Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Mayfield sits above 90% of Irish towns for households without a car or van (40%)
Half of Mayfield’s residents are over 39.3, older than in 69% of Irish towns. The neighbourhood is home to 2,846 residents in 1,138 households, by the 2022 Census. Census figures put residents who describe themselves as White Irish at 86% in the neighbourhood. One-person households: 29%, above 77% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Mayfield
Fewer people than before
Mayfield went from about 2,930 people in 2016 to 2,846 in 2022, −3%: slower growth than in 98% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Many carers
About 220 residents (7.6%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 99% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
−3% since 2016: slower than 98% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +7% across Co. Cork’s towns.
Mayfield ranks above 73% of Irish towns on residents aged 65 and over: 17%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Compared with 12% across Ireland’s towns, 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24 here. For comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. The largest age band is 50–54: 7.4% of residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Mayfield, 39.3. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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 lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 95% of Irish towns, at 3.9%
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
Students among residents 15 and over: 9.7%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 7.5%.
A smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 88% of Irish towns: 2.5%
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.
Across Ireland’s towns, households average 2.7 people; in Mayfield, 2.5. Against that, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns. Census figures put households of parents with children at 43% in the neighbourhood.
Households in flats make up 17% in Mayfield, more than in 68% 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
Internet at home: broadband for 82%, nothing for 15% (typical: 7.6%). The comparison figure for households in flats is 12% across Ireland’s towns. In Mayfield, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes.
A median household income of €37,640 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€37,640 a year before tax puts the median household 37% below Ireland (€60,120). That compares with €60,670 across Co. Cork.
Mayfield sits below 92% of Irish towns for residents born outside Ireland (13%)
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.
The most common home language after English is Polish (2.6%); in all 9.9% speak another language, and 0.8% speak English not well or not at all. Set beside that, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Compared with other places, residents with another country’s citizenship are scarce here: 7.3%, fewer than in 93% of Irish towns.
1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 56% of Irish towns
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, 752 residents aged 3 and over (29%) can speak Irish. Across the comparison, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
80% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 89% 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: 86% of Mayfield · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (6.2%), Irish Traveller (2.8%) and Asian or Asian Irish (2.5%). Mayfield has fewer residents with no religion than 71% of Irish towns, at 14%.
Below 91% of Irish towns: 26% of residents 15 and over are 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.
7.6% of residents give unpaid care (Ireland’s towns: 5.4%). Set beside that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Mayfield ranks below 96% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 14%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Across Ireland’s towns, one in ten adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Mayfield, 19%, and 4.6% hold a postgraduate qualification. The benchmark for adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns: 36%.
In its size band (2,510 to 3,211), the 15th oldest of 41 towns
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 30.4 in Kilbarry to 45.5 in Ballybrack. Nearest to Mayfield in age: Kylemore (39), Skibbereen (39.2), Carna (39.5) and Blarney (39.6).
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 3 are older than Mayfield
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayfield | 2,846 | — | 39.3 | 17% | 43% |
| Montenotte | 4,113 | 0.8 km | 46.5 | 25% | 33% |
| Tivoli | 4,449 | 1.0 km | 41.1 | 18% | 34% |
| The Glen | 6,119 | 1.4 km | 40.6 | 20% | 42% |
| Ballyvolane | 8,707 | 1.6 km | 38.4 | 13% | 54% |
| St Luke's | 4,278 | 1.9 km | 35 | 8.5% | 15% |
| Blackpool | 3,124 | 2.1 km | 36.1 | 12% | 21% |
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 Mayfield’s residents
What is the population of Mayfield?
Mayfield had 2,846 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 3% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Mayfield?
The median age is 39.3, older than 69% of Irish towns. 22% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Mayfield?
29% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (752 people), and 1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Mayfield?
86% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 13% were born abroad and 7.3% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Mayfield?
80% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 6.2% another religion; 5.2% didn’t say.
Is Mayfield good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Mayfield are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Mayfield?
Median gross household income in Mayfield was €37,640 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).