Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0Glasheen ranks above 97% of Irish towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 21%
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households of parents with children is 43%; Glasheen has 26%. In 2022, the Census found 5,981 residents in the neighbourhood, living in 2,439 households. 18% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. More residents who describe themselves as White Irish than in 76% of Irish towns: 84%.
What stands out about the people of Glasheen
A student neighbourhood
19% of residents aged 15 and over are students, more than in 97% of Irish towns; Ireland’s towns 10%. 21% of residents are 15 to 24. Social class & newcomers ↓
Many older residents
19% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 86% of Irish towns; 6.8% are 80 or over, and 28% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Since 2016, Glasheen has changed by +2%, slower than 85% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +7% across Co. Cork’s towns.
Glasheen ranks above 86% of Irish towns on residents aged 65 and over: 19%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Half of Glasheen’s residents are under 36.3, younger than in 68% of Irish towns. For comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. The biggest five-year age group is 20–24, with 17% of residents, 2.8 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Glasheen, 36.3. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 87 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.
Glasheen sits above 97% of Irish towns for students among residents 15 and over (19%)
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
Set against 7.5% across Ireland’s towns, 13% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Glasheen. To put it in context, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Smaller households than 79% of Irish towns: 2.5 people on average
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.
28% of households are one person living alone, against 24% across Ireland’s towns.
More car-free households than 75% of Irish towns: 25% in Glasheen
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 88%; 11% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Households without a car or van make up 17% across Ireland’s towns. Across Glasheen, nearly one in ten households live in a flat or apartment. The neighbourhood has fewer holiday homes than 54% of Irish towns, at 0.2%.
A median household income of €51,350 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Glasheen’s households have a gross income below €51,350 a year, 15% under the median for Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Cork overall, the median comes to €60,670.
Only 19% of Glasheen’s residents were born outside Ireland
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.
At home, 12% use another language, chiefly French (1.3%), and 0.9% speak English not well or not at all. Few places have so few residents with another country’s citizenship: 14% here, fewer than in 58% of Irish towns. By way of comparison, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Glasheen sits above 90% of Irish towns for daily speakers of Irish outside education (1.9%)
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%). Typically, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
25% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 82% 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: 84% of Glasheen · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White Irish come Other White (7.9%), Asian or Asian Irish (4.8%) and Other, including mixed (2.2%). Few places have so few residents who said they are Catholic: 66% here, fewer than in 69% of Irish towns. Against that, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
29% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 85% 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.
6% of residents give unpaid care, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Glasheen: 43% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, above 65% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
18% of Glasheen’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 11% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Still in education: just over a quarter of residents 15 and over. Adults with a degree or higher make up 36% across Ireland’s towns.
13th lowest median age among 41 towns of 5,387 to 6,710
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Gillabbey is the youngest (25.6); Sutton the oldest (45.4). Nearest to Glasheen in age: Ballytruckle (36), Galvone (36.2), Ferrybank (36.5) and Oranmore (36.6).
A younger town than 2 of the 6 around it: Glasheen
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glasheen | 5,981 | — | 36.3 | 19% | 26% |
| Gillabbey | 5,857 | 0.7 km | 25.6 | 11% | 11% |
| Togher | 3,007 | 0.9 km | 41.7 | 20% | 43% |
| Sunday's Well | 2,807 | 1.3 km | 33 | 11% | 18% |
| Turner's Cross | 7,208 | 1.4 km | 43 | 20% | 34% |
| South Gate | 7,185 | 1.5 km | 33.7 | 9.4% | 18% |
| Cork City Centre | 3,701 | 1.7 km | 34 | 9.1% | 12% |
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 Glasheen’s residents
What is the population of Glasheen?
Glasheen had 5,981 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Glasheen?
The median age is 36.3, younger than 68% of Irish towns. 12% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Glasheen?
46% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (2,480 people), and 1.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Glasheen?
84% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 19% were born abroad and 14% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Glasheen?
66% are Catholic, 25% have no religion and 8.8% another religion; 8.5% didn’t say.
Is Glasheen good for families?
26% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 12% of residents are under 18. Schools near Glasheen are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Glasheen?
Median gross household income in Glasheen was €51,350 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).