Photo: Chris · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 50.1: Ballylongford is older than 99% of Irish towns
The share of shared households of unrelated adults is 1.1%, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. Ballylongford is home to 415 residents in 186 households, by the 2022 Census. Nearly one in ten residents said they have no religion. More holiday homes than in 98% of Irish towns: 8.6%.
Slower growth than 91% of Irish towns: Ballylongford changed by ±0% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns the median change is +8%; across Co. Kerry’s towns, +2%.
26% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 99% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
70–74 is the most common age band: 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. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 12%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Kerry 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Only 5.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Ballylongford
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 10% across Ireland’s towns, the share of students among residents 15 and over in Ballylongford comes in at 11%. Measured more widely, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Above 95% of Irish towns: 35% of households are one person living alone
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Kerry’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households of parents with children is 43%; Ballylongford has 37%. On average, 2.3 people share a household. As a yardstick, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Ballylongford ranks below 96% of Irish towns on households in flats: 2.2%
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
Set against 17% across Ireland’s towns, 16% of households have no car or van in Ballylongford. By way of comparison, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
The median household brings in €42,000 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
The median household earns €42,000 gross, 30% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Kerry as a whole has a median of €48,320.
Fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than 94% of Irish towns: 7.1%
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 30%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
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.
French leads the languages spoken at home (0.7%), among the 4% who speak another language there; 0.2% speak English not well or not at all. On average, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Born outside Ireland: 20% of residents, against 22% across Ireland’s towns.
Irish speakers: 39% of Ballylongford’s residents
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
155 residents, nearly two fifths of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Ballylongford has fewer daily speakers of Irish outside education than nearly three quarters of Irish towns, at 0.8%.
More residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 98% of Irish towns: 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 Ballylongford · Co. Kerry’s towns 73% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (5.4%), Asian or Asian Irish (1.5%) and Other, including mixed (0.7%). Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 78% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. Higher than in 99% of Irish towns: 87% of residents said they are Catholic.
Ballylongford: 41% of residents 15 and over are married, above 93% 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.
In Ballylongford, 6.7% of residents give unpaid care, beside 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
In Ballylongford, 17% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 93% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Ballylongford’s adults, 4.1% went on to postgraduate study and 18% left at primary level or earlier (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.
The towns around Ballylongford are all younger
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballylongford | 415 | — | 50.1 | 26% | 37% |
| Kilrush | 2,649 | 9.8 km | 44.1 | 24% | 36% |
| Listowel | 4,794 | 11.3 km | 42.6 | 21% | 38% |
| Ballybunion | 1,618 | 13.4 km | 44.4 | 24% | 36% |
| Kilkee | 1,214 | 17.8 km | 48.5 | 26% | 24% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Kerry’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Kerry’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 Ballylongford’s residents
What is the population of Ballylongford?
Ballylongford had 415 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Ballylongford?
The median age is 50.1. 19% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballylongford?
39% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (155 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballylongford?
92% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 20% were born abroad and 7.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballylongford?
87% are Catholic, 8.8% have no religion and 4.6% another religion; 1% didn’t say.
Is Ballylongford good for families?
37% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 19% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballylongford are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballylongford?
Median gross household income in Ballylongford was €42,000 in 2022, against €48,320 across Co. Kerry 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).