9% of adults here, while 11% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). On average, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Median age: 2 of the 3 towns around Boherbue are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boherbue | 422 | — | 39.6 | 19% | 40% |
| Newmarket | 1,052 | 7.2 km | 48.6 | 28% | 33% |
| Kanturk | 2,803 | 10.5 km | 37.9 | 16% | 44% |
| Millstreet | 1,722 | 11.3 km | 41.3 | 18% | 38% |
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 Boherbue’s residents
What is the population of Boherbue?
Boherbue had 422 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 22% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Boherbue?
The median age is 39.6. 24% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Boherbue?
38% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (151 people), and 1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Boherbue?
76% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 23% were born abroad and 18% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Boherbue?
85% are Catholic, 8.8% have no religion and 6.2% another religion; 0.7% didn’t say.
Is Boherbue good for families?
40% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 24% of residents are under 18. Schools near Boherbue are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Boherbue?
Median gross household income in Boherbue was €51,990 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).