Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Creeslough is older than 99% of Irish towns: a median age of 47.6
Just over two in five households are one person living alone (Ireland’s towns: 24%). Census day 2022: 398 residents and 184 households in Creeslough. Holiday homes: 22% of the total. At 11%, the share of residents with no religion is lower than in 90% of Irish towns.
+6% since 2016: slower 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.
For comparison, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +6% across Co. Donegal’s towns.
Creeslough sits below 99% of Irish towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (8%)
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 50–54: 10% of residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 23% in Creeslough. The usual figure: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Donegal 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
5.4% of residents 15 and over are students, below 99% of Irish towns
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
Residents who moved in within the year make up 4.9%, against 7.5% across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Only 28% of households are parents with children in Creeslough
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.
Creeslough sits close to the norm on shared households of unrelated adults: 3.8%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Average household size: 2.2 people. To put it in context, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
7.6% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 76% 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
Just over a fifth of households have no car or van (Ireland’s towns: 17%). By way of comparison, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
Median household income here: €34,250 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of households are below €34,250 a year before tax: 43% under the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Donegal, the figure is €42,500.
Fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than 98% of Irish towns: 4.6%
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.
Residents born outside Ireland: 19%, below 66% of Irish towns. On average, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
6.4% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, a share 99% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
133 residents, 37% of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. The usual figure: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Creeslough sits above 99% of Irish towns for residents who describe themselves as White Irish (94%)
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 Creeslough · Co. Donegal’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
84% of residents said they are Catholic, against 71% across Ireland’s towns. After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (4.9%), Other, including mixed (0.5%) and Black or Black Irish (0.3%). Measured more widely, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of unpaid carers than 86% of Irish towns, at 4.3%
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 married residents 15 and over, Creeslough sits lower than 52% of Irish towns: 34%. Set beside that, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
27% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 72% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Across Ireland’s towns, 9.7% of adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Creeslough, 23%, and 7.9% hold a postgraduate qualification. The share of adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns is 36%.
No nearby town is as old as Creeslough
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 Creeslough’s residents
What is the population of Creeslough?
Creeslough had 398 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Creeslough?
The median age is 47.6. 19% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Creeslough?
37% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (133 people), and 6.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Creeslough?
94% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 19% were born abroad and 4.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Creeslough?
84% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 4.9% another religion; 7.3% didn’t say.
Is Creeslough good for families?
28% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 19% of residents are under 18. Schools near Creeslough are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Creeslough?
Median gross household income in Creeslough was €34,250 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).