Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.06.7% of residents said they have no religion, below 99% of Irish towns
Nearly a third of households are one person living alone, against 24% across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 88% of Irish towns. The 2022 Census counted 641 residents in 230 households. Locally, 2.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Faster growth than 52% of Irish towns: Bruree changed by +8% 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.
Half of Bruree is over 39.6, older than 75% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 30–34 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 86% of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 82 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.
More residents who moved in within the year than 83% of Irish towns: 12%
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
Compared with a typical 7.8%, process, plant and machine operatives account for just over one in ten workers. Across Ireland’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 7.5%. Here, 9.3% of residents 15 and over are students.
Smaller households than 76% of Irish towns: 2.5 people on average
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.
The share of households of parents with children stands at 43%.
Bruree ranks below 75% of Irish towns on households in flats: 7.8%
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
Connected households: 76% on broadband; 21% offline (typical: 7.6%). For Bruree, the census puts holiday homes at 1.8%. 6.1% of households live in a flat or apartment, less than in 83% of Irish towns, against a typical 12% across Ireland’s towns.
The median household brings in €52,590 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €52,590 a year before tax, the median household income is 13% under that of Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Limerick the median is €55,950.
Only 17% of Bruree’s residents were born outside Ireland
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 (4.7%) and elsewhere in the EU (4.5%). Fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than in 54% of Irish towns: 14%. The share of residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns is 22%.
Fewer daily speakers of Irish outside education than 99% of Irish towns: 0.2%
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
Top of Co. Limerick: Farranshone, at 1.9%. On average, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Residents who said they are Catholic: 86%, a higher share than 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: 81% of Bruree · Co. Limerick’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (9.2%), Asian or Asian Irish (4.9%) and Black or Black Irish (3%). On residents who describe themselves as White Irish, Bruree sits higher than 60% of Irish towns: 81%. Residents who said they are Catholic make up 71% across Ireland’s towns.
Married residents 15 and over make up 31% in Bruree, less than in 73% 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.
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 5.9%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Measured more widely, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Bruree ranks below 87% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 21%
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, one in ten adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Bruree, 13%, and 5.3% hold a postgraduate qualification. The wider picture: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Nearby, 3 of 4 towns have older populations than Bruree
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruree | 641 | — | 39.6 | 20% | 43% |
| Kilmallock | 1,761 | 5.8 km | 42.9 | 23% | 34% |
| Charleville | 3,970 | 8.0 km | 38.2 | 16% | 42% |
| Croom | 1,240 | 11.5 km | 39.8 | 18% | 38% |
| Adare | 1,224 | 18.0 km | 42.9 | 20% | 37% |
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 Bruree’s residents
What is the population of Bruree?
Bruree had 641 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Bruree?
The median age is 39.6. 24% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Bruree?
32% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (186 people), and 0.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Bruree?
81% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 17% were born abroad and 14% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Bruree?
86% are Catholic, 6.7% have no religion and 7.8% another religion; 7.5% didn’t say.
Is Bruree good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 24% of residents are under 18. Schools near Bruree are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Bruree?
Median gross household income in Bruree was €52,590 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).