Photo: Robert Ashby · CC BY-SA 2.0Households without a car or van make up 5.3% in Glounthaune, less than in 95% of Irish towns
The figure for households of parents with children is 50% in Glounthaune and 43% across Ireland’s towns. At the same time, 16% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 84% of Irish towns. Its 1,738 households held 5,000 residents at the 2022 Census. In Glounthaune, 17% of residents are 65 or over.
What stands out about the people of Glounthaune
Fewer people than before
Glounthaune went from about 8,700 people in 2016 to 5,000 in 2022, −43%: slower growth than in 99% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A −43% change since 2016: 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +7% across Co. Cork’s towns.
Half of Glounthaune is over 40.1, older than 79% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 12%; Glounthaune has 11%. The biggest five-year age group is 40–44, with nearly one in ten residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Glounthaune, 40.1. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 6.5%, a lower share than 65% 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
Work here tilts toward professional occupations, at 30% against a typical 21%. Measured more widely, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, just over one in ten residents 15 and over are students.
2.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 90% 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.
Households average 2.9 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns.
Glounthaune ranks below 80% of Irish towns on households in flats: 7.1%
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
90% have broadband at home and 5.6% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Locally, 0.4% of homes are holiday homes. Set beside that, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
Median gross household income: €76,120 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 €76,120, 27% higher than across Ireland (€60,120). That compares with €60,670 across Co. Cork.
Below 81% of Irish towns: 16% of 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.
14% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (4.2%); 1.4% speak English not well or not at all. Compared with other places, residents with another country’s citizenship are scarce here: 9.9%, fewer than in just over three quarters of Irish towns. To put it in context, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Able to speak Irish: 51% in Glounthaune
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
Top of Co. Cork: Ballincollig, at 2.1%. On daily speakers of Irish outside education, Glounthaune sits higher than 67% of Irish towns: 1.3%.
A higher share of residents who said they are Catholic than 80% of Irish towns, at 77%
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: 85% of Glounthaune · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
85% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. Residents who said they are Catholic: 71% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. The census found that 15% of residents said they have no religion in Glounthaune.
44% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 97% of Irish towns don’t reach
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: 6.2%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher make up 47% in Glounthaune, more than in 72% of Irish towns
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, 9.7% of adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Glounthaune, 6.1%, and 19% hold a postgraduate qualification. For adults with a degree or higher, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 36%.
Of 41 towns its size (4,454 to 5,611 people), the 11th oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Dangan (27.5), the youngest, and Fair Hill (44.9), the oldest. Nearest to Glounthaune in age: Birr (39.4), Edmondstown (39.5), Tipperary (40.3) and Salthill (40.4).
Every nearby town is younger than Glounthaune
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glounthaune | 5,000 | — | 40.1 | 17% | 50% |
| Glanmire | 4,454 | 3.3 km | 34.8 | 6.7% | 58% |
| Riverstown | 3,664 | 4.4 km | 37.1 | 8.3% | 58% |
| Passage West-Monkstown | 6,051 | 5.1 km | 39.6 | 14% | 48% |
| Mahon | 13,892 | 5.4 km | 39.4 | 17% | 42% |
| Carrigtwohill | 5,568 | 5.5 km | 34.9 | 6% | 60% |
| Ballyvolane | 8,707 | 6.2 km | 38.4 | 13% | 54% |
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 Glounthaune’s residents
What is the population of Glounthaune?
Glounthaune had 5,000 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 43% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Glounthaune?
The median age is 40.1, older than 79% of Irish towns. 25% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Glounthaune?
51% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (2,373 people), and 1.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Glounthaune?
85% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 9.9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Glounthaune?
77% are Catholic, 15% have no religion and 7.8% another religion; 2.6% didn’t say.
Is Glounthaune good for families?
50% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Glounthaune are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Glounthaune?
Median gross household income in Glounthaune was €76,120 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).