Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0A lower share of households in flats than 98% of Irish towns, at 1.4%
A household here has 3.2 people on average; across Ireland’s towns, 2.7. Ballybrittas counted 435 residents and 141 households at the 2022 Census. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish account for 93%. At 55%, the share of households of parents with children is higher than in 92% of Irish towns.
Ballybrittas grew +19% from 2016 to 2022, ahead of 87% 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, half of towns changed by more than +8%; across Co. Laois’ towns, by more than +8%.
Ballybrittas ranks below 86% of Irish towns on residents aged 65 and over: 8.3%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 10–14: just over one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across Ireland’s towns. With a median age of 36, Ballybrittas is younger than 71% of Irish towns. Across Ballybrittas, 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Laois 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
3.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 97% 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, 34% of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Ballybrittas, 49% and 11%. The benchmark for residents who moved in within the year across Ireland’s towns: 7.5%.
Only 2.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Ballybrittas
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Laois’ towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
The figure for one-person households is 17% in Ballybrittas and 24% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is 4.7%.
Ballybrittas sits below 97% of Irish towns for households without a car or van (4.5%)
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
Broadband: 93% of households. The comparison figure for households without a car or van is 17% across Ireland’s towns. No internet at all: 5.3% (typical: 7.6%).
€83,970 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.
Households here have a median gross income of €83,970, 40% higher than across Ireland (€60,120). Co. Laois’s median household income is €59,520.
11% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 97% 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.
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the UK (4.8%) and outside the EU and UK (2.5%). Fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than in 99% of Irish towns: 2.1%. To put it in context, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
1.5% of Ballybrittas’ residents use Irish every day 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
The ability to speak Irish extends to 204 residents (51% of those aged 3 and over). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1%.
No religion: 11% of residents, a lower share than 90% 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: 93% of Ballybrittas · Co. Laois’ towns 84% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the largest groups are Asian or Asian Irish (3.1%), Other White (2.2%) and Black or Black Irish (1.4%). The wider picture: 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. At 81%, the share of residents who said they are Catholic is higher than in 92% of Irish towns.
39% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 84% of Irish towns don’t reach
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.
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 5.7%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
40% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, more than in 59% 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 Ballybrittas, 5.7%, and 15% hold a postgraduate qualification. Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Ballybrittas and its 6 nearest towns: 3 of them are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballybrittas | 435 | — | 36 | 8.3% | 55% |
| Monasterevin | 5,307 | 6.3 km | 35.2 | 9.9% | 51% |
| Portarlington | 9,288 | 6.5 km | 36.4 | 10% | 50% |
| Stradbally | 1,404 | 10.5 km | 43.4 | 21% | 41% |
| Mountmellick | 4,905 | 12.7 km | 37.6 | 14% | 49% |
| Portlaoise | 23,494 | 13.2 km | 35.9 | 9.5% | 50% |
| Rathangan | 3,263 | 15.7 km | 35 | 9.2% | 54% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Laois’ towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Laois 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 Ballybrittas’s residents
What is the population of Ballybrittas?
Ballybrittas had 435 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 19% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballybrittas?
The median age is 36. 30% are under 18 and 8.3% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballybrittas?
51% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (204 people), and 1.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballybrittas?
93% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 11% were born abroad and 2.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballybrittas?
81% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 8.4% another religion; 3.9% didn’t say.
Is Ballybrittas good for families?
55% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballybrittas are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballybrittas?
Median gross household income in Ballybrittas was €83,970 in 2022, against €59,520 across Co. Laois 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).