Photo: Jonathan Billinger · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 40.8: Dunmanway is older than 83% of Irish towns
The figure for households in flats is 6% in Dunmanway and 12% across Ireland’s towns. Its 783 households held 1,964 residents at the 2022 Census. Across Dunmanway, four in five residents said they are Catholic. Higher than in 88% of Irish towns: 31% of households are one person living alone.
Dunmanway grew +13% from 2016 to 2022, faster than 77% 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.
Across Co. Cork’s towns the median is +7%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
More residents aged 65 and over than 75% of Irish towns: 17%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
5–9 is the most common age band: 7.2% of residents. On residents aged 15 to 24, Dunmanway sits higher than 66% of Irish towns: 13%. The wider picture: 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 91 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.
4.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 92% 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
Across Ireland’s towns, just over a third of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Dunmanway, 31% and 17%. As a yardstick, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Households here average 2.5 people, below 74% 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.
6.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 4.7%. Meanwhile, fewer households of parents with children than in 55% of Irish towns: 42%.
More car-free households than 57% of Irish towns: 19% in Dunmanway
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
On holiday homes, 0.5% here is much the same as across Ireland’s towns. The benchmark for households without a car or van across Ireland’s towns: 17%.
€47,000 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 Dunmanway’s households have a gross income below €47,000 a year, 22% under the median for Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Cork overall, the median comes to €60,670.
16% born outside Ireland, fewer than in 82% 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 (6.3%) and elsewhere in the EU (4%). 11% of residents are citizens of another country, a lower share than in 71% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland.
0.4% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, below 99% 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
The highest share in Co. Cork belongs to Ballincollig (2.1%). Speakers of Irish: 727 residents, 45% of those aged 3 and over. The usual figure: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
88% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 90% 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 Dunmanway · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (9.9%), Other, including mixed (0.8%) and Black or Black Irish (0.4%). Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 13%, fewer than in 78% of Irish towns.
Half of adults have never married
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.
Unpaid carers: 5.7%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. For Dunmanway, the census puts married residents 15 and over at 34%.
Below 76% of Irish towns: 25% 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 6.8% of adults here, while 13% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). To put it in context, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
The places around Dunmanway
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunmanway | 1,964 | — | 40.8 | 17% | 42% |
| Clonakilty | 5,112 | 19.0 km | 40.5 | 18% | 43% |
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 Dunmanway’s residents
What is the population of Dunmanway?
Dunmanway had 1,964 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 13% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Dunmanway?
The median age is 40.8. 25% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Dunmanway?
45% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (727 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Dunmanway?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Dunmanway?
80% are Catholic, 13% have no religion and 7.2% another religion; 13% didn’t say.
Is Dunmanway good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Dunmanway are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Dunmanway?
Median gross household income in Dunmanway was €47,000 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).