Photo: Neil Theasby · CC BY-SA 2.0More holiday homes than 94% of Irish towns: 3.6%
Shared households of unrelated adults: 1.7% here and 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. Residents who said they are Catholic: 88% of the total. Nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, a lower share than in 97% of Irish towns. There were 181 households in Ballindine at the 2022 Census, home to 468 residents.
A growing town: +11% since 2016, faster than 71% 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, half of towns changed by more than +8%; across Co. Mayo’s towns, by more than +9%.
Ballindine is older than 64% of Irish towns: a median age of 38.8
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 16%, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. In Westport, the oldest of Co. Mayo’s towns by this measure, it is 20%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Mayo 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
A lower share of students among residents 15 and over than 78% of Irish towns, at 9%
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
Process, plant and machine operatives stand out among workers: 13%, against a typical 7.8%. Measured more widely, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. 8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
One-person households make up 30% in Ballindine, more than in 81% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Mayo’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Households in Ballindine hold 2.6 people on average (Ireland’s towns: 2.7). More households of parents with children than in two thirds of Irish towns: 46%. The comparison figure for one-person households is 24% across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer households in flats than 96% of Irish towns: 2.8%
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
Here just over one in ten households have no car or van, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 17%. For households in flats, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 12%.
€53,590 a year: where the middle household sits
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 €53,590, 11% lower than across Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Mayo the median is €48,670.
Ballindine sits below 94% of Irish towns for residents with another country’s citizenship (7.1%)
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 35%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
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.
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the UK (8.1%) and elsewhere in the EU (3.3%). Across Ireland’s towns, 15% of residents are citizens of another country. On residents born outside Ireland, Ballindine sits lower than 82% of Irish towns: 16%.
Ballindine ranks below 82% of Irish towns on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.7%
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
Irish speakers number 204, or nearly half of residents aged 3 and over. By way of comparison, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of residents with no religion than 99% of Irish towns: 7.4%
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: 86% of Ballindine · Co. Mayo’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 86%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Next after White Irish come Other White (7%), Irish Traveller (5%) and Other, including mixed (1.1%).
8.1% of residents give unpaid care, a share 99% of Irish towns don’t reach
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.
The share of married residents 15 and over tops just over three quarters of Irish towns: 38%. The benchmark for unpaid carers across Ireland’s towns: 5.4%.
Below 55% of Irish towns: 34% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Ballindine’s adults, 13% went on to postgraduate study and 8.7% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Across the comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Ballindine sits below 1 of its 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballindine | 468 | — | 38.8 | 16% | 46% |
| Claremorris | 3,857 | 7.2 km | 37.4 | 13% | 38% |
| Knock | 1,029 | 14.2 km | 49 | 33% | 28% |
| Ballyhaunis | 2,773 | 15.7 km | 34.5 | 12% | 45% |
| Tuam | 9,647 | 18.0 km | 38.1 | 13% | 41% |
| Ballinrobe | 3,148 | 18.8 km | 37.6 | 13% | 43% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Mayo’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Mayo’s towns of 2,500 or more and over 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 Ballindine’s residents
What is the population of Ballindine?
Ballindine had 468 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 11% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballindine?
The median age is 38.8. 25% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballindine?
49% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (204 people), and 0.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballindine?
86% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 7.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballindine?
88% are Catholic, 7.4% have no religion and 4.3% another religion; 5.1% didn’t say.
Is Ballindine good for families?
46% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballindine are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballindine?
Median gross household income in Ballindine was €53,590 in 2022, against €48,670 across Co. Mayo 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).