Photo: Marathon · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 43.5: Farranshone is older than 95% of Irish towns
Households average 2.4 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. 29% of households are one person living alone, a higher share than in 76% of Irish towns. Farranshone had 7,874 residents in 3,122 households at the 2022 Census. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 86% of the total.
What stands out about the people of Farranshone
Older than most towns
Half of Farranshone’s residents are under 43.5 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 23% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Many carers
About 570 residents (7.2%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 97% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A change of +6% since 2016 leaves Farranshone behind 64% 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%.
More residents aged 65 and over than 95% of Irish towns: 23%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 11%, below 66% of Irish towns. By way of comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. No age band is larger than 35–39: 6.9% of residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Farranshone, 43.5. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
Above 66% of Irish towns: 8.6% 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
Students among residents 15 and over: 11%, above 64% of Irish towns. The wider picture: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
32% of households are parents with children, below 84% 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.
7.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. The benchmark for households of parents with children across Ireland’s towns: 43%.
In Farranshone, 13% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 68% 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
0.5% of homes are holiday homes, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Measured more widely, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Higher than in 56% of Irish towns: 13% of households live in a flat or apartment.
Household income, middle of the range: €63,050 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Farranshone’s households have a gross income above €63,050 a year and half below, close to the median for Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Limerick, the middle household has €55,950.
Farranshone sits below 75% of Irish towns for residents born outside Ireland (17%)
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 outside the EU and UK (7.3%) and in the UK (4%). Compared with other places, residents with another country’s citizenship are scarce here: 12%, fewer than in 66% of Irish towns. Set beside that, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Farranshone sits above 90% of Irish towns for daily speakers of Irish outside education (1.9%)
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
Irish speakers number 3,661, or 53% of residents aged 3 and over. It is the highest share of Co. Limerick’s 15 towns of 2,500+. Set beside that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of residents with no religion than 66% of Irish towns: 20%
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: 86% of Farranshone · Co. Limerick’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (7.4%), Asian or Asian Irish (3.2%) and Other, including mixed (2.2%). Higher than in 60% of Irish towns: 73% of residents said they are Catholic. On average, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
Farranshone ranks above 87% of Irish towns on married residents 15 and over: 40%
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.
About 570 residents (7.2%) give regular unpaid care (Ireland’s towns 5.4%). Against that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of adults with a degree or higher than 77% of Irish towns: 49%
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 Farranshone, 5.2%, and 20% hold a postgraduate qualification. Against that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
4th highest median age among 41 towns of 6,710 to 9,031
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Temple Bar is the youngest (31.4); Dalkey the oldest (50.3). Nearest to Farranshone in age: Raheny (42.8), Turner's Cross (43), Perrystown (45.1) and Howth (47.7).
Farranshone is older than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farranshone | 7,874 | — | 43.5 | 23% | 32% |
| Ballynanty | 3,030 | 1.2 km | 35.7 | 17% | 42% |
| Limerick City Centre | 3,434 | 1.3 km | 34.8 | 5.9% | 14% |
| Dock | 6,258 | 1.4 km | 35.4 | 9.4% | 24% |
| Caherdavin | 7,364 | 1.5 km | 35.3 | 16% | 39% |
| Corbally and King's Island | 14,213 | 1.9 km | 39.5 | 16% | 37% |
| Prospect and Newtown Pery | 4,122 | 2.1 km | 40.8 | 18% | 31% |
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 Farranshone’s residents
What is the population of Farranshone?
Farranshone had 7,874 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Farranshone?
The median age is 43.5, older than 95% of Irish towns. 18% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Farranshone?
53% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (3,661 people), and 1.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Farranshone?
86% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 17% were born abroad and 12% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Farranshone?
73% are Catholic, 20% have no religion and 7.7% another religion; 8% didn’t say.
Is Farranshone good for families?
32% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 18% of residents are under 18. Schools near Farranshone are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Farranshone?
Median gross household income in Farranshone was €63,050 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).