Photo: Sebastian “sebrem” B… · CC BY-SA 3.0Older than 71% of Irish towns: half of Mahon is over 39.4
In Mahon, just over four in five residents describe themselves as White Irish, beside 78% across Ireland’s towns. At the 2022 Census Mahon was home to 13,892 people in 5,203 households. Households in flats: 16% of the total. Few places have as many one-person households: 25% here, more than in 52% of Irish towns.
Mahon changed by +5% from 2016 to 2022, slower than 70% 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.
Set beside +8% across Ireland’s towns and +7% across Co. Cork’s towns.
17% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 71% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 35–39: 8% of residents. Against that, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. On residents aged 15 to 24, Mahon sits lower than 56% 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+
■ Mahon, 39.4. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
A student neighbourhood: 11% of residents 15 and over are students
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
42% of Mahon’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 14% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Across Mahon, 7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Smaller households than 57% of Irish towns: 2.6 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.
In Mahon, 4.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. At 42%, the share of households of parents with children is lower than in half of Irish towns.
Only 15% of households have no car or van in Mahon
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
The share of households with broadband is 91%; 7% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 17%. Holiday homes: 0.2% of the total.
A median household income of €61,880 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 €61,880 sits close to Ireland (€60,120). Co. Cork’s median household income is €60,670.
A lower share of residents born outside Ireland than 72% of Irish towns, at 18%
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 (2.2%), and 1.3% speak English not well or not at all. As a reference point, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Mahon has fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than 71% of Irish towns, at 11%.
Only 1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education in Mahon
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 5,351 people here, 42% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. As a yardstick, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Residents with no religion make up 19% in Mahon, more than in 63% 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: 82% of Mahon · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White Irish, most residents describe themselves as Other White (9.6%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.9%) and Other, including mixed (2.4%). Compared with other places, residents who said they are Catholic are common here: 71%, more than in just over half of Irish towns. On average, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
In Mahon, 6.3% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 85% 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.
With married residents 15 and over at 36%, Mahon is ahead of 62% of Irish towns on that count. Unpaid carers: 5.4% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
More adults with a degree or higher than 61% of Irish towns: 41%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Mahon’s adults, 17% went on to postgraduate study and 8.3% 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.
Oldest by rank: 8th of 41 towns of 11,911 to 16,038 people
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Castletroy (29) and the oldest Foxrock (44.7). Nearest to Mahon in age: Cabinteely (38.9), Kimmage (39.1), Corbally and King's Island (39.5) and Blackrock (39.5).
Mahon sits below 4 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahon | 13,892 | — | 39.4 | 17% | 42% |
| Tivoli | 4,449 | 2.1 km | 41.1 | 18% | 34% |
| Ballinlough | 5,435 | 2.4 km | 44.1 | 22% | 38% |
| Douglas | 22,029 | 2.7 km | 38.3 | 13% | 46% |
| Knockrea | 5,228 | 2.8 km | 37.4 | 13% | 29% |
| Montenotte | 4,113 | 2.9 km | 46.5 | 25% | 33% |
| Tramore | 4,803 | 3.0 km | 41.1 | 19% | 39% |
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 Mahon’s residents
What is the population of Mahon?
Mahon had 13,892 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Mahon?
The median age is 39.4, older than 71% of Irish towns. 22% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Mahon?
42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (5,351 people), and 1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Mahon?
82% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Mahon?
71% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 9.2% another religion; 5.7% didn’t say.
Is Mahon good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Mahon are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Mahon?
Median gross household income in Mahon was €61,880 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).