Photo: Neil Theasby · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 88% of Irish towns: half of Mitchelstown is over 41.7
Compared with 24% across Ireland’s towns, 31% of households are one person living alone here. Shared households of unrelated adults: 2.2% of the total. Just over four in five residents said they are Catholic, more than in 92% of Irish towns. Mitchelstown is home to 3,744 residents in 1,527 households, by the 2022 Census.
What stands out about the people of Mitchelstown
Older than most towns
Half of Mitchelstown’s residents are under 41.7 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 19% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Slower growth than 85% of Irish towns: Mitchelstown changed by +2% 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 Ireland’s towns the median change is +8%; across Co. Cork’s towns, +7%.
Residents aged 65 and over: 19%, a higher share than 86% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. The largest age band is 40–44: 7.7% of residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Mitchelstown, 41.7. 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%.
Below 88% of Irish towns: 4.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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, 34% of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Mitchelstown, 28% and 24%. To put it in context, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Smaller households than 85% of Irish towns: 2.4 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.
The share of households of parents with children stands at 42%.
Holiday homes: 0.8%, a higher share than 79% 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
Households without a car or van: 19% here and 17% across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 11% of households live in a flat or apartment. By way of comparison, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns.
Median household income: €43,980 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €43,980 a year before tax, the median household income is 27% under that of Ireland (€60,120). Countywide in Co. Cork, the median is €60,670.
17% born outside Ireland, fewer than in 76% 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.
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born elsewhere in the EU (4.9%) and outside the EU and UK (4.5%). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents born outside Ireland is 22%. Few places have so few residents with another country’s citizenship: 12% here, fewer than in 65% of Irish towns.
Fewer daily speakers of Irish outside education than 99% of Irish towns: 0.4%
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
Within Co. Cork, Ballincollig has the largest share, 2.1%. Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.1% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
Only 12% of residents said they have no religion in Mitchelstown
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: 83% of Mitchelstown · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Here 83% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 78%. For comparison, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Other than White Irish, most residents describe themselves as Other White (11%), Other, including mixed (1.9%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.8%).
36% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 65% of Irish towns don’t reach
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.
On the census count, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care. Just over half of Mitchelstown’s residents 15 and over are single and 36% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
In Mitchelstown, 22% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 85% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, 6.6% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 14% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, adults with a degree or higher come to 36%.
Of 41 towns its size (3,148 to 4,449 people), the 4th oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Castlegar (33.1), the youngest, and Montenotte (46.5), the oldest. Nearest to Mitchelstown in age: Prospect and Newtown Pery (40.8), Tivoli (41.1), Cleaboy (42.1) and Newcastle (42.5).
No nearby town is as old as Mitchelstown
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
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 Mitchelstown’s residents
What is the population of Mitchelstown?
Mitchelstown had 3,744 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Mitchelstown?
The median age is 41.7, older than 88% of Irish towns. 21% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Mitchelstown?
35% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,201 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Mitchelstown?
83% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 17% were born abroad and 12% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Mitchelstown?
81% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 7.8% another religion; 4.3% didn’t say.
Is Mitchelstown good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 21% of residents are under 18. Schools near Mitchelstown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Mitchelstown?
Median gross household income in Mitchelstown was €43,980 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).