Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 98% of Irish towns: 91%
2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home (Ireland’s towns: 4.7%). At the 2022 Census Knockbridge was home to 759 people in 249 households. Households without a car or van account for 5.9%. The town has more households of parents with children than 81% of Irish towns, at 51%.
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 69% of Irish towns: 11%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 40–44 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents. With a median age of 36.8, Knockbridge is younger than just over three fifths of Irish towns. As a reference point, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Castlebellingham-Kilsaran, the oldest of Co. Louth’s towns by this measure, it is 19%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Louth 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 98% of Irish towns: 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
Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Knockbridge, 43% and 10%. As a yardstick, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Larger households than 89% of Irish towns: 3 people 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone; in Knockbridge, 19%.
100% of homes are houses
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. Broadband: 95% of households. No internet at all: 5.1% (typical: 7.6%).
Household income at the median: €68,260 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 €68,260 a year here, 14% above Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Louth as a whole, the figure is €54,600.
Knockbridge sits below 98% of Irish towns for residents with another country’s citizenship (5.3%)
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.
The most common home language after English is Spanish (1.3%); in all 8.3% speak another language, and 0.8% speak English not well or not at all. Knockbridge has fewer residents born outside Ireland than just over two thirds of Irish towns, at 18%. The usual figure: 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of daily speakers of Irish outside education than 99% of Irish towns: 0.3%
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
276 residents, nearly two fifths of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1%.
Residents who said they are Catholic: 87%, a higher share than 99% 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: 91% of Knockbridge · Co. Louth’s towns 86% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White Irish, the main groups are Other White (6.4%), Asian or Asian Irish (0.8%) and Other, including mixed (0.8%). The usual figure: 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. On residents with no religion, Knockbridge sits lower than 95% of Irish towns: 9.3%.
In Knockbridge, 41% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 93% 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.
Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 4.7%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
32% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 57% 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, 10% 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. Adults with a degree or higher: 36% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
Knockbridge sits below 3 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knockbridge | 759 | — | 36.8 | 11% | 51% |
| Dundalk | 43,112 | 6.6 km | 36.5 | 14% | 45% |
| Dromiskin | 1,292 | 8.1 km | 36.1 | 10% | 59% |
| Castlebellingham-Kilsaran | 1,232 | 11.0 km | 41.4 | 19% | 41% |
| Ardee | 5,478 | 13.9 km | 37.7 | 14% | 46% |
| Carrickmacross | 5,745 | 14.7 km | 36.9 | 13% | 42% |
| Dunleer | 2,143 | 17.5 km | 36.3 | 11% | 53% |
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 Knockbridge’s residents
What is the population of Knockbridge?
Knockbridge had 759 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area.
What is the average age in Knockbridge?
The median age is 36.8. 29% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Knockbridge?
39% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (276 people), and 0.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Knockbridge?
91% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 5.3% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Knockbridge?
87% are Catholic, 9.3% have no religion and 3.9% another religion; 2.8% didn’t say.
Is Knockbridge good for families?
51% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 29% of residents are under 18. Schools near Knockbridge are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Knockbridge?
Median gross household income in Knockbridge was €68,260 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).