Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Knightstown is over 51.1, older than 99% of Irish towns
The figure for holiday homes is 64% in Knightstown and 0.2% across Ireland’s towns. 244 residents in 92 households: that is Knightstown at the 2022 Census. Here, 32% of households are one person living alone. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White Irish are common here: 87%, more than in 85% of Irish towns.
Slower growth than 92% of Irish towns: Knightstown 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +2% across Co. Kerry’s towns.
Knightstown: 32% of residents are 65 or over, above 99% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 7.8%, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. More residents are 35–39 than any other five-year age: one in ten residents.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
A lower share of students among residents 15 and over than 97% of Irish towns, at 7.6%
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 Knightstown, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in just over a third of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 17%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 5.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Smaller households than 88% of Irish towns: 2.4 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.
Set against 43% across Ireland’s towns, just over a third of households are parents with children in Knightstown. Here, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
A lower share of households without a car or van than 75% of Irish towns, at 10%
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
73% have broadband at home and 8.1% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). The usual figure: 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
€41,180 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.
Before tax, the middle household here has €41,180 a year, 32% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Kerry’s median household income is €48,320.
Fewer residents born outside Ireland than 81% 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.
9.1% are citizens of another country (Ireland’s towns 15%). Across the comparison, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the UK (7.2%) and outside the EU and UK (5.5%).
1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 56% 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 80, or 39% of residents aged 3 and over. For daily speakers of Irish outside education, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 1.1%.
Residents who said they are Catholic: 81%, a higher share than 93% 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: 87% of Knightstown · Co. Kerry’s towns 73% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 14%, below 72% of Irish towns. The largest groups after White Irish are Asian or Asian Irish (7%), Other White (5.1%) and Other, including mixed (1.4%). Across Ireland’s towns, 71% of residents said they are Catholic.
41% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 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.
The share of unpaid carers tops 92% of Irish towns: 6.6%. Against that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 66% of Irish towns: 30%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Knightstown’s adults, 12% went on to postgraduate study and 11% left at primary level or earlier (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 Knightstown
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knightstown | 244 | — | 51.1 | 32% | 34% |
| Cahirciveen | 1,297 | 5.4 km | 43.6 | 23% | 28% |
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 Knightstown’s residents
What is the population of Knightstown?
Knightstown had 244 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Knightstown?
The median age is 51.1. 17% are under 18 and 32% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Knightstown?
39% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (80 people), and 1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Knightstown?
87% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 9.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Knightstown?
81% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 4.9% another religion; 8.6% didn’t say.
Is Knightstown good for families?
34% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 17% of residents are under 18. Schools near Knightstown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Knightstown?
Median gross household income in Knightstown was €41,180 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).