Photo: Willie Duffin · CC BY-SA 2.0Monivea sits above 94% of Irish towns for households of parents with children (57%)
Residents who said they are Catholic: 90% here and 71% across Ireland’s towns. Census day 2022: 456 residents and 157 households in Monivea. In Monivea, 4% of households have no car or van. At 1.9%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is lower than in 96% of Irish towns.
From 2016 to 2022, Monivea outgrew 91% of Irish towns: +21%
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.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 10%, a lower share than 90% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Half of Monivea’s residents are over 39.1, older than in just over two thirds of Irish towns. Set beside that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over account for 14%. In Newcastle, the oldest of Co. Galway’s towns by this measure, it is 28%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Galway 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
2.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 98% of Irish towns
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, just over a third of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Monivea, 51% and 17%. By way of comparison, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Only 17% of households are one person living alone in Monivea
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.
At 2.9 people, the average household compares with 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. The benchmark for one-person households across Ireland’s towns: 24%.
Monivea ranks below 99% of Irish towns on households in flats: 0.6%
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
In Monivea, 1.2% of homes are holiday homes, beside 0.2% across Ireland’s towns. Broadband: 95% of households. Households in flats make up 12% across Ireland’s towns.
€67,060 a year: the median household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Monivea’s households have a gross income above €67,060 a year, 12% above the median for Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Galway the median is €59,640.
5.4% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 98% 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.
The share of residents born outside Ireland is 14%, against 22% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, residents with another country’s citizenship come to 15%. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the UK (7.1%) and in Poland (2.4%).
In Monivea, 0.7% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 82% 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
Irish speakers number 171, or 41% of residents aged 3 and over. In Co. Galway, Knocknacarra has the highest share (4.5%). Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.1% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
Monivea: 90% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, above 97% 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: 90% of Monivea · Co. Galway’s towns 72% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion make up 9.3%, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (6.3%), Other, including mixed (2.9%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.7%).
Married residents 15 and over: 44%, a higher share than 98% 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.
The share of unpaid carers is 4.2%, against 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. To put it in context, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Monivea ranks above 58% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 40%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, just over one in ten adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 6.2% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Every neighbour of Monivea has a younger population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monivea | 456 | — | 39.1 | 14% | 57% |
| Athenry | 4,603 | 8.2 km | 36.8 | 11% | 47% |
| Craughwell | 1,034 | 16.0 km | 35.6 | 7.3% | 54% |
| Baile Chláir | 1,632 | 16.2 km | 34.6 | 5.6% | 54% |
| Tuam | 9,647 | 18.7 km | 38.1 | 13% | 41% |
| Oranmore | 5,819 | 19.2 km | 36.6 | 9.3% | 45% |
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 Monivea’s residents
What is the population of Monivea?
Monivea had 456 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 21% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Monivea?
The median age is 39.1. 26% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Monivea?
41% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (171 people), and 0.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Monivea?
90% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 14% were born abroad and 5.4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Monivea?
90% are Catholic, 9.3% have no religion and 0.9% another religion; 1.1% didn’t say.
Is Monivea good for families?
57% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Monivea are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Monivea?
Median gross household income in Monivea was €67,060 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).