Photo: Sleepyhead2 · CC BY-SA 3.0A median age of 47: Mín Lárach is older than 99% of Irish towns
Across Ireland’s towns, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish; in Mín Lárach, 97%. At the 2022 Census, 453 people lived locally, in 171 households. Locally, 27% of homes are holiday homes. 28% of households are one person living alone, more than in 68% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Mín Lárach
Irish spoken every day, in the Gaeltacht
60% of residents speak Irish every day outside education, more than in 99% of Irish towns; 88% can speak it. Mín Lárach is in the Gaeltacht. Irish speakers ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
In Mín Lárach, 60% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, more than in 99% of Irish towns
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
Mín Lárach is in the Gaeltacht, the districts where Irish is the community language. Irish speakers number 385, or 88% of residents aged 3 and over.
+5% since 2016, a pace below 65% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +6% across Co. Donegal’s towns.
In Mín Lárach, 9.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 97% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over, a higher share than in 91% of Irish towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Donegal 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Mín Lárach sits below 99% of Irish towns for students among residents 15 and over (6.9%)
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
Against a figure of 7.5% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year in Mín Lárach comes in at 6.1%. As a yardstick, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Households here average 2.6 people, below 62% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Across Mín Lárach, 42% of households are parents with children.
Households without a car or van make up 13% in Mín Lárach, less than in 69% 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
24% of households have no internet access (typical: 7.6%); 64% have broadband. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Across the comparison, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Median gross household income: €35,160 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
A median gross household income of €35,160 sits 42% below Ireland (€60,120). That compares with €42,500 across Co. Donegal.
Below 99% of Irish towns: 3.1% 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.
3.4% speak a language other than English at home, French most of all (1.5%); 0.4% speak English not well or not at all. For residents with another country’s citizenship, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 15%. Here 24% of residents were born outside Ireland, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 22%.
Mín Lárach ranks below 99% of Irish towns on residents with no religion: 2.7%
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: 97% of Mín Lárach · Co. Donegal’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns, against 96% in Mín Lárach. Across Ireland’s towns, residents with no religion come to 17%.
40% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 91% 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 make up 7.1%, against 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 74% of Irish towns, at 27%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A postgraduate qualification is the highest level for 6.8% of adults; primary level or less for 23% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The share of adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns is 36%.
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).
- Speaking Irish. CSO asks everyone aged 3 and over whether they can speak Irish and how often; “daily outside education” leaves out speaking it only at school.
- 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 Mín Lárach’s residents
What is the population of Mín Lárach?
Mín Lárach had 453 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Mín Lárach?
The median age is 47. 23% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Mín Lárach?
88% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (385 people), and 60% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Mín Lárach?
97% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 24% were born abroad and 3.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Mín Lárach?
96% are Catholic, 2.7% have no religion and 0.9% another religion; 1.1% didn’t say.
Is Mín Lárach good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Mín Lárach are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Mín Lárach?
Median gross household income in Mín Lárach was €35,160 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).