Photo: Visualising Heritage · CC BY-SA 2.0Kilmallock is older than 93% of Irish towns: a median age of 42.9
Against a figure of 17% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with no religion in Kilmallock comes in at 7.9%. In Kilmallock, 36% of households are one person living alone. Just over a third of households are parents with children, fewer than in 80% of Irish towns. The 2022 Census counted 1,761 residents in 729 households.
What stands out about the people of Kilmallock
Older than most towns
Half of Kilmallock’s residents are under 42.9 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 23% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Fewer people than before
Kilmallock went from about 1,770 people in 2016 to 1,761 in 2022, ±0%: slower growth than in 93% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
From 2016 to 2022, 93% of Irish towns grew faster than Kilmallock: ±0%
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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +9% across Co. Limerick’s towns.
In Kilmallock, 23% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 95% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 10–14: 7.7% of residents. Lower than in 97% of Irish towns: 9.4% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
Students among residents 15 and over: 7.7%, a lower share than 97% of Irish towns
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
Skilled trades stand out among workers: 16%, against a typical 11%. Elsewhere, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. For Kilmallock, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 4.8%.
2.4 people per household, fewer than in 86% 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.
For Kilmallock, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 4.5%.
Households in flats: 7.8%, a lower share than 75% 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
Nothing unusual on holiday homes: 0.7%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Measured more widely, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. In Kilmallock, a fifth of households have no car or van.
The median household brings in €39,530 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of households are below €39,530 a year before tax: 34% under the Ireland median (€60,120). That compares with €55,950 across Co. Limerick.
A lower share of residents born outside Ireland than 88% of Irish towns, at 14%
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.
11% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (3.7%); 1.8% speak English not well or not at all. Fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than in 79% of Irish towns: 9.5%. On average, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Kilmallock sits below 90% of Irish towns for daily speakers of Irish outside education (0.6%)
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
The highest share in Co. Limerick belongs to Farranshone (1.9%). Across Ireland’s towns, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education. 517 residents, just over a third of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish.
Kilmallock: 86% of residents said they are Catholic, above 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: 82% of Kilmallock · Co. Limerick’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Just over four in five residents describe themselves as White Irish, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (8.3%), Irish Traveller (4.8%) and Asian or Asian Irish (3.3%). Against that, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Half of adults have never married
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.
Kilmallock has more unpaid carers than 59% of Irish towns, at 5.6%. In Kilmallock, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
Kilmallock ranks below 91% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 19%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, 4.5% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 15% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, adults with a degree or higher come to 36%.
The towns around Kilmallock are all younger
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilmallock | 1,761 | — | 42.9 | 23% | 34% |
| Charleville | 3,970 | 9.0 km | 38.2 | 16% | 42% |
| Croom | 1,240 | 16.2 km | 39.8 | 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 Kilmallock’s residents
What is the population of Kilmallock?
Kilmallock had 1,761 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Kilmallock?
The median age is 42.9. 22% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Kilmallock?
34% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (517 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Kilmallock?
82% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 14% were born abroad and 9.5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Kilmallock?
86% are Catholic, 7.9% have no religion and 6.5% another religion; 11% didn’t say.
Is Kilmallock good for families?
34% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Kilmallock are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Kilmallock?
Median gross household income in Kilmallock was €39,530 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).