Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 42.4: Castleisland is older than 91% of Irish towns
Asked about religion, 8.3% answered none, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. Fewer households in flats than in just over four fifths of Irish towns: 6.4%. Castleisland’s 1,009 households held 2,536 residents at the 2022 Census. 30% of households are one person living alone.
What stands out about the people of Castleisland
Older than most towns
Half of Castleisland’s residents are under 42.4 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 20% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Slower than most: +2% since 2016, behind 84% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +2% across Co. Kerry’s towns.
In Castleisland, 20% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 91% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 35–39: nearly one in ten residents. Lower than in 89% of Irish towns: 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Measured more widely, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Listowel, the oldest of Co. Kerry’s towns by this measure, it is 21%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Castleisland, 42.4. 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. Kerry 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Students among residents 15 and over: 8.4%, a lower share than 89% 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
In Castleisland, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 29% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 16%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. 5.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 75% of Irish towns.
2.4 people per household, fewer than in 82% of Irish towns
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 3.7%, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. 42% of households are parents with children.
In Castleisland, 1% of homes are holiday homes, more than in 84% of Irish towns
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
Just over four in five households are on broadband; 16% have no internet connection (typical: 7.6%). The share of holiday homes across Ireland’s towns is 0.2%. Households without a car or van: 17% of the total.
The median household brings in €46,430 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 €46,430 gross, 23% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Kerry comes in at €48,320 at the median.
A smaller share of residents born outside Ireland than 82% of Irish towns: 16%
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.
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in Poland (5.7%) and in the UK (4%). At 11%, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship is lower than in nearly three quarters of Irish towns. The wider picture: 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
In Castleisland, 44% of residents can speak Irish
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
In all, 977 residents aged 3 and over (44%) can speak Irish. At 1.1%, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of residents who said they are Catholic than 99% of Irish towns, at 88%
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: 86% of Castleisland · Co. Kerry’s towns 73% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
With residents who describe themselves as White Irish at 86%, Castleisland is ahead of 84% of Irish towns on that count. To put it in context, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Besides White Irish, the main groups are Other White (10%), Asian or Asian Irish (1.6%) and Other, including mixed (1.1%).
Half of adults have never married
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.
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 5%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, just over a third of residents 15 and over are married.
Castleisland ranks below 81% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 24%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
6.4% of Castleisland’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 14% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). By way of comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 2,510 to 3,211 people, the 6th oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 30.4 in Kilbarry to 45.5 in Ballybrack. Nearest to Castleisland in age: Donegal (41.2), Togher (41.7), Bantry (43.5) and Boyle (43.8).
The places around Castleisland
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castleisland | 2,536 | — | 42.4 | 20% | 42% |
| Tralee | 26,079 | 16.7 km | 39.3 | 16% | 39% |
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 Castleisland’s residents
What is the population of Castleisland?
Castleisland had 2,536 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Castleisland?
The median age is 42.4, older than 91% of Irish towns. 21% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Castleisland?
44% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (977 people), and 1.1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Castleisland?
86% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Castleisland?
88% are Catholic, 8.3% have no religion and 4.1% another religion; 8.4% didn’t say.
Is Castleisland good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 21% of residents are under 18. Schools near Castleisland are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Castleisland?
Median gross household income in Castleisland was €46,430 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).