Photo: Joseph Mischyshyn · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 96% of Irish towns: half of Kinvarra is over 43.8
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 87%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes are more common here than in 99% of Irish towns. At the 2022 Census Kinvarra was home to 721 people in 285 households. One-person households account for 27%.
Slower growth than 86% of Irish towns: Kinvarra changed by +1% since 2016
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.
Set beside +8% across Ireland’s towns and +7% across Co. Galway’s towns.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 10% in Kinvarra, less than in 90% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Set against 14% across Ireland’s towns, 15% of residents are 65 or over in Kinvarra. 50–54 is the most common age band: 9.7% of residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Galway 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
Above 90% of Irish towns: 14% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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
Across Ireland’s towns, 10% of residents 15 and over are students; in Kinvarra, 12%. Residents who moved in within the year: 7.5% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
A larger share of households of parents with children than 65% of Irish towns: 46%
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.
Against a figure of 4.7% across Ireland’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults in Kinvarra comes in at 3.5%. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households of parents with children is 43%. On average, 2.6 people share a household.
Kinvarra ranks below 87% of Irish towns on households without a car or van: 7.4%
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
7.7% of households live in a flat or apartment; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 12%. Elsewhere, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
€65,960 a year: where the middle household sits
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Before tax, the middle household here has €65,960 a year, 10% more than the Ireland median (€60,120). In Co. Galway overall, the median comes to €59,640.
A smaller share of residents with another country’s citizenship than 86% of Irish towns: 8.2%
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.
Most residents from abroad were born in the UK (9.2%) or outside the EU and UK (4.5%). The usual figure: 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Few places have so few residents born outside Ireland: 18% here, fewer than in two thirds of Irish towns.
Irish speakers make up 53% of Kinvarra
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
Little separates the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education here, 1.2%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Irish speakers number 355, or 53% of residents aged 3 and over. The highest share in Co. Galway belongs to Knocknacarra (4.5%).
In Kinvarra, 27% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 88% 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: 87% of Kinvarra · Co. Galway’s towns 72% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (9.5%), Other, including mixed (1.9%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.1%). Residents with no religion make up 17% across Ireland’s towns. Compared with 71% across Ireland’s towns, 70% of residents said they are Catholic here.
A larger share of unpaid carers than 99% of Irish towns: 8.3%
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.
Married residents 15 and over: 40% here and 34% across Ireland’s towns. On average, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
Kinvarra ranks above 84% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 54%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate: just over a quarter of adults. As a yardstick, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Primary level or earlier: 3.6%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
Every nearby town is younger than Kinvarra
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. 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 Kinvarra’s residents
What is the population of Kinvarra?
Kinvarra had 721 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 1% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Kinvarra?
The median age is 43.8. 26% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Kinvarra?
53% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (355 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Kinvarra?
87% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 8.2% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Kinvarra?
70% are Catholic, 27% have no religion and 3.4% another religion; 2.4% didn’t say.
Is Kinvarra good for families?
46% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Kinvarra are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Kinvarra?
Median gross household income in Kinvarra was €65,960 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).