Photo: Mike Kinsella · CC BY-SA 4.0A lower share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 98% of Irish towns, at 8.6%
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 93%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. Crossmolina counted 1,134 residents and 491 households at the 2022 Census. Holiday homes: 3% of the total. At 1.8%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is lower than in 97% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Crossmolina
Older than most towns
Half of Crossmolina’s residents are under 41.8 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 19% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Many carers
About 80 residents (7%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 96% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
From 2016 to 2022, 70% of Irish towns grew faster than Crossmolina: +5%
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 Co. Mayo’s towns the median is +9%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
Crossmolina is older than 88% of Irish towns: a median age of 41.8
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
30–34 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents. On residents aged 65 and over, Crossmolina sits higher than 87% of Irish towns: 19%. 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%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Crossmolina ranks below 99% of Irish towns on students among residents 15 and over: 7%
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
Work here tilts toward skilled trades, at 18% against a typical 11%. 5.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, a lower share than in 74% of Irish towns. The usual figure: 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of one-person households than 94% of Irish towns, at 34%
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.
Set against 43% across Ireland’s towns, 38% of households are parents with children in Crossmolina. Across Ireland’s towns, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone. Households average 2.3 people.
Only 3.7% of households live in a flat or apartment in Crossmolina
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
By its share of households without a car or van (12%), Crossmolina is below 69% of Irish towns. The share of households with broadband is 82%; 15% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%).
Half of households earn more than €46,440 a year
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 €46,440, 23% lower than across Ireland (€60,120). Co. Mayo as a whole has a median of €48,670.
A lower share of residents with another country’s citizenship than 98% of Irish towns, at 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.
At home, 5.9% use another language, chiefly Polish (0.5%), and 0.1% speak English not well or not at all. On average, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Few places have so few residents born outside Ireland: 13% here, fewer than in 90% of Irish towns.
Irish speakers make up 41% of Crossmolina
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
Castlebar leads Co. Mayo with 1.2%. 0.9% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, a lower share than in 65% of Irish towns.
Residents with no religion: 6.9%, a lower 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: 93% of Crossmolina · Co. Mayo’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (4.5%), Asian or Asian Irish (1.2%) and Other, including mixed (1%). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 17%. At 88%, the share of residents who said they are Catholic is higher than in 99% of Irish towns.
Unpaid carers: 7%, a higher share than 96% 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.
By its share of married residents 15 and over (36%), Crossmolina is above 64% of Irish towns. Set beside that, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
Crossmolina sits below 68% of Irish towns for adults with a degree or higher (29%)
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate qualifications are held by 8.1% of adults here, while 12% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). As a yardstick, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Of the 3 towns nearest Crossmolina, 2 are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossmolina | 1,134 | — | 41.8 | 19% | 38% |
| Ballina | 10,556 | 10.8 km | 39.5 | 17% | 42% |
| Foxford | 1,452 | 18.9 km | 45.4 | 25% | 33% |
| Enniscrone | 1,291 | 19.2 km | 46.3 | 27% | 32% |
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 Crossmolina’s residents
What is the population of Crossmolina?
Crossmolina had 1,134 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Crossmolina?
The median age is 41.8. 23% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Crossmolina?
41% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (433 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Crossmolina?
93% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 13% were born abroad and 5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Crossmolina?
88% are Catholic, 6.9% have no religion and 5.4% another religion; 2.1% didn’t say.
Is Crossmolina good for families?
38% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Crossmolina are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Crossmolina?
Median gross household income in Crossmolina was €46,440 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).