Photo: Ulrich Hartmann · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 48.4: Glengarriff is older than 99% of Irish towns
28% of homes are holiday homes, against 0.2% across Ireland’s towns. In Glengarriff, 31% of households are one person living alone. More residents with no religion than in nearly three quarters of Irish towns: 23%. The town counted 211 residents and 81 households at the 2022 Census.
Faster growth than 87% of Irish towns: Glengarriff changed by +19% since 2016
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 change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +7% across Co. Cork’s towns.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 6.6% in Glengarriff, less than in 99% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: one in ten residents, 1.9 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over, a higher share than in 93% of Irish towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
Students among residents 15 and over make up 5.1% in Glengarriff, less than in 99% 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
Two fifths of Glengarriff’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 21% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 7.5%.
2.4 people per household, fewer than in 85% 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.
4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns, against 6.2% in Glengarriff. Households of parents with children account for 36%.
8.5% 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
Connected households: 75% on broadband; 18% offline (typical: 7.6%). 15% of households live in a flat or apartment, more than in 61% of Irish towns. As a yardstick, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Half of households earn more than €37,030 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Before tax, the middle household here has €37,030 a year, 38% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Cork comes in at €60,670 at the median.
Glengarriff: 26% of residents were born outside Ireland, above 68% 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 35%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
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.
Residents born abroad were most often born in the UK (12%), then elsewhere in the EU (6.5%). Glengarriff has more residents with another country’s citizenship than 58% of Irish towns, at 16%. On average, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
In Glengarriff, 0.5% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 96% 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
82 residents, 44% of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Typically, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 63% of Irish towns: 74%
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: 74% of Glengarriff · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White Irish, the main groups are Other White (22%), Irish Traveller (2.2%) and Black or Black Irish (0.5%). Lower than in 53% of Irish towns: 71% of residents said they are Catholic. Across Ireland’s towns, residents who describe themselves as White Irish come to 78%.
Glengarriff ranks above 60% of Irish towns on married residents 15 and over: 36%
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.
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 5.7%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 55% of Irish towns, at 33%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Across Ireland’s towns, one in ten adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Glengarriff, 7.9%, and 12% hold a postgraduate qualification. Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Every nearby town is younger than Glengarriff
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 Glengarriff’s residents
What is the population of Glengarriff?
Glengarriff had 211 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 19% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Glengarriff?
The median age is 48.4. 19% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Glengarriff?
44% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (82 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Glengarriff?
74% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 26% were born abroad and 16% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Glengarriff?
71% are Catholic, 23% have no religion and 6.7% another religion; 8.1% didn’t say.
Is Glengarriff good for families?
36% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 19% of residents are under 18. Schools near Glengarriff are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Glengarriff?
Median gross household income in Glengarriff was €37,030 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).