Photo: Anbkm · CC BY-SA 3.0A family town: 57% of households are parents with children
1% of households live in a flat or apartment; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 12%. At the 2022 Census, 1,432 people lived in Moroe, in 494 households. Residents aged 65 and over: 8% of the total. More residents who describe themselves as White Irish than in 74% of Irish towns: 84%.
What stands out about the people of Moroe
A town of families
42% of households are couples with children and 15% lone parents with children, more than in 95% of Irish towns; 30% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Faster growth than 59% of Irish towns: Moroe changed by +9% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns the median change is +8%; across Co. Limerick’s towns, +9%.
Younger than 78% of Irish towns: half of Moroe is under 35.2
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
10% of residents are aged 15 to 24; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 12%. 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
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Limerick 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
12% of residents 15 and over are students, a share 77% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
Work here tilts toward associate professional and technical, at 17% against a typical 13%. On the census count, 6.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Typically, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Larger households than 79% of Irish towns: 2.9 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 3.2%, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. One-person households are rarer here than in 69% of Irish towns.
A smaller share of households without a car or van than 94% of Irish towns: 5.4%
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
There is little gap on holiday homes: 0.6%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Median household income here: €68,890 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 €68,890 a year here, 15% above Ireland (€60,120). Co. Limerick as a whole has a median of €55,950.
Only 17% of Moroe’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.
Most residents from abroad were born elsewhere in the EU (5.1%) or outside the EU and UK (4.9%). Few places have so few residents with another country’s citizenship: 11% here, fewer than in 71% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland.
In Moroe, 38% of residents can speak Irish
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
Daily speakers of Irish outside education are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 1.2%. Within Co. Limerick, Farranshone has the largest share, 1.9%.
Residents who said they are Catholic: 74%, a higher share than 66% 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: 84% of Moroe · Co. Limerick’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (11%), Black or Black Irish (1.8%) and Other, including mixed (1.6%). Residents who said they are Catholic make up 71% across Ireland’s towns. 18% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 56% of Irish towns.
Married residents 15 and over: 32%, a lower share than 72% 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.
Unpaid carers: 5.4% of the total. By way of comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
36% of adults have 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
Postgraduate qualifications are held by just over one in ten adults here, while 5.7% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Moroe has more adults with a degree or higher than 50% of Irish towns, at 36%.
4 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Moroe
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moroe | 1,432 | — | 35.2 | 8% | 57% |
| Newport | 2,183 | 6.3 km | 36 | 9.7% | 55% |
| Caherconlish | 1,569 | 8.2 km | 37.7 | 14% | 53% |
| Annacotty | 3,398 | 9.4 km | 35 | 8.7% | 43% |
| Castleconnell | 2,488 | 9.6 km | 38.5 | 14% | 50% |
| Castletroy | 15,093 | 11.1 km | 29 | 9.2% | 32% |
| Garryowen | 5,428 | 13.7 km | 40.9 | 15% | 45% |
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 Moroe’s residents
What is the population of Moroe?
Moroe had 1,432 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Moroe?
The median age is 35.2. 34% are under 18 and 8% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Moroe?
38% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (495 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Moroe?
84% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 17% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Moroe?
74% are Catholic, 18% have no religion and 7.9% another religion; 5.9% didn’t say.
Is Moroe good for families?
57% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 34% of residents are under 18. Schools near Moroe are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Moroe?
Median gross household income in Moroe was €68,890 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).