Photo: Raymond Norris · CC BY-SA 2.062% of households are parents with children, more than in 99% of Irish towns
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 1%, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. 2.1% of households have no car or van. On residents aged 65 and over, Fieries sits lower than 97% of Irish towns: 4.9%. The town counted 573 residents and 195 households at the 2022 Census.
Fieries’s population changed by +9% since 2016, more than in 60% 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 the median change is +8%; across Co. Kerry’s towns, +2%.
Fieries is younger than 71% of Irish towns: a median age of 36
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Locally, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24. In Listowel, the oldest of Co. Kerry’s towns by this measure, it is 21%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Kerry 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Fieries ranks below 99% of Irish towns on residents who moved in within the year: 2.3%
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, one in ten residents 15 and over are students; in Fieries, 14%. Elsewhere, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Larger households than 82% of Irish towns: 3 people on average
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.
One-person households are rarer here than in 53% of Irish towns.
A holiday town: 4.6% of homes are holiday homes
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
Connected households: 91% on broadband; 8.6% offline (typical: 7.6%). To put it in context, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
Household income at the median: €54,870 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€54,870 a year before tax puts the median household 9% below Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Kerry overall, the median comes to €48,320.
9.2% of residents are citizens of another country, below 81% 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 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.
16% speak another language at home, most often Polish (7.2%); 1.8% speak English not well or not at all. For residents with another country’s citizenship, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 15%. Fewer residents born outside Ireland than in 70% of Irish towns: 18%.
Below 96% of Irish towns: 0.5% 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
Within Co. Kerry, Tralee has the largest share, 1.3%. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1%.
Above 95% of Irish towns: 82% of residents said they are Catholic
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: 84% of Fieries · Co. Kerry’s towns 73% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 84%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 71% of residents said they are Catholic. 13% of residents said they have no religion.
35% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 60% 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.
Unpaid carers make up 5.9%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. On average, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
35% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 51% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
7.6% of Fieries’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 5.4% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Students still in education make up 17% of residents 15 and over. The share of adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns is 36%.
The towns around Fieries are all older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fieries | 573 | — | 36 | 4.9% | 62% |
| Milltown | 1,118 | 8.9 km | 37.7 | 14% | 52% |
| Castleisland | 2,536 | 11.3 km | 42.4 | 20% | 42% |
| Tralee | 26,079 | 13.1 km | 39.3 | 16% | 39% |
| Killarney | 14,412 | 14.2 km | 40 | 16% | 37% |
| Killorglin | 2,163 | 15.4 km | 40.6 | 17% | 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 Fieries’s residents
What is the population of Fieries?
Fieries had 573 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Fieries?
The median age is 36. 36% are under 18 and 4.9% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Fieries?
40% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (219 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Fieries?
84% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 9.2% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Fieries?
82% are Catholic, 13% have no religion and 4.8% another religion; 1.9% didn’t say.
Is Fieries good for families?
62% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 36% of residents are under 18. Schools near Fieries are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Fieries?
Median gross household income in Fieries was €54,870 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).