Photo: Peter Craine · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 91% of Irish towns: half of Gurranebraher is over 42.4
Here just over two in five households have no car or van, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 17%. Gurranebraher had 4,502 residents in 2,023 households at the 2022 Census. Across Gurranebraher, 35% of households are one person living alone. Few places have as many residents who said they are Catholic: 77% here, more than in 82% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Gurranebraher
Older than most towns
Half of Gurranebraher’s residents are under 42.4 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 20% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Growing more slowly than most
Gurranebraher went from about 4,500 people in 2016 to 4,502 in 2022, ±0%: slower growth than in 92% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
±0% since 2016: slower than 92% 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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +7% across Co. Cork’s towns.
20% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 90% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 25–29, with 7.6% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Typically, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 11%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Gurranebraher, 42.4. 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 students among residents 15 and over than 93% of Irish towns, at 8%
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
Across Ireland’s towns, just over a third of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Gurranebraher, 19% and 25%. The neighbourhood has fewer residents who moved in within the year than just over four fifths of Irish towns, at 5.4%.
Smaller households than 94% of Irish towns: 2.3 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.
A third of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns: 43%). Compared with other places, shared households of unrelated adults are common here: 7%, more than in just over two thirds of Irish towns.
Fewer households in flats than 58% of Irish towns: 11%
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: 0.1%. Across Ireland’s towns, households in flats come to 12%.
A median household income of €39,250 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
The median household earns €39,250 gross, 35% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). County median: €60,670 (Co. Cork).
18% born outside Ireland, fewer than in 71% 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.
Most residents from abroad were born elsewhere in the EU (6.3%) or outside the EU and UK (5.8%). The comparison figure for residents born outside Ireland is 22% across Ireland’s towns. 14% are citizens of another country (Ireland’s towns 15%).
0.8% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 74% 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%). The usual figure: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
14% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 71% 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: 83% of Gurranebraher · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White Irish, the main groups are Other White (9.2%), Asian or Asian Irish (3.8%) and Other, including mixed (2.3%). For residents with no religion, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 17%. 83% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, a higher share than in 68% of Irish towns.
A lower share of married residents 15 and over than 80% of Irish towns, at 30%
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.
Gurranebraher sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 6.1%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Below 93% of Irish towns: 18% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher
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 Gurranebraher, 22%, and 6.2% hold a postgraduate qualification. The wider picture: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 3,857 to 5,285 people, the 5th oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Dangan is the youngest (27.5); Montenotte the oldest (46.5). Nearest to Gurranebraher in age: Tramore (41.1), Ballyboden (41.5), Newcastle (42.5) and Listowel (42.6).
The towns around Gurranebraher are all younger
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gurranebraher | 4,502 | — | 42.4 | 20% | 33% |
| Sunday's Well | 2,807 | 0.7 km | 33 | 11% | 18% |
| Shandon | 3,539 | 0.7 km | 34.6 | 8.3% | 15% |
| Cork City Centre | 3,701 | 0.8 km | 34 | 9.1% | 12% |
| Knocknaheeny | 5,592 | 1.0 km | 39.3 | 16% | 44% |
| Farranree | 3,824 | 1.0 km | 38.1 | 15% | 39% |
| Blackpool | 3,124 | 1.2 km | 36.1 | 12% | 21% |
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 Gurranebraher’s residents
What is the population of Gurranebraher?
Gurranebraher had 4,502 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Gurranebraher?
The median age is 42.4, older than 91% of Irish towns. 16% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Gurranebraher?
29% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,105 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Gurranebraher?
83% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 14% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Gurranebraher?
77% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 8.9% another religion; 12% didn’t say.
Is Gurranebraher good for families?
33% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 16% of residents are under 18. Schools near Gurranebraher are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Gurranebraher?
Median gross household income in Gurranebraher was €39,250 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).