Photo: kevin higgins · CC BY-SA 2.0More households of parents with children than 91% of Irish towns: 55%
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 88%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. At the 2022 Census Drommahane was home to 947 people in 323 households. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 10% locally. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
A growing town: +13% since 2016, faster than 78% 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.
The median across Ireland’s towns is +8%, and across Co. Cork’s towns +7%.
Drommahane is younger than 77% of Irish towns: a median age of 35.3
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Across Ireland’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24; in Drommahane, 11%. 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
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 82% of Irish towns, at 5.3%
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
37% of Drommahane’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 13% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 2.5%, a lower share than 88% 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 2.9 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Lower than in 73% of Irish towns: 19% of households are one person living alone. For comparison, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns.
In Drommahane, 8.4% of households have no car or van, fewer 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
The share of households with broadband is 85%; 11% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Measured more widely, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 0.3% of homes are holiday homes.
Median household income here: €68,480 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€68,480 a year before tax puts the median household 14% above Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Cork, the figure is €60,670.
Residents born outside Ireland: 12%, a lower share than 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 (3.7%) and outside the EU and UK (3.7%). Across Ireland’s towns, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland. Residents with another country’s citizenship are rarer here than in 86% of Irish towns.
Daily speakers of Irish outside education make up 1.7% in Drommahane, more than in 85% of Irish towns
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%. On average, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
In Drommahane, 81% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 93% 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: 88% of Drommahane · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White Irish come Other White (8%), Other, including mixed (2.7%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.7%). For residents who said they are Catholic, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 71%. Residents with no religion are rarer here than in 70% of Irish towns.
More married residents 15 and over than 83% of Irish towns: 38%
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.
Against a figure of 5.4% across Ireland’s towns, the share of unpaid carers in Drommahane comes in at 4.3%. Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
Only 28% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher in Drommahane
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A postgraduate qualification is the highest level for 6.9% of adults; primary level or less for 8.8% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Across the comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
No nearby town is as young as Drommahane
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
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 Drommahane’s residents
What is the population of Drommahane?
Drommahane had 947 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 13% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Drommahane?
The median age is 35.3. 33% are under 18 and 10% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Drommahane?
44% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (373 people), and 1.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Drommahane?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 8.3% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Drommahane?
81% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 4.8% another religion; 5.6% didn’t say.
Is Drommahane good for families?
55% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 33% of residents are under 18. Schools near Drommahane are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Drommahane?
Median gross household income in Drommahane was €68,480 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).