Photo: Peter Clarke at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0In Clogherhead, 11% of homes are holiday homes, more than in 99% of Irish towns
Residents aged 65 and over: 8.7% here and 14% across Ireland’s towns. Compared with other places, shared households of unrelated adults are scarce here: 1.7%, fewer than in 98% of Irish towns. In 2022, the Census found 2,275 residents in Clogherhead, living in 768 households. Census figures put residents who describe themselves as White Irish at 87% locally.
What stands out about the people of Clogherhead
One home in 9 is a holiday home
About 100 of 900 homes were empty holiday homes on Census night (11%), more than in 99% of Irish towns; 4.1% were vacant. Homes & cars ↓
A town of families
41% of households are couples with children and 15% lone parents with children, more than in 93% of Irish towns; 25% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Since 2016, Clogherhead has changed by +7%, slower than 57% 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.
Across Co. Louth’s towns the median is +10%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
14% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 82% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 10–14: one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. With a median age of 36.6, Clogherhead is younger than 64% of Irish towns.
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. Louth 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Clogherhead ranks below 94% of Irish towns on residents who moved in within the year: 4.1%
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
Skilled trades stand out among workers: 14%, against a typical 11%. Residents who moved in within the year: 7.5% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. Here, 13% of residents 15 and over are students.
Above 93% of Irish towns: 56% of households are parents with children
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.
In Clogherhead, 20% of households are one person living alone, beside 24% across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns. The average household has 3 people.
Fewer flats than 96% of Irish towns: 2.2% of households
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
The share of households with broadband is 89%; 9% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Households without a car or van are rarer here than in 85% of Irish towns. To put it in context, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
Half of households earn more than €61,730 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
A median gross household income of €61,730 sits close to Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Louth overall, the median comes to €54,600.
Only 8.6% of residents are citizens of another country in Clogherhead
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.
At home, 11% use another language, chiefly Polish (2.1%), and 1.6% speak English not well or not at all. Residents with another country’s citizenship make up 15% across Ireland’s towns. Few places have so few residents born outside Ireland: 16% here, fewer than in 79% of Irish towns.
37% of Clogherhead 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
782 residents, 37% of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Few places have so few daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.8% here, fewer than in nearly three quarters of Irish towns.
A larger share of 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: 87% of Clogherhead · Co. Louth’s towns 86% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (9%), Black or Black Irish (2.8%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.8%). 13% of residents said they have no religion, a lower share than in 78% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who said they are Catholic is 71%.
In Clogherhead, 35% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 55% 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.
Across Clogherhead, 5.5% of residents give unpaid care. 56% of the town’s residents 15 and over are single and 35% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher make up 27% in Clogherhead, less than in 73% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, 8.2% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 9.7% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of adults with a degree or higher is 36%.
Clogherhead is younger than 3 of its 6 nearest neighbours
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clogherhead | 2,275 | — | 36.6 | 8.7% | 56% |
| Termonfeckin | 1,983 | 3.6 km | 36 | 13% | 57% |
| Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney | 15,642 | 10.1 km | 36.8 | 10% | 53% |
| Dunleer | 2,143 | 10.8 km | 36.3 | 11% | 53% |
| Drogheda | 44,135 | 11.0 km | 37.8 | 13% | 47% |
| Tullyallen | 1,697 | 12.8 km | 33.2 | 6.1% | 67% |
| Castlebellingham-Kilsaran | 1,232 | 15.1 km | 41.4 | 19% | 41% |
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 Clogherhead’s residents
What is the population of Clogherhead?
Clogherhead had 2,275 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 7% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Clogherhead?
The median age is 36.6. 30% are under 18 and 8.7% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Clogherhead?
37% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (782 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Clogherhead?
87% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 8.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Clogherhead?
80% are Catholic, 13% have no religion and 6.8% another religion; 3.1% didn’t say.
Is Clogherhead good for families?
56% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Clogherhead are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Clogherhead?
Median gross household income in Clogherhead was €61,730 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).