Photo: john salter · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 96% of Irish towns: 9% of residents said they have no religion
Households in flats make up 5.3%, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. Compared with other places, residents aged 65 and over are common here: 19%, more than in 87% of Irish towns. 684 residents in 209 households: that is Churchtown at the 2022 Census. Locally, 2.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
From 2016 to 2022, Churchtown outgrew 65% of Irish towns: +10%
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.
For comparison, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +7% across Co. Cork’s towns.
A median age of 37: Churchtown is younger than 58% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
With residents aged 15 to 24 at 11%, Churchtown is behind three quarters of Irish towns on that count. 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
53% women, 47% men
About 88 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.
A higher share of residents who moved in within the year than 78% of Irish towns, at 11%
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 Churchtown, 36% and 15%. By way of comparison, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
50% of households are parents with children, a share 78% of Irish towns don’t reach
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.
Compared with 24% across Ireland’s towns, 22% of households are one person living alone here. On average, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns. Each household has 2.9 people on average.
Households without a car or van make up 8.5% in Churchtown, less than in 82% 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
86% have broadband at home and 9.1% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Across Ireland’s towns, households without a car or van come to 17%. The share of holiday homes stands at 0.4%.
The middle household earns €55,490 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€55,490 a year before tax puts the median household 8% below Ireland (€60,120). Co. Cork comes in at €60,670 at the median.
Only 15% of residents were born outside Ireland in Churchtown
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 India (5.4%) and elsewhere in the EU (3.4%). Typically, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. 12% of residents are citizens of another country, a lower share than in 68% of Irish towns.
A smaller share of daily speakers of Irish outside education than 96% of Irish towns: 0.5%
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
Some 205 people here, just over a third of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. As a yardstick, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns. The highest share in Co. Cork belongs to Ballincollig (2.1%).
Churchtown ranks above 91% of Irish towns on residents who said they are Catholic: 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: 84% of Churchtown · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White Irish are Asian or Asian Irish (7%), Other White (5.7%) and Black or Black Irish (1.5%). Residents who said they are Catholic make up 71% across Ireland’s towns. 84% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 72% of Irish towns.
In Churchtown, 31% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 76% 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.
On the census count, 5.3% of residents give unpaid care. 56% of Churchtown’s residents 15 and over are single and 31% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
Churchtown sits below 60% of Irish towns for adults with a degree or higher (32%)
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Churchtown’s adults, 7.7% went on to postgraduate study and 8.5% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Typically, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Every neighbour of Churchtown has an older population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Churchtown | 684 | — | 37 | 19% | 50% |
| Buttevant | 1,080 | 5.6 km | 40.9 | 19% | 38% |
| Charleville | 3,970 | 10.0 km | 38.2 | 16% | 42% |
| Kanturk | 2,803 | 15.5 km | 37.9 | 16% | 44% |
| Mallow | 13,456 | 16.1 km | 38.6 | 15% | 47% |
| Kilmallock | 1,761 | 18.1 km | 42.9 | 23% | 34% |
| Newmarket | 1,052 | 19.2 km | 48.6 | 28% | 33% |
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 Churchtown’s residents
What is the population of Churchtown?
Churchtown had 684 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 10% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Churchtown?
The median age is 37. 30% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Churchtown?
34% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (205 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Churchtown?
84% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 12% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Churchtown?
81% are Catholic, 9% have no religion and 11% another religion; 4.1% didn’t say.
Is Churchtown good for families?
50% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Churchtown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Churchtown?
Median gross household income in Churchtown was €55,490 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).