Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 95%, a higher share than 99% of Irish towns
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 2.1%, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. With a median age of 36.1, Newtowncunningham is younger than 70% of Irish towns. This Co. Donegal town counted 1,192 residents and 431 households at the 2022 Census. Across Newtowncunningham, nearly one in ten households live in a flat or apartment.
What stands out about the people of Newtowncunningham
A town of families
37% of households are couples with children and 17% lone parents with children, more than in 91% of Irish towns; 25% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Growing more slowly than most
Newtowncunningham went from about 1,180 people in 2016 to 1,192 in 2022, +1%: slower growth than in 89% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A +1% change since 2016: slower than 89% 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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +6% across Co. Donegal’s towns.
Newtowncunningham sits below 64% of Irish towns for residents aged 65 and over (12%)
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
10–14 is the most common age band: one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns. The census found that 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Newtowncunningham.
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 2.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Newtowncunningham
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
28% of Newtowncunningham’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 22% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Newtowncunningham sits above 91% of Irish towns for households of parents with children (55%)
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.
The average household has 2.8 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. The benchmark for households of parents with children across Ireland’s towns: 43%. Here, 25% of households are one person living alone.
A larger share of holiday homes than 88% of Irish towns: 1.2%
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
Households without a car or van make up 15%, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns.
A median household income of €43,900 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€43,900 a year before tax puts the median household 27% below Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Donegal as a whole, the figure is €42,500.
Only 4.2% of residents are citizens of another country in Newtowncunningham
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 3.6%, most often Spanish (0.7%); 0.6% speak English not well or not at all. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship is 15%. Newtowncunningham has more residents born outside Ireland than 67% of Irish towns, at 26%.
25% of Newtowncunningham 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
Letterkenny leads Co. Donegal with 2.6%. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are more common here than in nearly three fifths of Irish towns.
8.3% of residents said they have no religion, below 98% of Irish towns
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: 95% of Newtowncunningham · Co. Donegal’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (3.3%), Asian or Asian Irish (0.6%) and Irish Traveller (0.5%). Across the comparison, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Newtowncunningham has more residents who said they are Catholic than 97% of Irish towns, at 84%.
Unpaid carers make up 6.3% in Newtowncunningham, more than in 85% 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.
Married residents 15 and over: just over a third of the total. About 80 residents (6.3%) give regular unpaid care (Ireland’s towns 5.4%).
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 80% of Irish towns: 24%
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, one in ten adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Newtowncunningham, 22%, and 6.2% hold a postgraduate qualification. The comparison figure for adults with a degree or higher is 36% across Ireland’s towns.
5 of the 6 nearest towns are older than Newtowncunningham
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 Newtowncunningham’s residents
What is the population of Newtowncunningham?
Newtowncunningham had 1,192 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Newtowncunningham?
The median age is 36.1. 30% are under 18 and 12% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Newtowncunningham?
25% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (280 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Newtowncunningham?
95% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 26% were born abroad and 4.2% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Newtowncunningham?
84% are Catholic, 8.3% have no religion and 7.9% another religion; 2.7% didn’t say.
Is Newtowncunningham good for families?
55% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Newtowncunningham are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Newtowncunningham?
Median gross household income in Newtowncunningham was €43,900 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).