Photo: Sarah777 · Public domainBelow 99% of Irish towns: 1.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home
Compared with 0.2% across Ireland’s towns, 3.6% of homes are holiday homes here. Residents with no religion account for 7.7%. A fifth of residents are 65 or over, more than in 91% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 186 residents and 68 households in Ahascragh.
A change of +2% since 2016 leaves Ahascragh behind 82% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +7% across Co. Galway’s towns.
Older than 83% of Irish towns: half of Ahascragh is over 40.8
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 11%, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. No age band is larger than 55–59: 9.7% of residents, 1.8 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Galway 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
Only 6.9% of residents 15 and over are students in Ahascragh
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
Work here tilts toward skilled trades, at 23% against a typical 11%. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 1.1% in Ahascragh. Typically, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer one-person households than 73% of Irish towns: 19%
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Galway’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
In Ahascragh, 47% of households are parents with children, beside 43% across Ireland’s towns. Typically, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns. Households here average 2.7 people each.
In Ahascragh, 14% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 66% 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
10% of households live in a flat or apartment; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 12%. Every 7th household or so has no car or van.
€56,300 a year is the median household income here
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Households here have a median gross income of €56,300, 6% lower than across Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Galway overall, the median comes to €59,640.
In Ahascragh, 11% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 96% 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 35%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
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.
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the UK (7.6%) and elsewhere in the EU (1.6%). Set beside that, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Lower than in 99% of Irish towns: 3.3% of residents are citizens of another country.
1.2% of residents speak Irish every day outside education
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
Within Co. Galway, Knocknacarra has the largest share, 4.5%. As a yardstick, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Residents who said they are Catholic make up 90% in Ahascragh, more than in 99% 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: 84% of Ahascragh · Co. Galway’s towns 72% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White Irish, the main groups are Irish Traveller (8.3%), Other White (5%) and Black or Black Irish (1.1%). For residents who said they are Catholic, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 71%. On residents who describe themselves as White Irish, Ahascragh sits higher than just over three quarters of Irish towns: 84%.
More unpaid carers than 99% of Irish towns: 11%
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.
48% of Ahascragh’s residents 15 and over are single and 40% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
Ahascragh ranks below 92% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 18%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
6.7% of Ahascragh’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 15% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The benchmark for adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns: 36%.
The places around Ahascragh
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahascragh | 186 | — | 40.8 | 20% | 47% |
| Ballinasloe | 6,597 | 10.9 km | 38.5 | 19% | 41% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Galway’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Galway’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 Ahascragh’s residents
What is the population of Ahascragh?
Ahascragh had 186 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ahascragh?
The median age is 40.8. 27% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ahascragh?
43% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (74 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ahascragh?
84% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 11% were born abroad and 3.3% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ahascragh?
90% are Catholic, 7.7% have no religion and 2.7% another religion; 2.2% didn’t say.
Is Ahascragh good for families?
47% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 27% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ahascragh are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ahascragh?
Median gross household income in Ahascragh was €56,300 in 2022, against €59,640 across Co. Galway 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).