Photo: Redmond O'Brien · CC BY-SA 2.0Fiddown sits below 98% of Irish towns for households in flats (1.3%)
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 90%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. At the 2022 Census, 410 people lived in Fiddown, in 149 households. Across Fiddown, 8.3% of residents are 65 or over. Compared with other places, households of parents with children are common here: 48%, more than in 74% of Irish towns.
+10% since 2016, a pace 61% of Irish towns didn’t match
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; +4% across Co. Kilkenny’s towns.
Half of Fiddown is under 36.1, younger than 70% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 40–44: 9.5% of residents. In Graiguenamanagh-Tinnahinch, the oldest of Co. Kilkenny’s towns by this measure, it is 22%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Kilkenny 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 85% 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
The share of students among residents 15 and over tops 73% of Irish towns: 12%. The wider picture: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Fiddown households average 2.8 people, larger than in 64% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Kilkenny’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
The share of one-person households is 22%, against 24% across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
In Fiddown, 6.3% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 92% 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
9.3% of households have no internet access (typical: 7.6%); 81% have broadband. Across Fiddown, 0.6% of homes are holiday homes. Set beside that, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
€62,300 a year is the median household income here
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
The median household earns €62,300 gross, about the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Kilkenny comes in at €58,190 at the median.
Residents born outside Ireland make up 13% in Fiddown, less than in 90% 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.
7.1% of residents are citizens of another country (Ireland’s towns: 15%). Across Ireland’s towns, residents born outside Ireland come to 22%. Most residents from abroad were born in the UK (4.7%) or outside the EU and UK (4%).
Daily speakers of Irish outside education make up 0.5% in Fiddown, less than in 96% 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 181 residents (47% of those aged 3 and over). The highest share in Co. Kilkenny belongs to Kilkenny (1.3%). The usual figure: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
75% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 74% 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 Fiddown · Co. Kilkenny’s towns 86% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents with no religion stands at 16%. As a reference point, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
In Fiddown, 6.8% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 95% 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.
With married residents 15 and over at 33%, Fiddown is behind 63% of Irish towns on that count. The benchmark for unpaid carers across Ireland’s towns: 5.4%.
Adults with a degree or higher make up 25% in Fiddown, less than in 76% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Primary level or earlier: 8%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Postgraduate: 4.2% of adults.
Older than Fiddown: 5 of the 6 towns nearby
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. Kilkenny’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Kilkenny has fewer than five towns of 2,500 or more, so its figure is the median of its towns of 1,000 or more; the national figure is the median of 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 Fiddown’s residents
What is the population of Fiddown?
Fiddown had 410 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 10% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Fiddown?
The median age is 36.1. 30% are under 18 and 8.3% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Fiddown?
47% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (181 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Fiddown?
90% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 13% were born abroad and 7.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Fiddown?
75% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 8.6% another religion; 3.4% didn’t say.
Is Fiddown good for families?
48% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Fiddown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Fiddown?
Median gross household income in Fiddown was €62,300 in 2022, against €58,190 across Co. Kilkenny 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).