Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 99% of Irish towns: half of Mountcollins is over 50.4
Where nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns, Mountcollins has 38%. At the 2022 Census Mountcollins was home to 234 people in 113 households. In Mountcollins, 88% of residents said they are Catholic. 6.4% of homes are holiday homes, a higher share than in 96% of Irish towns.
Mountcollins changed by +1% from 2016 to 2022, behind 86% 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.
Set beside +8% across Ireland’s towns and +9% across Co. Limerick’s towns.
Above 99% of Irish towns: 30% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Limerick 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
Students among residents 15 and over make up 5.6% in Mountcollins, less than in 99% 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
By occupation, skilled trades are over-represented: 22%, against a typical 11%. For comparison, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 2.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
2.1 people per household, fewer than in 98% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Here, 33% of households are parents with children.
8.3% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 82% 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
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Against that, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. The share of households with broadband is 77%; 13% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%).
Median household income: €34,520 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €34,520 a year before tax, the median household income is 43% under that of Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Limerick overall, the median comes to €55,950.
Mountcollins ranks below 98% of Irish towns on residents with another country’s citizenship: 5.2%
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.
Polish leads the languages spoken at home (2.1%), among the 3.1% who speak another language there; 0.9% speak English not well or not at all. The wider picture: 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Lower than in 87% of Irish towns: 14% of residents were born outside Ireland.
In Mountcollins, 0.4% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 99% of Irish towns
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
Within Co. Limerick, Farranshone has the largest share, 1.9%. As a reference point, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
In Mountcollins, 7.4% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 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: 94% of Mountcollins · Co. Limerick’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
In Mountcollins, 94% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, beside 78% across Ireland’s towns. Residents with no religion make up 17% across Ireland’s towns. After White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (4.8%), Black or Black Irish (0.4%) and Other, including mixed (0.4%).
In Mountcollins, 40% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 90% 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.
7.7% of residents give unpaid care (Ireland’s towns: 5.4%). To put it in context, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
In Mountcollins, 18% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 92% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Primary level or earlier: 16%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Postgraduate: 4.6% of adults.
The towns around Mountcollins 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountcollins | 234 | — | 50.4 | 30% | 33% |
| Abbeyfeale | 2,206 | 8.8 km | 40.8 | 18% | 39% |
| Newcastle West | 7,209 | 18.4 km | 37.4 | 15% | 43% |
| Castleisland | 2,536 | 19.0 km | 42.4 | 20% | 42% |
| Newmarket | 1,052 | 19.1 km | 48.6 | 28% | 33% |
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 Mountcollins’s residents
What is the population of Mountcollins?
Mountcollins had 234 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 1% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Mountcollins?
The median age is 50.4. 19% are under 18 and 30% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Mountcollins?
48% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (107 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Mountcollins?
94% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 14% were born abroad and 5.2% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Mountcollins?
88% are Catholic, 7.4% have no religion and 4.3% another religion; 1.3% didn’t say.
Is Mountcollins good for families?
33% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 19% of residents are under 18. Schools near Mountcollins are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Mountcollins?
Median gross household income in Mountcollins was €34,520 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).