Photo: Seighean at English Wikipedia · Public domainA family neighbourhood: 58% of households are parents with children
The share of residents aged 65 and over trails 92% of Irish towns: 6.7%. In 2022, the Census found 4,454 residents in Glanmire, living in 1,432 households. For Glanmire, the census puts households without a car or van at 4.2%. The neighbourhood has more residents who describe themselves as White Irish than just over four fifths of Irish towns, at 86%.
What stands out about the people of Glanmire
A neighbourhood of families
49% of households are couples with children and 9.3% lone parents with children, more than in 97% of Irish towns; 24% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
A student neighbourhood
14% of residents aged 15 and over are students, more than in 90% of Irish towns; Ireland’s towns 10%. 14% of residents are 15 to 24. Social class & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A median age of 34.8: Glanmire is younger than 82% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 45–49, with 9.9% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns. In Glanmire, 14% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Glanmire, 34.8. 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%.
14% of residents 15 and over are students, a share 90% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
Residents who moved in within the year make up 8.7%, against 7.5% across Ireland’s towns. For comparison, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Only 14% of households are one person living alone in Glanmire
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.
3.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 4.7%. A household here holds 3.1 people on average. Elsewhere, 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Households in flats make up 3.9% in Glanmire, less than in 93% 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
Holiday homes are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 0.1%. By way of comparison, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
The middle household earns €87,280 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of households are above €87,280 a year before tax: 45% over the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Cork’s median household income is €60,670.
Residents born outside Ireland make up 15% in Glanmire, less than in 86% 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.
In Glanmire, 8.9% of residents are citizens of another country, beside 15% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. 13% speak another language at home, most often Polish (2.7%); 1.3% speak English not well or not at all.
1.6% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, more than in 81% 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
No town in Co. Cork beats Ballincollig (2.1%). For daily speakers of Irish outside education, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 1.1%.
77% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 80% 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: 86% of Glanmire · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White Irish, most residents describe themselves as Other White (8.2%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.6%) and Black or Black Irish (1.8%). Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 17%, fewer than in 51% of Irish towns. Residents who said they are Catholic: 71% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
In Glanmire, 38% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 81% 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.
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 4.8%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
Adults with a degree or higher: 45%, a higher share than 70% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
17% of Glanmire’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 4.5% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Against that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Youngest by rank: 6th of 41 towns of 3,804 to 5,138 people
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Dangan (27.5) and the oldest Montenotte (46.5). Nearest to Glanmire in age: Castlegar (33.1), Newcastle (33.9), St Luke's (35) and Lehenagh (35.1).
Glanmire is younger than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glanmire | 4,454 | — | 34.8 | 6.7% | 58% |
| Riverstown | 3,664 | 1.6 km | 37.1 | 8.3% | 58% |
| Ballyvolane | 8,707 | 2.8 km | 38.4 | 13% | 54% |
| Glounthaune | 5,000 | 3.3 km | 40.1 | 17% | 50% |
| Tivoli | 4,449 | 3.5 km | 41.1 | 18% | 34% |
| Mahon | 13,892 | 3.7 km | 39.4 | 17% | 42% |
| Mayfield | 2,846 | 3.8 km | 39.3 | 17% | 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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas
Questions about Glanmire’s residents
What is the population of Glanmire?
Glanmire had 4,454 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood.
What is the average age in Glanmire?
The median age is 34.8, younger than 82% of Irish towns. 29% are under 18 and 6.7% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Glanmire?
51% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (2,111 people), and 1.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Glanmire?
86% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 8.9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Glanmire?
77% are Catholic, 17% have no religion and 6.4% another religion; 2.5% didn’t say.
Is Glanmire good for families?
58% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 29% of residents are under 18. Schools near Glanmire are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Glanmire?
Median gross household income in Glanmire was €87,280 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).