Photo: Padraigobrian · CC BY-SA 3.0Below 99% of Irish towns: 0.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 91%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. In Ballylanders, 21% of residents are 65 or over. 5.7% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 85% of Irish towns. At the 2022 Census Ballylanders was home to 337 people in 141 households.
+5% since 2016, a pace below 67% 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 the median change is +8%; across Co. Limerick’s towns, +9%.
Older than 73% of Irish towns: half of Ballylanders is over 39.5
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
40–44 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents. Few places have as many residents aged 15 to 24: 13% here, more than in nearly three fifths of Irish towns. In Farranshone, the oldest of Co. Limerick’s towns by this measure, it is 23%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Limerick 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
Only 3.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Ballylanders
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
Where 11% is typical, skilled trades take in just over a fifth of workers. As a yardstick, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns. 8.9% of residents 15 and over are students.
One-person homes: 40% of households in Ballylanders
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Limerick’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Across Ireland’s towns, households average 2.7 people; in Ballylanders, 2.3. To put it in context, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 42% of households are parents with children.
A holiday town: 1.8% of homes are holiday homes
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 reaches 78% of households; 20% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Few places have as many households without a car or van: 18% here, more than in 55% of Irish towns. The usual figure: 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns.
Median household income here: €44,500 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€44,500 a year before tax puts the median household 26% below Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Limerick overall, the median comes to €55,950.
In Ballylanders, 11% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 96% 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.
The figure for residents with another country’s citizenship is 4.6% in Ballylanders and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents born outside Ireland is 22%. At home, 10% use another language, chiefly Polish (3.6%), and 3% speak English not well or not at all.
In Ballylanders, 0.3% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 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
Farranshone leads Co. Limerick with 1.9%. Typically, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
7.6% said they have no religion, fewer than in 99% 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: 91% of Ballylanders · Co. Limerick’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 71% across Ireland’s towns, 86% of residents said they are Catholic in Ballylanders. Typically, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Next after White Irish come Other White (5.7%), Asian or Asian Irish (1.8%) and Other, including mixed (1.2%).
A smaller share of married residents 15 and over than 84% of Irish towns: 29%
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 is 6.8%, against 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
17% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 94% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
3.7% of Ballylanders’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 20% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Across the comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Ballylanders is younger than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballylanders | 337 | — | 39.5 | 21% | 42% |
| Mitchelstown | 3,744 | 12.7 km | 41.7 | 19% | 42% |
| Kilmallock | 1,761 | 16.1 km | 42.9 | 23% | 34% |
| Tipperary | 5,387 | 17.1 km | 40.3 | 18% | 38% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Limerick’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Limerick’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 Ballylanders’s residents
What is the population of Ballylanders?
Ballylanders had 337 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballylanders?
The median age is 39.5. 23% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballylanders?
36% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (114 people), and 0.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballylanders?
91% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 11% were born abroad and 4.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballylanders?
86% are Catholic, 7.6% have no religion and 6.6% another religion; 1.8% didn’t say.
Is Ballylanders good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballylanders are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballylanders?
Median gross household income in Ballylanders was €44,500 in 2022, against €55,950 across Co. Limerick 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).