Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 99% of Irish towns: 1.3%
A third of households are one person living alone, against 24% across Ireland’s towns. Carrigans counted 389 residents and 159 households at the 2022 Census. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 94% of the total. With a median age of 40.3, Carrigans is older than 79% of Irish towns.
From 2016 to 2022, 90% of Irish towns grew faster than Carrigans: +1%
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. Donegal’s towns +6%.
Only 12% of residents are 65 or over in Carrigans
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
In Carrigans, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24, beside 12% across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Donegal 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 94% of Irish towns, at 4.2%
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
At 10%, the share of students among residents 15 and over is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Carrigans households average 2.4 people, smaller than in 84% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Donegal’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
By its share of households of parents with children (46%), Carrigans is above nearly two thirds of Irish towns.
Households in flats: 1.9%, a lower share than 97% 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
Most homes are connected: 76% have broadband, and 17% have no internet (typical: 7.6%). The usual figure: 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. In one household in 6 there is no car or van. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
A median household income of €29,250 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €29,250 a year here, 51% below Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Donegal, the figure is €42,500.
Residents born outside Ireland: 47%, a higher share than 97% 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 55%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 55%
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.
4% speak a language other than English at home, French most of all (0.8%); 0.8% speak English not well or not at all. To put it in context, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. At 6.5%, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship is lower than in 96% of Irish towns.
Carrigans sits below 90% of Irish towns for daily speakers of Irish outside education (0.6%)
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. Donegal beats Letterkenny (2.6%). Against that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Carrigans sits below 99% of Irish towns for residents with no religion (6.6%)
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: 94% of Carrigans · Co. Donegal’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White Irish, the biggest groups are Other White (5.3%), Other, including mixed (0.5%) and Irish Traveller (0.3%). Residents who said they are Catholic are more common here than in 94% of Irish towns. For residents with no religion, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 17%.
Carrigans ranks above 99% of Irish towns on unpaid carers: 8%
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.
For Carrigans, the census puts married residents 15 and over at 35%. About 30 residents (8%) give regular unpaid care (Ireland’s towns 5.4%).
Below 68% of Irish towns: 29% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Primary level or earlier: 23%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Adults with a degree or higher: 36% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. Postgraduate: 7.3% of adults.
2 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Carrigans
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. Donegal’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Donegal’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 Carrigans’s residents
What is the population of Carrigans?
Carrigans had 389 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Carrigans?
The median age is 40.3. 28% are under 18 and 12% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Carrigans?
19% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (70 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Carrigans?
94% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 47% were born abroad and 6.5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Carrigans?
82% are Catholic, 6.6% have no religion and 12% another religion; 2.8% didn’t say.
Is Carrigans good for families?
46% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 28% of residents are under 18. Schools near Carrigans are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Carrigans?
Median gross household income in Carrigans was €29,250 in 2022, against €42,500 across Co. Donegal 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).