Photo: Ostendali · CC BY-SA 3.0A median age of 44.6: Glenbeigh is older than 98% of Irish towns
24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns, against 34% in Glenbeigh. The census found that 9% of residents said they have no religion here. This Co. Kerry town has more holiday homes than 99% of Irish towns, at 41%. The 2022 Census put the town’s population at 426, in 173 households.
Faster growth than 85% of Irish towns: Glenbeigh changed by +17% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +2% across Co. Kerry’s towns.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 98% of Irish towns, at 24%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
With residents aged 15 to 24 at 7.3%, Glenbeigh is behind 99% of Irish towns on that count. For comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
4.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 92% 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
Across Ireland’s towns, just over a third of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Glenbeigh, 42% and 15%. By way of comparison, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Glenbeigh households average 2.4 people, smaller than in 87% 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.
Set against 43% across Ireland’s towns, 36% of households are parents with children in Glenbeigh. In Glenbeigh, 2.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
A smaller share of households in flats than 81% of Irish towns: 6.9%
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
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 17%; Glenbeigh has 9.6%. The wider picture: just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
€42,230 a year: where the middle household sits
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €42,230 a year before tax, the median household income is 30% under that of Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Kerry, the middle household has €48,320.
Glenbeigh ranks below 91% of Irish towns on residents with another country’s citizenship: 7.4%
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.
Most residents from abroad were born in the UK (11%) or outside the EU and UK (2.6%). Compared with other places, residents born outside Ireland are scarce here: 16%, fewer than in just over four fifths of Irish towns. The usual figure: 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
Glenbeigh: 1.6% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, above 81% of Irish towns
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
Irish speakers number 161, or just over two in five residents aged 3 and over. As a reference point, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Glenbeigh: 92% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, above 98% of Irish towns
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 Glenbeigh · Co. Kerry’s towns 73% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
86% of residents said they are Catholic, against 71% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 78%. After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (7.4%), Other, including mixed (0.5%) and Black or Black Irish (0.2%).
More married residents 15 and over than 86% of Irish towns: 39%
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.
6.6% of residents give unpaid care (Ireland’s towns: 5.4%). The usual figure: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Glenbeigh sits below 64% of Irish towns for adults with a degree or higher (31%)
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
9.2% of Glenbeigh’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 13% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). As a yardstick, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Glenbeigh is older than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenbeigh | 426 | — | 44.6 | 24% | 36% |
| Killorglin | 2,163 | 11.1 km | 40.6 | 17% | 39% |
| Milltown | 1,118 | 17.8 km | 37.7 | 14% | 52% |
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 Glenbeigh’s residents
What is the population of Glenbeigh?
Glenbeigh had 426 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 17% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Glenbeigh?
The median age is 44.6. 22% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Glenbeigh?
42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (161 people), and 1.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Glenbeigh?
92% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 7.4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Glenbeigh?
86% are Catholic, 9% have no religion and 5.1% another religion; 3.8% didn’t say.
Is Glenbeigh good for families?
36% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Glenbeigh are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Glenbeigh?
Median gross household income in Glenbeigh was €42,230 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).