Photo: Robert Ashby · CC BY-SA 2.054% of households are parents with children, a share 90% of Irish towns don’t reach
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 10%, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 9.5% of households have no car or van. At 20%, the share of one-person households is lower than in 71% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 1,967 residents and 693 households in Cloyne.
What stands out about the people of Cloyne
A town of families
43% of households are couples with children and 11% lone parents with children, more than in 90% of Irish towns; 26% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A +8% change since 2016: faster than 53% 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.
11% of residents are 65 or over, below 73% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Half of Cloyne’s residents are over 37.7, older than in 51% of Irish towns. No age band is larger than 40–44: 11% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
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%.
Cloyne sits below 93% of Irish towns for residents who moved in within the year (4.3%)
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
Where 7.8% is typical, process, plant and machine operatives take in just over one in ten workers. In Cloyne, one in ten residents 15 and over are students. Across Ireland’s towns, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Fewer shared households of unrelated adults than 87% of Irish towns: 2.6%
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 2.9 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. The share of shared households of unrelated adults across Ireland’s towns is 4.7%.
Households in flats make up 7.4% in Cloyne, less than in 77% 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
Internet at home: broadband for 89%, nothing for 7.7% (typical: 7.6%). The usual figure: 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 0.1% of homes are holiday homes.
€62,740 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 Cloyne’s households have a gross income above €62,740 a year and half below, close to the median for Ireland (€60,120). Co. Cork comes in at €60,670 at the median.
14% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 57% 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 most common home language after English is Polish (7.1%); in all 17% speak another language, and 2.1% speak English not well or not at all. Against that, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Few places have so few residents born outside Ireland: 21% here, fewer than in 55% of Irish towns.
Only 0.9% of residents speak Irish daily outside education in Cloyne
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%. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1%.
Above 77% of Irish towns: 76% of residents said they are Catholic
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: 80% of Cloyne · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Where 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns, Cloyne has 80%. The wider picture: 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (15%), Black or Black Irish (1.9%) and Other, including mixed (1.7%). Residents with no religion are rarer here than in 53% of Irish towns.
Married residents 15 and over: 38%, a higher share than 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 5.4%; Cloyne has 6.4%. Set beside that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 60% of Irish towns: 31%
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 just over one in ten adults here, while 8.5% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Across Ireland’s towns, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher.
Nearby, 3 of 6 towns have older populations than Cloyne
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloyne | 1,967 | — | 37.7 | 11% | 54% |
| Aghada-Rostellan | 1,159 | 6.6 km | 43.5 | 15% | 48% |
| Midleton | 13,906 | 6.7 km | 37 | 11% | 52% |
| Castlemartyr | 1,603 | 7.6 km | 38.3 | 8.6% | 50% |
| Whitegate | 1,248 | 7.8 km | 36.6 | 7.5% | 60% |
| Carrigtwohill | 5,568 | 10.8 km | 34.9 | 6% | 60% |
| Cobh | 14,148 | 12.4 km | 38.7 | 13% | 46% |
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 Cloyne’s residents
What is the population of Cloyne?
Cloyne had 1,967 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Cloyne?
The median age is 37.7. 30% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Cloyne?
40% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (739 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Cloyne?
80% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 21% were born abroad and 14% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Cloyne?
76% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 7.5% another religion; 4.1% didn’t say.
Is Cloyne good for families?
54% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Cloyne are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Cloyne?
Median gross household income in Cloyne was €62,740 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).