Aughnacliffe is younger than 97% of Irish towns: a median age of 31.4
4.2% of homes are holiday homes; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 0.2%. Aughnacliffe counted 157 residents and 55 households at the 2022 Census. The census found that 8.8% of residents said they have no religion locally. On one-person households, Aughnacliffe sits higher than 86% of Irish towns: 31%.
+4% since 2016, a pace below 73% 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 +11% across Co. Longford’s towns.
9.6% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 81% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 0–4: 12% of residents, 2 times the share across Ireland’s towns. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 14%. In Lanesborough-Ballyleague, the oldest of Co. Longford’s towns by this measure, it is 19%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 115 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Longford 50.5%, Ireland 51.2%.
9% of residents moved in within a year, more than in 69% 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
14% of Aughnacliffe’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 16% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. On average, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
More households of parents with children than 82% of Irish towns: 51%
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Longford’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
The typical household size is 2.8 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. By contrast, 3.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, a lower share than in 70% of Irish towns. As a yardstick, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
Aughnacliffe ranks below 93% of Irish towns on households without a car or van: 6%
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
Where just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns, Aughnacliffe has 7.3%. The benchmark for households without a car or van across Ireland’s towns: 17%.
Half above, half below €53,660 a year in household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Households here have a median gross income of €53,660, 11% lower than across Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Longford, the middle household has €47,220.
Only 17% of residents were born outside Ireland in Aughnacliffe
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 40%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 40%
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% are citizens of another country (Ireland’s towns 15%). The benchmark for residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns: 22%. Residents born abroad were most often born outside the EU and UK (7.6%), then in the UK (3.8%).
2.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, a share 93% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
Some 39 people here, 28% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Set beside that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of residents who said they are Catholic than 97% of Irish towns, at 84%
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: 81% of Aughnacliffe · Co. Longford’s towns 61% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
81% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (12%), Other, including mixed (6.8%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.7%). The usual figure: 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer married residents 15 and over than 88% of Irish towns: 27%
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: 4.5%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Only 19% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher in Aughnacliffe
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 Aughnacliffe, 13%, and 7.5% hold a postgraduate qualification. Adults with a degree or higher: 36% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
Every neighbour of Aughnacliffe has an older population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Longford’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Longford has fewer than five towns of 2,500 or more, so its figure is the median of its towns of 1,000 or more; the national figure is the median of 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 Aughnacliffe’s residents
What is the population of Aughnacliffe?
Aughnacliffe had 157 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Aughnacliffe?
The median age is 31.4. 34% are under 18 and 9.6% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Aughnacliffe?
28% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (39 people), and 2.1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Aughnacliffe?
81% 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 Aughnacliffe?
84% are Catholic, 8.8% have no religion and 7.5% another religion; 6.4% didn’t say.
Is Aughnacliffe good for families?
51% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 34% of residents are under 18. Schools near Aughnacliffe are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Aughnacliffe?
Median gross household income in Aughnacliffe was €53,660 in 2022, against €47,220 across Co. Longford 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).