Photo: Seansweeney1 at English Wikipedia · Public domainIn Ballinamore, 9.4% of homes are holiday homes, more than in 98% of Irish towns
2.1% of households are unrelated adults living together, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. Residents who said they are Catholic are more common here than in 85% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 1,112 residents and 467 households in Ballinamore. Here, 36% of households are parents with children.
What stands out about the people of Ballinamore
One home in 11 is a holiday home
About 60 of 640 homes were empty holiday homes on Census night (9.4%), more than in 98% of Irish towns; 15% were vacant. Homes & cars ↓
Many older residents
20% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 91% of Irish towns; 5.6% are 80 or over, and 40% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Growing faster than most
Ballinamore went from about 950 people in 2016 to 1,112 in 2022, +17%: faster growth than in 85% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Faster growth than 85% of Irish towns: Ballinamore 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.
Set beside +8% across Ireland’s towns and +10% across Co. Leitrim’s towns.
Ballinamore ranks above 91% of Irish towns on residents aged 65 and over: 20%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Half of Ballinamore’s residents are over 39.3, older than in 69% of Irish towns. Locally, just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24. On average, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Mohill, the oldest of Co. Leitrim’s towns by this measure, it is 26%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Leitrim 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Above 54% of Irish towns: 11% of residents 15 and over are students
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
12% of workers are in caring, leisure and other services, against a typical 8.3%. Set beside that, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. For Ballinamore, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 7.1%.
A larger share of one-person households than 99% of Irish towns: 40%
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Leitrim’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Households average 2.3 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Typically, 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Households without a car or van: 25%, a higher share than 77% 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
At home, 81% have broadband, while 17% have no internet access (typical: 7.6%). Every 4th household or so has no car or van, the highest share in Co. Leitrim. Households in flats: 13% of the total.
€40,360 a year: the median household income
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 €40,360 a year, 33% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). In Co. Leitrim overall, the median comes to €45,270.
Residents born outside Ireland: 26%, a higher share than 67% 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.
At home, 16% use another language, chiefly Polish (3.6%), and 1.2% speak English not well or not at all. Compared with other places, residents with another country’s citizenship are common here: 17%, more than in just over three fifths of Irish towns. Elsewhere, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
An Irish-speaking town: 1.8% speak it daily 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
Speakers of Irish: 408 residents, just over two fifths of those aged 3 and over. It is the highest share of Co. Leitrim’s 6 towns of 2,500+. As a yardstick, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 92% of Irish towns, at 10%
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: 76% of Ballinamore · Co. Leitrim’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White Irish, the biggest groups are Other White (11%), Black or Black Irish (7.4%) and Other, including mixed (2.9%). Across Ireland’s towns, 17% of residents said they have no religion. Where 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns, Ballinamore has 76%.
6.5% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 90% 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 figure for married residents 15 and over is 32% in Ballinamore and 34% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
Only 33% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher in Ballinamore
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate qualifications are held by nearly one in ten adults here, while 12% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). The wider picture: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Ballinamore sits below 1 of its 3 closest neighbours on median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballinamore | 1,112 | — | 39.3 | 20% | 36% |
| Mohill | 1,027 | 14.9 km | 44.3 | 26% | 38% |
| Drumshanbo | 1,240 | 15.4 km | 39.2 | 19% | 44% |
| Ballyconnell | 1,422 | 16.3 km | 36.4 | 13% | 43% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Leitrim’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Leitrim 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 Ballinamore’s residents
What is the population of Ballinamore?
Ballinamore had 1,112 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 17% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballinamore?
The median age is 39.3. 27% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballinamore?
41% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (408 people), and 1.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballinamore?
76% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 26% were born abroad and 17% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballinamore?
78% are Catholic, 10% have no religion and 11% another religion; 6.3% didn’t say.
Is Ballinamore good for families?
36% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 27% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballinamore are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballinamore?
Median gross household income in Ballinamore was €40,360 in 2022, against €45,270 across Co. Leitrim 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).