Photo: Donal Cassidy · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer shared households of unrelated adults than 99% of Irish towns: 1%
52% of households are parents with children; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 43%. Census figures put residents who said they are Catholic at 81% in Collon. At 8.1%, the share of households in flats is lower than in 74% of Irish towns. The 2022 Census put the town’s population at 864, in 309 households.
Collon changed by −1% from 2016 to 2022, behind 96% 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 Ireland’s towns the median change is +8%; across Co. Louth’s towns, +10%.
In Collon, 15% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 84% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 10–14: just over one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Fewer residents aged 65 and over than in 69% of Irish towns: 11%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Louth 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 93% of Irish towns: 4.3%
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
In Collon, 12% of residents 15 and over are students, beside 10% across Ireland’s towns. On average, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Bigger households than 73% of Irish towns: 2.9 people each on average
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 26% of households are one person living alone, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 24%.
8.8% of households have no car or van, below 80% 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
Home broadband covers 91% of households, while 7% go without the internet (typical: 7.6%). About one household in 11 lives without a car or van. Few places have as many holiday homes: 0.3% here, more than in 58% of Irish towns.
Household income at the median: €62,280 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Collon’s households have a gross income above €62,280 a year and half below, close to the median for Ireland (€60,120). Co. Louth’s median household income is €54,600.
Collon sits below 87% of Irish towns for residents born outside Ireland (15%)
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 with another country’s citizenship make up 8.1%, against 15% across Ireland’s towns. Polish leads the languages spoken at home (2.7%), among the 12% who speak another language there; 1.5% speak English not well or not at all. To put it in context, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
In Collon, 0.6% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 90% 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
Tullyallen leads Co. Louth with 1.2%. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1%.
In Collon, 87% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 85% 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: 87% of Collon · Co. Louth’s towns 86% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 12% here and 17% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (6.8%), Black or Black Irish (3.1%) and Other, including mixed (1.9%).
Collon sits below 73% of Irish towns for married residents 15 and over (31%)
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: 4.6%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. On average, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 74% of Irish towns, at 27%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A postgraduate qualification is the highest level for 6.9% of adults; primary level or less for 12% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). For comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 3 are older than Collon
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. 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 Collon’s residents
What is the population of Collon?
Collon had 864 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 1% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Collon?
The median age is 36.4. 31% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Collon?
38% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (306 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Collon?
87% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 8.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Collon?
81% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 6.3% another religion; 3% didn’t say.
Is Collon good for families?
52% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 31% of residents are under 18. Schools near Collon are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Collon?
Median gross household income in Collon was €62,280 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).