Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 43.9: Ballymore Eustace is older than 96% of Irish towns
90% of residents describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%). Ballymore Eustace is home to 689 residents in 263 households, by the 2022 Census. The census found that nearly one in ten households have no car or van here. At 2.3%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is lower than in 92% of Irish towns.
From 2016 to 2022, 69% of Irish towns grew faster than Ballymore Eustace: +5%
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.
For comparison, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +14% across Co. Kildare’s towns.
Ballymore Eustace ranks above 88% of Irish towns on residents aged 65 and over: 20%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 60–64 than any other five-year age: 7.5% of residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Compared with other places, residents aged 15 to 24 are scarce here: 12%, fewer than in 59% of Irish towns. As a reference point, 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 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Kildare 51.0%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Fewer students among residents 15 and over than 91% of Irish towns: 8.2%
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
7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns, against 5.6% in Ballymore Eustace. Elsewhere, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Ballymore Eustace households average 2.7 people, smaller than in 55% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Kildare’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Across Ballymore Eustace, 43% of households are parents with children. The town has more one-person households than 52% of Irish towns, at 25%.
Households in flats: 2.3%, a lower share than 96% 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
The share of households with broadband is 90%; 8.1% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). For households in flats, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 12%. Across Ballymore Eustace, 1.7% of homes are holiday homes.
Median household income: €65,320 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Households here have a median gross income of €65,320, 9% higher than across Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Kildare, the figure is €73,000.
Only 7.2% of residents are citizens of another country in Ballymore Eustace
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 share of residents born outside Ireland trails 86% of Irish towns: 15%. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the UK (5.8%) and outside the EU and UK (5%).
0.2% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, below 99% 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
The ability to speak Irish extends to 238 residents (37% of those aged 3 and over). Across Ireland’s towns, daily speakers of Irish outside education come to 1.1%. In Co. Kildare, Maynooth has the highest share (2.2%).
75% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 75% 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: 90% of Ballymore Eustace · Co. Kildare’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (6.9%), Asian or Asian Irish (1.4%) and Other, including mixed (1.4%). Ballymore Eustace has more residents with no religion than 55% of Irish towns, at 18%. Measured more widely, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of married residents 15 and over than 94% of Irish towns, at 42%
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: 5.1%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
29% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 68% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Across Ireland’s towns, 9.7% of adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Ballymore Eustace, 9.2%, and 8.4% hold a postgraduate qualification. On average, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
No nearby town is as old as Ballymore Eustace
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Kildare’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Kildare’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 Ballymore Eustace’s residents
What is the population of Ballymore Eustace?
Ballymore Eustace had 689 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballymore Eustace?
The median age is 43.9. 21% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballymore Eustace?
37% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (238 people), and 0.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballymore Eustace?
90% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 7.2% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballymore Eustace?
75% are Catholic, 18% have no religion and 6.4% another religion; 3.2% didn’t say.
Is Ballymore Eustace good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 21% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballymore Eustace are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballymore Eustace?
Median gross household income in Ballymore Eustace was €65,320 in 2022, against €73,000 across Co. Kildare 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).