Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 96% of Irish towns: half of Unionhall is over 43.8
Compared with 0.2% across Ireland’s towns, 27% of homes are holiday homes here. Unionhall’s 155 households held 359 residents at the 2022 Census. Locally, 32% of households are one person living alone. Households of parents with children are rarer here than in 78% of Irish towns.
Since 2016, Unionhall has grown +10%, faster than 60% 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.
In Unionhall, 19% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 87% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 55–59: 9.2% of residents, 1.7 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. For Unionhall, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 10%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Cork 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
39% of residents belong to the professional, managerial and technical classes
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
By occupation, skilled trades are over-represented: 24%, against a typical 11%. In Unionhall, 9.6% of residents 15 and over are students. Few places have so few residents who moved in within the year: 7.3% here, fewer than in 52% of Irish towns.
Unionhall households average 2.4 people, smaller than in 86% 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.
Little separates the share of shared households of unrelated adults here, 3.9%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns.
Below 95% of Irish towns: 3.2% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
Most homes are connected: 90% have broadband, and 6.9% have no internet (typical: 7.6%). The wider picture: 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Across Unionhall, 5.5% of households have no car or van.
€51,060 a year: where the middle household sits
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Before tax, the middle household here has €51,060 a year, 15% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). In Co. Cork overall, the median comes to €60,670.
Unionhall ranks below 73% of Irish towns on residents with another country’s citizenship: 11%
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, 7.7% use another language, chiefly French (0.8%), and 2.5% speak English not well or not at all. To put it in context, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Lower than in 56% of Irish towns: 20% of residents were born outside Ireland.
50% of Unionhall’s 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
Daily speakers of Irish outside education are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 0.9%. Speakers of Irish: 166 residents, 50% of those aged 3 and over. In Co. Cork, Ballincollig has the highest share (2.1%).
Above 76% of Irish towns: 85% of residents describe themselves as White Irish
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: 85% of Unionhall · Co. Cork’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns, against 74% in Unionhall. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 78% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (13%), Other, including mixed (1.2%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.9%). At 16%, the share of residents with no religion is lower than in 55% of Irish towns.
41% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 93% 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.
Unpaid carers: 6.7% here and 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 55% of Irish towns, at 34%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A tenth of Unionhall’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 8.9% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The benchmark for adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns: 36%.
No nearby town is as old as Unionhall
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionhall | 359 | — | 43.8 | 19% | 36% |
| Skibbereen | 2,903 | 8.4 km | 39.2 | 17% | 37% |
| Dunmanway | 1,964 | 18.7 km | 40.8 | 17% | 42% |
| Clonakilty | 5,112 | 18.9 km | 40.5 | 18% | 43% |
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 Unionhall’s residents
What is the population of Unionhall?
Unionhall had 359 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 10% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Unionhall?
The median age is 43.8. 24% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Unionhall?
50% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (166 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Unionhall?
85% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 20% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Unionhall?
74% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 9.6% another religion; 4.7% didn’t say.
Is Unionhall good for families?
36% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 24% of residents are under 18. Schools near Unionhall are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Unionhall?
Median gross household income in Unionhall was €51,060 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).