Photo: MrPONTEIRO · CC BY 3.0Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 96%, a higher share than 99% of Irish towns
Households in flats: 2% here and 12% across Ireland’s towns. At the 2022 Census, 3,030 people lived in Ballynanty, in 1,110 households. Here, 14% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Slower than most: +5% since 2016, behind 68% 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. Limerick’s towns, by more than +9%.
Ballynanty is younger than 73% of Irish towns: a median age of 35.7
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
17% of residents are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. More residents are 5–9 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Ballynanty, 35.7. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Limerick 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Below 99% of Irish towns: 2.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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, just over a third of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Ballynanty, 13% and 26%. The share of residents who moved in within the year across Ireland’s towns is 7.5%.
Ballynanty households average 2.8 people, larger than in 63% of Irish towns
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.
One-person households account for 25%. Just over two in five households are parents with children; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 43%.
Households without a car or van: 42%, a higher share than 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
17% of households have no internet access (typical: 7.6%); 81% have broadband. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
Household income, middle of the range: €37,340 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €37,340 a year here, 38% below Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Limerick the median is €55,950.
5.8% born outside Ireland, fewer than in 99% 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 share of residents with another country’s citizenship is 1.8%, against 15% across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the UK (3.7%) and outside the EU and UK (1.6%).
Only 0.5% of residents speak Irish daily outside education in Ballynanty
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: 675 residents, 25% of those aged 3 and over. Across Ireland’s towns, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education. In Co. Limerick, Farranshone has the highest share (1.9%).
Ballynanty ranks below 96% of Irish towns on residents with no religion: 9%
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: 96% of Ballynanty · Co. Limerick’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (1.3%), Other, including mixed (0.8%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.7%). The benchmark for residents with no religion across Ireland’s towns: 17%. 86% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 99% of Irish towns.
22% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 98% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 5.4%; Ballynanty has 6.5%. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Below 99% of Irish towns: 7.6% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
2% of Ballynanty’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 30% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). On average, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Youngest by rank: 13th of 41 towns of 2,649 to 3,454 people
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Kilbarry (30.4), the youngest, and Ballybrack (45.5), the oldest. Nearest to Ballynanty in age: Ballyjamesduff (35.5), Sixmilebridge (35.6), Virginia (35.8) and Blackpool (36.1).
Nearby, 3 of 6 towns have older populations than Ballynanty
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballynanty | 3,030 | — | 35.7 | 17% | 42% |
| Farranshone | 7,874 | 1.2 km | 43.5 | 23% | 32% |
| Caherdavin | 7,364 | 1.3 km | 35.3 | 16% | 39% |
| Corbally and King's Island | 14,213 | 2.2 km | 39.5 | 16% | 37% |
| Limerick City Centre | 3,434 | 2.3 km | 34.8 | 5.9% | 14% |
| Dock | 6,258 | 2.6 km | 35.4 | 9.4% | 24% |
| Westbury | 3,636 | 3.0 km | 38.5 | 14% | 51% |
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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas
Questions about Ballynanty’s residents
What is the population of Ballynanty?
Ballynanty had 3,030 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballynanty?
The median age is 35.7, younger than 73% of Irish towns. 26% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballynanty?
25% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (675 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballynanty?
96% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 5.8% were born abroad and 1.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballynanty?
86% are Catholic, 9% have no religion and 5.4% another religion; 9.1% didn’t say.
Is Ballynanty good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballynanty are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballynanty?
Median gross household income in Ballynanty was €37,340 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 · Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas. 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).