Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 44.9: Fair Hill is older than 98% of Irish towns
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 94%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. More households without a car or van than in 77% of Irish towns: 26%. At the 2022 Census Fair Hill was home to 4,910 people in 1,926 households. For Fair Hill, the census puts households of parents with children at 41%.
What stands out about the people of Fair Hill
Older than most towns
Half of Fair Hill’s residents are under 44.9 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 21% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Fewer people than before
Fair Hill went from about 5,070 people in 2016 to 4,910 in 2022, −3%: slower growth than in 99% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Many carers
About 350 residents (7.2%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 97% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Fair Hill changed by −3% from 2016 to 2022, slower than 99% 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%.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 93% of Irish towns, at 21%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 60–64, with nearly one in ten residents, 1.8 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. Across Fair Hill, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Fair Hill, 44.9. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% 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 99% of Irish towns, at 2.3%
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
16% of Fair Hill’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 27% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Households here average 2.6 people, below 67% 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.
One-person households: 26% here and 24% across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Fair Hill ranks below 82% of Irish towns on households in flats: 6.4%
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
Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. Across the comparison, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
A median household income of €44,530 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Households here have a median gross income of €44,530, 26% lower than across Ireland (€60,120). Countywide in Co. Cork, the median is €60,670.
A smaller share of residents born outside Ireland than 98% of Irish towns: 7.7%
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.
Across Ireland’s towns, 15% of residents are citizens of another country; in Fair Hill, 4.6%. Residents born abroad were most often born in the UK (3%), then elsewhere in the EU (1.8%). Elsewhere, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Fair Hill ranks below 82% of Irish towns on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.7%
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 1,346 people here, 31% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. The highest share in Co. Cork belongs to Ballincollig (2.1%). Set beside that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Residents with no religion: 8.2%, 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: 94% of Fair Hill · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
In Fair Hill, 88% of residents said they are Catholic, beside 71% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (3.5%), Irish Traveller (1.5%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.8%).
7.2% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 97% 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.
The figure for married residents 15 and over is 36% in Fair Hill and 34% across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 99% of Irish towns: 12%
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 2.9% of adults; primary level or less for 22% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The benchmark for adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns: 36%.
Ranked by age, 1st oldest of 41 towns this size
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 27.5 in Dangan to 44.9 in Fair Hill. Nearest to Fair Hill in age: Listowel (42.6) and Ballinlough (44.1).
Every neighbour of Fair Hill has a younger population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Hill | 4,910 | — | 44.9 | 21% | 41% |
| Farranree | 3,824 | 0.7 km | 38.1 | 15% | 39% |
| Hollyhill and Ballincolly | 8,606 | 0.8 km | 35.7 | 11% | 55% |
| Knocknaheeny | 5,592 | 1.2 km | 39.3 | 16% | 44% |
| Gurranebraher | 4,502 | 1.3 km | 42.4 | 20% | 33% |
| Blackpool | 3,124 | 1.4 km | 36.1 | 12% | 21% |
| Shandon | 3,539 | 1.5 km | 34.6 | 8.3% | 15% |
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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas
Questions about Fair Hill’s residents
What is the population of Fair Hill?
Fair Hill had 4,910 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 3% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Fair Hill?
The median age is 44.9, older than 98% of Irish towns. 17% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Fair Hill?
31% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,346 people), and 0.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Fair Hill?
94% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 7.7% were born abroad and 4.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Fair Hill?
88% are Catholic, 8.2% have no religion and 3.6% another religion; 9.3% didn’t say.
Is Fair Hill good for families?
41% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 17% of residents are under 18. Schools near Fair Hill are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Fair Hill?
Median gross household income in Fair Hill was €44,530 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 · Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas. 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).