Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0In Prospect and Newtown Pery, 33% of households are one person living alone, more than in 93% of Irish towns
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 89%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. Prospect and Newtown Pery is home to 4,122 residents in 1,800 households, by the 2022 Census. The census found that just over one in ten households are unrelated adults sharing a home in the neighbourhood. With a median age of 40.8, Prospect and Newtown Pery is older than 83% of Irish towns.
Prospect and Newtown Pery’s population changed by +9% since 2016, more than in 56% 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.
More residents aged 65 and over than 80% of Irish towns: 18%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 15–19: 7.1% of residents. Across the comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Farranshone, the oldest of Co. Limerick’s towns by this measure, it is 23%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Prospect and Newtown Pery, 40.8. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Limerick 51.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
Below 88% of Irish towns: 4.7% 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
Against a figure of 10% across Ireland’s towns, the share of students among residents 15 and over in Prospect and Newtown Pery comes in at 12%. Set beside that, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Prospect and Newtown Pery ranks below 85% of Irish towns on households of parents with children: 31%
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 average household has 2.3 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
44% of households have no car or van, more than in 93% 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
Broadband reaches nearly four in five households; 19% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). One household in 2 has no car or van, the 2nd highest share in Co. Limerick. For Prospect and Newtown Pery, the census puts households in flats at 14%.
Household income, middle of the range: €34,880 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €34,880 a year before tax, the median household income is 42% under that of Ireland (€60,120). Co. Limerick’s median household income is €55,950.
11% born outside Ireland, fewer than in 96% of Irish towns
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.
Residents born abroad were most often born outside the EU and UK (4.1%), then in the UK (3.1%). Few places have so few residents with another country’s citizenship: 7.4% here, fewer than in 91% of Irish towns. On average, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
29% of Prospect and Newtown Pery 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
No town in Co. Limerick beats Farranshone (1.9%). Lower than in nearly two thirds of Irish towns: 0.9% of residents speak Irish daily outside education.
More residents who said they are Catholic than 90% of Irish towns: 80%
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: 89% of Prospect and Newtown Pery · Co. Limerick’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (5.7%), Other, including mixed (1.9%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.6%). Residents with no religion are rarer here than in just over four fifths of Irish towns. To put it in context, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Only 26% of residents 15 and over are married in Prospect and Newtown Pery
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.
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 5.1%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Only 13% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher in Prospect and Newtown Pery
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
3.4% of Prospect and Newtown Pery’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 24% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Across Ireland’s towns, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher.
The 7th oldest of 41 towns of 3,539 to 4,794 people
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 27.5 in Dangan to 46.5 in Montenotte. Nearest to Prospect and Newtown Pery in age: Birr (39.4), Courtown (39.9), Tivoli (41.1) and Mitchelstown (41.7).
1 of the 6 nearest towns are older than Prospect and Newtown Pery
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prospect and Newtown Pery | 4,122 | — | 40.8 | 18% | 31% |
| Galvone | 5,412 | 0.8 km | 36.2 | 13% | 33% |
| Dock | 6,258 | 0.8 km | 35.4 | 9.4% | 24% |
| Limerick City Centre | 3,434 | 1.0 km | 34.8 | 5.9% | 14% |
| Rathbane | 4,111 | 1.0 km | 37.9 | 15% | 47% |
| Ballinacurra | 3,719 | 1.4 km | 38.6 | 18% | 33% |
| Garryowen | 5,428 | 1.7 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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas
Questions about Prospect and Newtown Pery’s residents
What is the population of Prospect and Newtown Pery?
Prospect and Newtown Pery had 4,122 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Prospect and Newtown Pery?
The median age is 40.8, older than 83% of Irish towns. 20% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Prospect and Newtown Pery?
29% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (960 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Prospect and Newtown Pery?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 11% were born abroad and 7.4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Prospect and Newtown Pery?
80% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 7.4% another religion; 17% didn’t say.
Is Prospect and Newtown Pery good for families?
31% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Prospect and Newtown Pery are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Prospect and Newtown Pery?
Median gross household income in Prospect and Newtown Pery was €34,880 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).