Fewer residents with no religion than 99% of Irish towns: 5.5%
Households without a car or van: 6.6% here and 17% across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, nearly a fifth of households are one person living alone. At 47%, the share of households of parents with children is higher than in 70% of Irish towns. The 2022 Census put Shanballymore’s population at 184, in 64 households.
Since 2016, Shanballymore has changed by +5%, slower than 66% 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.
The median across Ireland’s towns is +8%, and across Co. Cork’s towns +7%.
Older than 67% of Irish towns: half of Shanballymore is over 39
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The figure for residents aged 15 to 24 is 13% in Shanballymore and 12% across Ireland’s towns. In Montenotte, the oldest of Co. Cork’s towns by this measure, it is 25%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 84 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
A higher share of students among residents 15 and over than 81% of Irish towns, at 13%
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
18% of Shanballymore’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 22% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 6.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Shanballymore households average 3 people, larger than in 84% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
98% of homes are houses
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 in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Connected households: 85% on broadband; 8.6% offline (typical: 7.6%).
Households here have a median income of €57,800 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €57,800 a year before tax, the median household income is near that of Ireland (€60,120). Co. Cork comes in at €60,670 at the median.
A lower share of residents born outside Ireland than 91% of Irish towns, at 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.
Here 8.3% of residents are citizens of another country, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 15%. Set beside that, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the UK (7.1%) and elsewhere in the EU (2.7%).
In Shanballymore, 35% of residents can speak Irish
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
No town in Co. Cork beats Ballincollig (2.1%). Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
91% of residents said they are Catholic, a share 99% of Irish towns don’t reach
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: 90% of Shanballymore · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 78%; Shanballymore has 90%. On average, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Married residents 15 and over: 38%, a higher share than 80% 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 Shanballymore, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care. 52% of the town’s residents 15 and over are single and 38% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 94% of Irish towns: 16%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Shanballymore’s adults, 4.5% went on to postgraduate study and 23% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Across Ireland’s towns, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher.
2 in 5 nearby towns have a higher median age than Shanballymore
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanballymore | 184 | — | 39 | 15% | 47% |
| Buttevant | 1,080 | 13.7 km | 40.9 | 19% | 38% |
| Mallow | 13,456 | 14.6 km | 38.6 | 15% | 47% |
| Mitchelstown | 3,744 | 14.8 km | 41.7 | 19% | 42% |
| Fermoy | 6,720 | 16.1 km | 38.9 | 14% | 42% |
| Kilworth | 1,179 | 16.8 km | 36.3 | 12% | 51% |
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 Shanballymore’s residents
What is the population of Shanballymore?
Shanballymore had 184 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Shanballymore?
The median age is 39. 28% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Shanballymore?
35% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (59 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Shanballymore?
90% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 13% were born abroad and 8.3% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Shanballymore?
91% are Catholic, 5.5% have no religion and 3.3% another religion; 1.6% didn’t say.
Is Shanballymore good for families?
47% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 28% of residents are under 18. Schools near Shanballymore are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Shanballymore?
Median gross household income in Shanballymore was €57,800 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).