Photo: Steven Williamson · CC BY-SA 2.0No religion: 5.6% of residents, a lower share than 99% of Irish towns
In Bohola, 19% of residents are 65 or over, beside 14% across Ireland’s towns. This Co. Mayo town is home to 143 residents in 57 households, by the 2022 Census. Households without a car or van account for 8.8%. A third of households are one person living alone, a higher share than in 93% of Irish towns.
A +8% change since 2016: faster than 54% 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.
15% of residents are 15 to 24, more than in 86% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
With a median age of 37.3, Bohola is younger than 55% of Irish towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 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
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Mayo 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
17% of residents 15 and over are students, more than in 95% of Irish towns
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
Nearly two fifths of Bohola’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 11% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Fewer residents who moved in within the year than in 78% of Irish towns: 5.6%.
40% of households are parents with children, fewer than in 64% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. For households of parents with children, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 43%. Average household size: 2.6 people.
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
Broadband reaches 83% of households; 16% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
€51,280 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.
A median gross household income of €51,280 sits 15% below Ireland (€60,120). Countywide, Co. Mayo has a median of €48,670.
A lower share of residents with another country’s citizenship than 83% of Irish towns, at 8.8%
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.
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the UK (9.1%) and outside the EU and UK (7.7%). Lower than in just over half of Irish towns: 22% of residents were born outside Ireland. As a reference point, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
Can speak Irish: 36% of Bohola’s residents
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
Speakers of Irish: 50 residents, 36% of those aged 3 and over. Bohola has more daily speakers of Irish outside education than 73% of Irish towns, at 1.4%.
Bohola ranks above 96% of Irish towns on residents who said they are Catholic: 83%
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: 78% of Bohola · Co. Mayo’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
For Bohola, the census puts residents who describe themselves as White Irish at 78%. On religion, 5.6% answered “no religion”, 83% Catholic and 11% another religion, against 17% and 71% across Ireland’s towns.
2.1% of residents give unpaid care, below 99% 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.
Here a third of residents 15 and over are married, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 34%. Measured more widely, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 82% of Irish towns, at 23%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Just over a fifth of those 15 and over have not yet finished their education. On average, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
The towns around Bohola are all older
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. 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 Bohola’s residents
What is the population of Bohola?
Bohola had 143 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Bohola?
The median age is 37.3. 28% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Bohola?
36% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (50 people), and 1.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Bohola?
78% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 22% were born abroad and 8.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Bohola?
83% are Catholic, 5.6% have no religion and 11% another religion; 0% didn’t say.
Is Bohola good for families?
40% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 28% of residents are under 18. Schools near Bohola are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Bohola?
Median gross household income in Bohola was €51,280 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).