Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 88% of Irish towns: half of Togher is over 41.7
Nearly four in five residents said they are Catholic (Ireland’s towns: 71%). The 2022 Census put Togher’s population at 3,007, in 1,176 households. On the census count, 26% of households have no car or van. Lower than in 78% of Irish towns: 3.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
What stands out about the people of Togher
Older than most towns
Half of Togher’s residents are under 41.7 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 20% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Many carers
About 210 residents (7.1%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 96% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Togher’s population changed by +9% since 2016, more than in 57% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns the median change is +8%; across Co. Cork’s towns, +7%.
Togher: 20% of residents are 65 or over, above 87% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 50–54: 7.5% of residents. As a yardstick, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Montenotte, the oldest of Co. Cork’s towns by this measure, it is 25%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Togher, 41.7. 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.
Below 96% of Irish towns: 3.7% 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
A fifth of Togher’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 27% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 7.5%.
Togher households average 2.6 people, smaller than in 67% 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 Togher, just over a quarter of households are one person living alone, beside 24% across Ireland’s towns. Here, 43% of households are parents with children.
In Togher, 5.4% of households live in a flat or apartment, 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
Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households in flats is 12%. At home, 84% have broadband, while 13% have no internet access (typical: 7.6%).
Median gross household income: €42,670 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Togher’s households have a gross income below €42,670 a year, 29% under the median for Ireland (€60,120). Co. Cork’s median household income is €60,670.
Residents born outside Ireland: 12%, a lower share than 95% 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.
11% speak another language at home, most often Polish (2.2%); 1.5% speak English not well or not at all. Typically, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Few places have so few residents with another country’s citizenship: 7% here, fewer than in 95% of Irish towns.
Fewer daily speakers of Irish outside education than 82% of Irish towns: 0.7%
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
Ballincollig leads Co. Cork with 2.1%. Elsewhere, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 86% of Irish towns, at 87%
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: 87% of Togher · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (6.4%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.6%) and Other, including mixed (2.4%). 12% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 84% of Irish towns. Measured more widely, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns.
Unpaid carers: 7.1%, a higher share than 96% 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.
Compared with 34% across Ireland’s towns, 31% of residents 15 and over are married here. As a reference point, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 94% of Irish towns: 17%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate qualifications are held by 5.6% of adults here, while 18% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). For adults with a degree or higher, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 36%.
In its size band (2,649 to 3,454), the 7th oldest of 41 towns
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Kilbarry (30.4) and the oldest Ballybrack (45.5). Nearest to Togher in age: Donegal (41.2), Decies (41.2), Cleaboy (42.1) and Bantry (43.5).
Median age: 1 of the 6 towns around Togher are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Togher | 3,007 | — | 41.7 | 20% | 43% |
| Glasheen | 5,981 | 0.9 km | 36.3 | 19% | 26% |
| Turner's Cross | 7,208 | 1.2 km | 43 | 20% | 34% |
| Gillabbey | 5,857 | 1.5 km | 25.6 | 11% | 11% |
| Lehenagh | 4,154 | 1.6 km | 35.1 | 9.7% | 54% |
| Inishkenny | 5,552 | 1.6 km | 33.6 | 9.9% | 41% |
| South Gate | 7,185 | 1.9 km | 33.7 | 9.4% | 18% |
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 Togher’s residents
What is the population of Togher?
Togher had 3,007 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Togher?
The median age is 41.7, older than 88% of Irish towns. 20% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Togher?
35% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (941 people), and 0.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Togher?
87% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 7% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Togher?
79% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 8.5% another religion; 6.8% didn’t say.
Is Togher good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Togher are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Togher?
Median gross household income in Togher was €42,670 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).