Photo: Hywel Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0Younger than 90% of Irish towns: half of Inishkenny is under 33.6
Shared households of unrelated adults: 14%, above 85% of Irish towns. 18% of households are one person living alone. Fewer residents who describe themselves as White Irish than in just over four fifths of Irish towns: 67%. Inishkenny counted 5,552 residents and 1,912 households at the 2022 Census.
What stands out about the people of Inishkenny
Younger than most towns
Half of Inishkenny’s residents are under 33.6 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 13% are 15 to 24 and 9.9% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
In Inishkenny, 9.9% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 78% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Where just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns, Inishkenny has 13%. On average, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Inishkenny, 33.6. 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 larger share of residents who moved in within the year than 83% of Irish towns: 12%
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
48% of Inishkenny’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 12% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Inishkenny households average 3 people, larger than in 82% 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.
The share of households of parents with children is 41%, against 43% across Ireland’s towns.
7.5% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 86% 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
93% of households are on broadband; 4.3% have no internet connection (typical: 7.6%). Households without a car or van make up 17% across Ireland’s towns. Here, 13% of households live in a flat or apartment.
A median household income of €75,230 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €75,230 a year here, 25% above Ireland (€60,120). Countywide in Co. Cork, the median is €60,670.
29% of residents were born outside Ireland, more than in 77% 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.
Against a figure of 15% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship in Inishkenny comes in at 19%. Set beside that, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born outside the EU and UK (11%) and in Poland (5.4%).
Can speak Irish: 44% of Inishkenny’s residents
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
In all, 2,280 residents aged 3 and over (44%) can speak Irish. Higher than in two thirds of Irish towns: 1.3% of residents speak Irish daily outside education.
68% of residents said they are Catholic, fewer than in 65% 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: 67% of Inishkenny · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Asked about religion, 16% answered none, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who said they are Catholic is 71%. The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (14%), Asian or Asian Irish (12%) and Other, including mixed (4.3%).
Half of adults have never married
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.
Across Inishkenny, just over a third of residents 15 and over are married. The neighbourhood sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 5.4%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher: 51%, a higher share than 80% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Inishkenny’s adults, 19% went on to postgraduate study and 4.9% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Of 41 towns its size (4,948 to 6,258 people), the 6th youngest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Gillabbey (25.6), the youngest, and Sutton (45.4), the oldest. Nearest to Inishkenny in age: St Stephen's Green (32.2), Portobello (33.4), Rathgar (34.2) and Ballybeg (34.4).
Older than Inishkenny: 5 of the 6 towns nearby
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inishkenny | 5,552 | — | 33.6 | 9.9% | 41% |
| Lehenagh | 4,154 | 1.5 km | 35.1 | 9.7% | 54% |
| Bishopstown | 14,529 | 1.5 km | 38 | 23% | 29% |
| Togher | 3,007 | 1.6 km | 41.7 | 20% | 43% |
| Glasheen | 5,981 | 2.1 km | 36.3 | 19% | 26% |
| Gillabbey | 5,857 | 2.7 km | 25.6 | 11% | 11% |
| Turner's Cross | 7,208 | 2.8 km | 43 | 20% | 34% |
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 Inishkenny’s residents
What is the population of Inishkenny?
Inishkenny had 5,552 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood.
What is the average age in Inishkenny?
The median age is 33.6, younger than 90% of Irish towns. 23% are under 18 and 9.9% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Inishkenny?
44% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (2,280 people), and 1.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Inishkenny?
67% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 29% were born abroad and 19% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Inishkenny?
68% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 17% another religion; 3% didn’t say.
Is Inishkenny good for families?
41% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Inishkenny are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Inishkenny?
Median gross household income in Inishkenny was €75,230 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).