Photo: Jack Barber · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer flats than 99% of Irish towns: 0.1% of households
Set against 24% across Ireland’s towns, 16% of households are one person living alone in Lehenagh. The neighbourhood is home to 4,154 residents in 1,311 households, by the 2022 Census. Residents aged 65 and over account for 9.7%. Compared with other places, residents who said they are Catholic are common here: 77%, more than in 79% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Lehenagh
A neighbourhood of families
43% of households are couples with children and 11% lone parents with children, more than in 89% of Irish towns; 23% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Half of Lehenagh is under 35.1, younger than 79% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 35–39 than any other five-year age: 9.6% of residents. On residents aged 15 to 24, Lehenagh sits higher than 54% of Irish towns: 12%. In Montenotte, the oldest of Co. Cork’s towns by this measure, it is 25%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Lehenagh, 35.1. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
A larger share of students among residents 15 and over than 67% of Irish towns: 11%
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
There is little gap on residents who moved in within the year: 8.3%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Households of parents with children: 54%, a higher share than 89% 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 typical household size is 3 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, a lower share than in 57% of Irish towns. The share of households of parents with children across Ireland’s towns is 43%.
Fewer households without a car or van than 92% of Irish towns: 6.2%
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 rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 17% of households have no car or van. 5.4% of households have no internet access (typical: 7.6%); 92% have broadband.
The middle household earns €78,740 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 €78,740, 31% higher than across Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Cork the median is €60,670.
15% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 84% 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.
8.5% of residents are citizens of another country, against 15% across Ireland’s towns. Polish leads the languages spoken at home (2.8%), among the 14% who speak another language there; 1.4% speak English not well or not at all. The benchmark for residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns: 22%.
Above 77% of Irish towns: 1.5% of residents speak Irish daily outside education
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
Some 1,655 people here, 45% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. In Co. Cork, Ballincollig has the highest share (2.1%). Set beside that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Residents with no religion: 13%, a lower share than 76% 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: 84% of Lehenagh · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 78% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish in Lehenagh comes in at 84%. Typically, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (7.1%), Asian or Asian Irish (5%) and Other, including mixed (2.2%).
A higher share of unpaid carers than 93% of Irish towns, at 6.7%
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 married residents 15 and over is 36%, against 34% across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of adults with a degree or higher than 60% of Irish towns, at 40%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
15% of Lehenagh’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 6.4% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Across Ireland’s towns, adults with a degree or higher come to 36%.
10th lowest median age among 41 towns of 3,632 to 4,805
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 Lehenagh in age: Glanmire (34.8), St Luke's (35), Bohernabreena (35.6) and Shanakiel (36.3).
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 5 are older than Lehenagh
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lehenagh | 4,154 | — | 35.1 | 9.7% | 54% |
| Inishkenny | 5,552 | 1.5 km | 33.6 | 9.9% | 41% |
| Togher | 3,007 | 1.6 km | 41.7 | 20% | 43% |
| Frankfield and Grange | 7,687 | 2.1 km | 37.1 | 11% | 51% |
| Turner's Cross | 7,208 | 2.3 km | 43 | 20% | 34% |
| Glasheen | 5,981 | 2.5 km | 36.3 | 19% | 26% |
| Bishopstown | 14,529 | 2.9 km | 38 | 23% | 29% |
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 Lehenagh’s residents
What is the population of Lehenagh?
Lehenagh had 4,154 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood.
What is the average age in Lehenagh?
The median age is 35.1, younger than 79% of Irish towns. 26% are under 18 and 9.7% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Lehenagh?
45% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,655 people), and 1.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Lehenagh?
84% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 8.5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Lehenagh?
77% are Catholic, 13% have no religion and 10% another religion; 7.4% didn’t say.
Is Lehenagh good for families?
54% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Lehenagh are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Lehenagh?
Median gross household income in Lehenagh was €78,740 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).