Fewer young people than 99% of Irish towns: 7.4% are 15 to 24
Compared with 78% across Ireland’s towns, 94% of residents describe themselves as White Irish here. The share of one-person households stands at 38%. Few places have as many holiday homes: 2.9% here, more than in 93% of Irish towns. 204 residents in 87 households: that is Bonniconlon at the 2022 Census.
A growing town: +15% since 2016, faster than 81% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +9% across Co. Mayo’s towns.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 19% in Bonniconlon, more than in 86% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 0–4: 11% of residents, 2 times the share across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 14% of residents are 65 or over 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
51% women, 49% men
About 96 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 99% of Irish towns, at 6.8%
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
32% of Bonniconlon’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 21% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. For Bonniconlon, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 5.6%.
Smaller households than 85% of Irish towns: 2.4 people on average
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. Locally, 44% of households are parents with children.
Only 8.3% of households in Bonniconlon have no car or van
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
Connected households: 83% on broadband; 16% offline (typical: 7.6%). Households without a car or van: 17% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
€48,480 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.
Before tax, the middle household here has €48,480 a year, 19% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Mayo, the figure is €48,670.
Bonniconlon sits below 99% of Irish towns for residents with another country’s citizenship (1.5%)
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.
4.3% speak a language other than English at home, French most of all (1%); 0.5% speak English not well or not at all. Lower than in 92% of Irish towns: 13% of residents were born outside Ireland. To put it in context, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.6%, a higher share than 81% 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
Speakers of Irish: 95 residents, 52% of those aged 3 and over. As a yardstick, 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: 3%
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: 94% of Bonniconlon · Co. Mayo’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (5%), Black or Black Irish (0.5%) and Other, including mixed (0.5%). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 17%. Compared with other places, residents who said they are Catholic are common here: 94%, more than in 99% of Irish towns.
Married residents 15 and over: 29%, a lower share than 82% 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.
On unpaid carers, 5.9% here is much the same as across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents 15 and over are married.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 72% of Irish towns: 27%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Bonniconlon’s adults, 6.4% went on to postgraduate study and 10% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). On average, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
No nearby town is as young as Bonniconlon
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonniconlon | 204 | — | 36.8 | 19% | 44% |
| Ballina | 10,556 | 8.2 km | 39.5 | 17% | 42% |
| Enniscrone | 1,291 | 12.2 km | 46.3 | 27% | 32% |
| Foxford | 1,452 | 14.9 km | 45.4 | 25% | 33% |
| Crossmolina | 1,134 | 18.9 km | 41.8 | 19% | 38% |
| Swinford | 1,459 | 19.2 km | 44.1 | 24% | 34% |
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 Bonniconlon’s residents
What is the population of Bonniconlon?
Bonniconlon had 204 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 15% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Bonniconlon?
The median age is 36.8. 32% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Bonniconlon?
52% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (95 people), and 1.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Bonniconlon?
94% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 13% were born abroad and 1.5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Bonniconlon?
94% are Catholic, 3% have no religion and 3.5% another religion; 1.5% didn’t say.
Is Bonniconlon good for families?
44% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 32% of residents are under 18. Schools near Bonniconlon are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Bonniconlon?
Median gross household income in Bonniconlon was €48,480 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).