Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0Shared households of unrelated adults make up 14% in Rahoon, more than in 86% of Irish towns
Residents who said they are Catholic make up 61%, against 71% across Ireland’s towns. With a median age of 35.2, Rahoon is younger than 78% of Irish towns. The neighbourhood is home to 3,486 residents in 1,238 households, by the 2022 Census. Here, nearly two in five households are parents with children.
Rahoon grew +13% from 2016 to 2022, ahead of 79% 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.
A lower share of residents aged 65 and over than 70% of Irish towns, at 11%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Across Ireland’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24; in Rahoon, 13%. More residents are 35–39 than any other five-year age: 8.9% of residents. As a reference point, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Rahoon, 35.2. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Galway 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
A higher share of students among residents 15 and over than 81% of Irish towns, at 13%
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 Rahoon comes in at 13%. To put it in context, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of one-person households than 72% of Irish towns: 20%
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.
The average household has 2.9 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Rahoon ranks below 66% of Irish towns on households without a car or van: 14%
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
5% of households have no internet access (typical: 7.6%); 94% have broadband. In one household in 7 there is no car or van. Households in flats are rarer here than in 63% of Irish towns.
Median gross household income: €66,190 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Rahoon’s households have a gross income above €66,190 a year, 10% above the median for Ireland (€60,120). Co. Galway as a whole has a median of €59,640.
A higher share of residents born outside Ireland than 69% of Irish towns, at 27%
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.
At home, 23% use another language, chiefly Polish (3.7%), and 2% speak English not well or not at all. Compared with other places, residents with another country’s citizenship are common here: 17%, more than in 60% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, residents born outside Ireland come to 22%.
Above 98% of Irish towns: 2.7% of residents speak Irish daily 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
Speakers of Irish: 1,304 residents, 43% of those aged 3 and over. Across the comparison, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
More residents with no religion than 81% of Irish towns: 24%
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: 70% of Rahoon · Co. Galway’s towns 72% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish; in Rahoon, 70%. Set beside that, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Other than White Irish, most residents describe themselves as Other White (13%), Asian or Asian Irish (8.2%) and Irish Traveller (3.5%).
A smaller share of married residents 15 and over than 68% of Irish towns: 32%
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.
5.4% of residents give unpaid care, a higher share than in 50% of Irish towns. On average, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Rahoon: 51% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, above 80% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, a quarter of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 6.1% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
In its size band (2,959 to 4,111), the 11th youngest of 41 towns
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Taylor's Hill is the youngest (31.8); Newcastle the oldest (42.5). Nearest to Rahoon in age: Annacotty (35), Rathangan (35), Newtownmountkennedy (35.5) and Ballynanty (35.7).
Rahoon sits below 3 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rahoon | 3,486 | — | 35.2 | 11% | 39% |
| Dangan | 4,621 | 0.8 km | 27.5 | 13% | 27% |
| Newcastle | 4,032 | 1.1 km | 42.5 | 28% | 24% |
| Taylor's Hill | 3,141 | 1.3 km | 31.8 | 14% | 36% |
| Salthill | 5,445 | 2.2 km | 40.4 | 20% | 27% |
| Knocknacarra | 18,398 | 2.3 km | 38 | 11% | 44% |
| Woodquay and Nuns Island | 4,948 | 2.4 km | 32.1 | 11% | 11% |
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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas
Questions about Rahoon’s residents
What is the population of Rahoon?
Rahoon had 3,486 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 13% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Rahoon?
The median age is 35.2, younger than 78% of Irish towns. 23% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Rahoon?
43% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,304 people), and 2.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Rahoon?
70% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 27% were born abroad and 17% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Rahoon?
61% are Catholic, 24% have no religion and 15% another religion; 9.9% didn’t say.
Is Rahoon good for families?
39% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Rahoon are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Rahoon?
Median gross household income in Rahoon was €66,190 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 · Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas. 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).