Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Bridebridge ranks below 98% of Irish towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 9%
Just over nine in ten residents said they are Catholic, against 71% across Ireland’s towns. Census day 2022: 223 residents and 88 households in Bridebridge. The share of one-person households stands at 31%. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
From 2016 to 2022, 56% of Irish towns grew faster than Bridebridge: +7%
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%.
A median age of 39.5: Bridebridge is older than 73% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
In Bridebridge, 16% of residents are 65 or over, beside 14% across Ireland’s towns. The largest age band is 35–39: just over one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 119 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
In Bridebridge, 5.6% 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
Just over a fifth of Bridebridge’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 25% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 2.7%.
Bridebridge sits below 66% of Irish towns for households of parents with children (40%)
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 average household has 2.6 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Households of parents with children: 43% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. Here, 4.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
100% of homes are houses
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 92%; 8.4% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). 17% of households have no car or van. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
€66,970 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.
Half of Bridebridge’s households have a gross income above €66,970 a year, 11% above the median for Ireland (€60,120). County median: €60,670 (Co. Cork).
Fewer residents born abroad than 98% of Irish towns: 8.5%
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.
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the UK (4%) and in Poland (2.7%). At 5.2%, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship is lower than in 98% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, residents born outside Ireland come to 22%.
Irish: 44% of Bridebridge’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
Irish speakers number 87, or 44% of residents aged 3 and over. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
No religion: 8% of residents, a lower share than 99% 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: 92% of Bridebridge · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (3.4%), Other, including mixed (3.4%) and Black or Black Irish (1%). Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White Irish are common here: 92%, more than in 98% of Irish towns. On average, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of married residents 15 and over than 66% of Irish towns: 36%
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.
At 4.5%, the share of unpaid carers is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns. To put it in context, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
20% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 88% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Across Ireland’s towns, 9.7% of adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Bridebridge, 13%, and 7.9% hold a postgraduate qualification. Typically, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
1 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Bridebridge
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridebridge | 223 | — | 39.5 | 16% | 40% |
| Rathcormac | 1,957 | 3.9 km | 34.7 | 5.2% | 57% |
| Fermoy | 6,720 | 7.4 km | 38.9 | 14% | 42% |
| Kilworth | 1,179 | 10.7 km | 36.3 | 12% | 51% |
| Watergrasshill | 1,840 | 11.4 km | 33.1 | 4.6% | 62% |
| Tallow | 1,022 | 15.4 km | 42.2 | 18% | 42% |
| Midleton | 13,906 | 18.7 km | 37 | 11% | 52% |
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 Bridebridge’s residents
What is the population of Bridebridge?
Bridebridge had 223 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 7% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Bridebridge?
The median age is 39.5. 22% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Bridebridge?
44% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (87 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Bridebridge?
92% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 8.5% were born abroad and 5.2% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Bridebridge?
91% are Catholic, 8% have no religion and 1.5% another religion; 9.9% didn’t say.
Is Bridebridge good for families?
40% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Bridebridge are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Bridebridge?
Median gross household income in Bridebridge was €66,970 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).