Photo: Towel401 · CC BY-SA 4.0More people live alone than in 99% of Irish towns: 47% of households
Residents aged 65 and over make up 23%, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 82% of residents said they are Catholic. At 1.6%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is lower than in 98% of Irish towns. Inchigeelagh is home to 136 residents in 64 households, by the 2022 Census.
+9% since 2016, a pace 57% of Irish towns didn’t match
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.
Set beside +8% across Ireland’s towns and +7% across Co. Cork’s towns.
Inchigeelagh sits below 99% of Irish towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (4.4%)
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
With a median age of 40, Inchigeelagh is older than 78% of Irish towns. By way of comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. In Montenotte, the oldest of Co. Cork’s towns by this measure, it is 25%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 116 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
A smaller share of students among residents 15 and over than 99% of Irish towns: 6.2%
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
10% lived somewhere else a year earlier, more than the typical 7.5% across Ireland’s towns. In Inchigeelagh, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 34% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 12%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns.
Smaller households than 97% of Irish towns: 2.1 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.
Households of parents with children: 31% here and 43% across Ireland’s towns.
In Inchigeelagh, 4.7% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 89% 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
Nearly one in ten households have no car or van, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. Households in flats: 12% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. The share of holiday homes stands at 2.4%.
€54,300 a year: where the middle household sits
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of households are below €54,300 a year before tax: 10% under the Ireland median (€60,120). Countywide in Co. Cork, the median is €60,670.
A smaller share of residents born outside Ireland than 82% of Irish towns: 16%
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, 15% use another language, chiefly Polish (8.1%), and 2.9% speak English not well or not at all. Fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than in 64% of Irish towns: 12%. By way of comparison, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
More daily speakers of Irish outside education than 99% of Irish towns: 4%
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
Irish speakers number 46, or 37% of residents aged 3 and over. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1%.
Inchigeelagh ranks below 85% of Irish towns on residents with no religion: 12%
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 Inchigeelagh · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White Irish, the biggest groups are Other White (9.2%), Black or Black Irish (3.1%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.5%). Higher than in 80% of Irish towns: 85% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. Set beside that, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
In Inchigeelagh, 28% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 87% 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.
The share of unpaid carers tops 99% of Irish towns: 7.4%. Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
Below 58% of Irish towns: 32% 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
Postgraduate: 10% of adults. Across Ireland’s towns, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher. Primary level or earlier: 5.6%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
Inchigeelagh sits below 1 of its 2 closest neighbours on median age
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 Inchigeelagh’s residents
What is the population of Inchigeelagh?
Inchigeelagh had 136 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Inchigeelagh?
The median age is 40. 20% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Inchigeelagh?
37% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (46 people), and 4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Inchigeelagh?
85% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 12% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Inchigeelagh?
82% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 6% another religion; 2.2% didn’t say.
Is Inchigeelagh good for families?
31% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Inchigeelagh are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Inchigeelagh?
Median gross household income in Inchigeelagh was €54,300 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).