Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 99% of Irish towns: half of Liscarroll is over 46
86% of residents said they are Catholic, against 71% across Ireland’s towns. At the 2022 Census, 245 people lived in Liscarroll, in 112 households. Census figures put shared households of unrelated adults at 0.9% locally. The town has fewer households in flats than 94% of Irish towns, at 3.6%.
Slower growth than 62% of Irish towns: Liscarroll changed by +6% since 2016
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.
Across Co. Cork’s towns the median is +7%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
27% of residents are 65 or over, a share 99% of Irish towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (11%), Liscarroll is below three quarters of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 14% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
Liscarroll ranks below 99% of Irish towns on students among residents 15 and over: 5.3%
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 Liscarroll, 27% and 23%. Residents who moved in within the year: 7.1% of the total.
35% of households are one person living alone, more than in 95% 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.
In Liscarroll, 38% of households are parents with children, beside 43% across Ireland’s towns. A household here holds 2.2 people on average. By way of comparison, 24% of households are one person living alone 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
There is little gap on holiday homes: 0.7%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Every 13th household or so has no car or van.
A median household income of €54,310 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
A median gross household income of €54,310 sits 10% below Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Cork the median is €60,670.
Fewer residents born outside Ireland than 94% of Irish towns: 12%
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.
5.5% of residents are citizens of another country, against 15% across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the UK (9%) and in India (1.6%).
In Liscarroll, Irish is spoken by 41% of 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
Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. No town in Co. Cork beats Ballincollig (2.1%).
Liscarroll: 93% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, above 98% 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: 93% of Liscarroll · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents with no religion is 12%, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (3%), Asian or Asian Irish (3%) and Other, including mixed (1.3%).
In Liscarroll, 39% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 83% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care; in Liscarroll, 6.9%. Set beside that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
17% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 94% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
5.5% of Liscarroll’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 17% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%).
Nearby, 1 of 5 towns have older populations than Liscarroll
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liscarroll | 245 | — | 46 | 27% | 38% |
| Buttevant | 1,080 | 9.4 km | 40.9 | 19% | 38% |
| Kanturk | 2,803 | 11.1 km | 37.9 | 16% | 44% |
| Charleville | 3,970 | 13.4 km | 38.2 | 16% | 42% |
| Newmarket | 1,052 | 14.1 km | 48.6 | 28% | 33% |
| Mallow | 13,456 | 17.9 km | 38.6 | 15% | 47% |
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 Liscarroll’s residents
What is the population of Liscarroll?
Liscarroll had 245 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Liscarroll?
The median age is 46. 18% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Liscarroll?
41% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (91 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Liscarroll?
93% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 5.5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Liscarroll?
86% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 1.7% another religion; 5.3% didn’t say.
Is Liscarroll good for families?
38% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 18% of residents are under 18. Schools near Liscarroll are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Liscarroll?
Median gross household income in Liscarroll was €54,310 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).