Photo: Ian Capper · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 99% of Irish towns: half of Roundstone is over 52.1
Across Ireland’s towns, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes; in Roundstone, 48%. One-person households: 36% of the total. Few places have so few households of parents with children: 34% here, fewer than in 79% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 231 residents and 102 households in the town.
Since 2016, Roundstone has changed by +5%, slower than 70% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, half of towns changed by more than +8%; across Co. Galway’s towns, by more than +7%.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 99% of Irish towns, at 30%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 70–74, with nearly one in ten residents, 2.7 times the share across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. 9.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Galway 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
Roundstone sits below 99% of Irish towns for students among residents 15 and over (7%)
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 Roundstone comes in at 10%. 33% of the town’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 19% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 96% of Irish towns
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.
5.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 4.7%.
A lower share of households in flats than 84% of Irish towns, at 5.9%
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
A fifth of households have no car or van, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
Half above, half below €30,990 a year in household income
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 €30,990, 48% lower than across Ireland (€60,120). Co. Galway’s median household income is €59,640.
6.6% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 95% 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 largest groups were born in the UK (10%) and outside the EU and UK (3.6%). Set beside that, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Compared with other places, residents born outside Ireland are scarce here: 17%, fewer than in 77% of Irish towns.
Irish: 38% of Roundstone’s residents can speak it
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, 1.4%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. In all, 83 residents aged 3 and over (38%) can speak Irish.
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 98% of Irish towns, at 92%
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: 92% of Roundstone · Co. Galway’s towns 72% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (7%), Asian or Asian Irish (0.9%) and Other, including mixed (0.5%). Typically, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. More residents who said they are Catholic than in 89% of Irish towns: 80%. Meanwhile, in Roundstone, 15% of residents said they have no religion, beside 17% across Ireland’s towns.
Roundstone sits above 99% of Irish towns for unpaid carers (12%)
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.
Just over a third of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns, against 33% in Roundstone. The usual figure: 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 67% of Irish towns: 29%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, one in ten adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 19% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Typically, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
The places around Roundstone
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roundstone | 231 | — | 52.1 | 30% | 34% |
| Clifden | 1,259 | 11.8 km | 44.3 | 23% | 36% |
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 Roundstone’s residents
What is the population of Roundstone?
Roundstone had 231 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Roundstone?
The median age is 52.1. 17% are under 18 and 30% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Roundstone?
38% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (83 people), and 1.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Roundstone?
92% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 17% were born abroad and 6.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Roundstone?
80% are Catholic, 15% have no religion and 5.5% another religion; 4.8% didn’t say.
Is Roundstone good for families?
34% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 17% of residents are under 18. Schools near Roundstone are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Roundstone?
Median gross household income in Roundstone was €30,990 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).