Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 32.8: Manorcunningham is younger than 94% of Irish towns
Where 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns, Manorcunningham has 1.3%. Fewer households in flats than in 99% of Irish towns: 0.7%. At the 2022 Census, 830 people lived locally, in 304 households. Across Manorcunningham, nearly one in ten residents said they have no religion.
A +8% change since 2016: faster than 53% 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.
Below 81% of Irish towns: 9.6% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 0–4, with one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than in 86% of Irish towns: 11%. Set beside that, 14% of residents are 65 or over 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%.
Only 4.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Manorcunningham
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
Nothing unusual on students among residents 15 and over: 9.5%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year make up 7.5% across Ireland’s towns.
Manorcunningham sits above 82% of Irish towns for households of parents with children (51%)
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.
At 2.8 people, the average household compares with 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. The share of households of parents with children across Ireland’s towns is 43%. On the census count, 24% of households are one person living alone.
Households without a car or van: 9.3%, a lower share than 78% 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
Broadband: 87% of households. As a yardstick, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Compared with other places, holiday homes are common here: 0.3%, more than in 58% of Irish towns. No internet at all: 12% (typical: 7.6%).
The median household brings in €41,470 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Manorcunningham’s households have a gross income below €41,470 a year, 31% under the median for Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Donegal, the figure is €42,500.
Below 97% of Irish towns: 6% of residents are citizens of another country
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.
Another language is spoken at home by 7.1%, most often Polish (1.8%); 0.7% speak English not well or not at all. Just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland, a lower share than in 55% of Irish towns. To put it in context, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
Can speak Irish: 28% of Manorcunningham’s residents
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
In all, 210 residents aged 3 and over (28%) can speak Irish. Fewer daily speakers of Irish outside education than in 74% of Irish towns: 0.8%.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 87% of Irish towns: 88%
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: 88% of Manorcunningham · Co. Donegal’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
On religion, 8.8% answered “no religion”, 76% Catholic and 15% another religion, against 17% and 71% across Ireland’s towns. For residents who describe themselves as White Irish, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 78%. Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (6.6%), Irish Traveller (3.4%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.9%).
Married residents 15 and over make up 32% in Manorcunningham, less than in 67% 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.
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 5.9%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
Only 24% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher in Manorcunningham
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: 18%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of adults with a degree or higher is 36%. Postgraduate: 5.6% of adults.
Manorcunningham is younger than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manorcunningham | 830 | — | 32.8 | 9.6% | 51% |
| Letterkenny | 22,549 | 7.1 km | 35.7 | 12% | 43% |
| Newtowncunningham | 1,192 | 8.8 km | 36.1 | 12% | 55% |
| Raphoe | 1,161 | 9.0 km | 40.1 | 20% | 41% |
| Ramelton | 1,288 | 9.8 km | 41.5 | 18% | 41% |
| Convoy | 1,702 | 10.2 km | 37.5 | 17% | 47% |
| Lifford | 1,613 | 15.6 km | 39.1 | 16% | 43% |
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 Manorcunningham’s residents
What is the population of Manorcunningham?
Manorcunningham had 830 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Manorcunningham?
The median age is 32.8. 32% are under 18 and 9.6% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Manorcunningham?
28% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (210 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Manorcunningham?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 21% were born abroad and 6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Manorcunningham?
76% are Catholic, 8.8% have no religion and 15% another religion; 2.9% didn’t say.
Is Manorcunningham good for families?
51% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 32% of residents are under 18. Schools near Manorcunningham are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Manorcunningham?
Median gross household income in Manorcunningham was €41,470 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).