A median age of 45.2: Beaulieu is older than 98% of Irish towns
Households without a car or van make up 4.2%, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. Beaulieu is home to 215 residents in 75 households, by the 2022 Census. The share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish stands at 93%. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
Beaulieu grew +13% from 2016 to 2022, faster than 76% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +10% across Co. Louth’s towns.
More residents aged 15 to 24 than 96% of Irish towns: 19%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The share of residents aged 65 and over tops 84% of Irish towns: 19%. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
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. Louth 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
A student town: 17% of residents 15 and over are students
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
Where 7.8% is typical, managers, directors and senior officials take in 14% of workers. Set beside that, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. Across Beaulieu, 2.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
A larger share of households of parents with children than 93% of Irish towns: 56%
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Louth’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Here 20% of households are one person living alone, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 24%. Households of parents with children make up 43% across Ireland’s towns. Each household has 2.9 people on average.
A smaller share of households in flats than 98% of Irish towns: 1.3%
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
Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. Against that, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. 86% of households are on broadband; 13% have no internet connection (typical: 7.6%).
Half of households earn more than €65,020 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 €65,020 a year here, 8% above Ireland (€60,120). That compares with €54,600 across Co. Louth.
Below 98% of Irish towns: 9.8% of 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.
Against a figure of 15% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship in Beaulieu comes in at 5.7%. The largest groups were born elsewhere in the EU (4.2%) and in the UK (2.8%). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents born outside Ireland is 22%.
An Irish-speaking town: 3% speak it daily outside education
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 96 people here, 48% 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.
More residents who said they are Catholic than 99% of Irish towns: 87%
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: 93% of Beaulieu · Co. Louth’s towns 86% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
In Beaulieu, 11% of residents said they have no religion, beside 17% across Ireland’s towns. On average, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of married residents 15 and over than 99% of Irish towns: 46%
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.
On the census count, 5.6% of residents give unpaid care. Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
Degree or higher: 36% of adults
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Among residents 15 and over, 22% are still studying. Of Beaulieu’s adults, 9.3% went on to postgraduate study and 7.1% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns).
No nearby town is as old as Beaulieu
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaulieu | 215 | — | 45.2 | 19% | 56% |
| Termonfeckin | 1,983 | 3.7 km | 36 | 13% | 57% |
| Drogheda | 44,135 | 3.8 km | 37.8 | 13% | 47% |
| Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney | 15,642 | 4.9 km | 36.8 | 10% | 53% |
| Clogherhead | 2,275 | 7.3 km | 36.6 | 8.7% | 56% |
| Tullyallen | 1,697 | 7.3 km | 33.2 | 6.1% | 67% |
| Duleek | 4,899 | 11.7 km | 35.2 | 8.9% | 56% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Louth’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Louth 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 Beaulieu’s residents
What is the population of Beaulieu?
Beaulieu had 215 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 13% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Beaulieu?
The median age is 45.2. 23% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Beaulieu?
48% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (96 people), and 3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Beaulieu?
93% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 9.8% were born abroad and 5.7% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Beaulieu?
87% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 2.4% another religion; 3.7% didn’t say.
Is Beaulieu good for families?
56% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Beaulieu are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Beaulieu?
Median gross household income in Beaulieu was €65,020 in 2022, against €54,600 across Co. Louth 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).