Photo: The Banner · CC BY-SA 3.0Older than 99% of Irish towns: half of Gob an Choire is over 55.8
The share of holiday homes is 38%, against 0.2% across Ireland’s towns. Census figures put one-person households at 37% in Gob an Choire. On residents who said they are Catholic, Gob an Choire sits higher than 93% of Irish towns: 81%. In 2022, the Census found 265 residents in the town, living in 102 households.
A larger share of daily speakers of Irish outside education than 97% of Irish towns: 2.5%
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
Some 137 people here, 56% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Across Ireland’s towns, daily speakers of Irish outside education come to 1.1%.
Gob an Choire changed by −5% from 2016 to 2022, behind 99% 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, the typical town changed +8%; across Co. Mayo’s towns, +9%.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 36% in Gob an Choire, more than in 99% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
85+ is the most common age band: just over one in ten residents, 7.1 times the share across Ireland’s towns. To put it in context, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24: 10% of the total.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Mayo 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
In Gob an Choire, 7.6% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer than in 97% 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
Residents who moved in within the year make up 11%, against 7.5% across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of households of parents with children than 88% of Irish towns: 27%
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 make up 3.9%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Each household has 2.3 people on average. Set beside that, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of households in flats than 96% of Irish towns, at 2.9%
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
Home broadband covers three quarters of households, while 14% go without the internet (typical: 7.6%). To put it in context, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. About one household in 9 lives without a car or van.
Household income at the median: €32,650 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 €32,650, 46% lower than across Ireland (€60,120). Co. Mayo comes in at €48,670 at the median.
Fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than 69% of Irish towns: 11%
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 most common home language after English is Polish (0.8%); in all 8.8% speak another language, and 1.5% speak English not well or not at all. For residents with another country’s citizenship, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 15%. Here 23% of residents were born outside Ireland, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 22%.
8.9% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 96% 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: 85% of Gob an Choire · Co. Mayo’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish; in Gob an Choire, 85%. The usual figure: 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Besides White Irish, the main groups are Other White (9%), Asian or Asian Irish (5.3%) and Other, including mixed (0.4%).
Above 99% of Irish towns: 7.9% of residents give unpaid care
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.
With married residents 15 and over at 37%, Gob an Choire is ahead of 70% of Irish towns on that count. As a yardstick, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 84% of Irish towns, at 22%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Gob an Choire’s adults, 8.1% went on to postgraduate study and 25% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Adults with a degree or higher: 36% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
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).
- Speaking Irish. CSO asks everyone aged 3 and over whether they can speak Irish and how often; “daily outside education” leaves out speaking it only at school.
- 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 Gob an Choire’s residents
What is the population of Gob an Choire?
Gob an Choire had 265 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 5% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Gob an Choire?
The median age is 55.8. 15% are under 18 and 36% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Gob an Choire?
56% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (137 people), and 2.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns. Gob an Choire is in the Gaeltacht, the districts where Irish is the community language.
How diverse is Gob an Choire?
85% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 23% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Gob an Choire?
81% are Catholic, 8.9% have no religion and 9.8% another religion; 7.2% didn’t say.
Is Gob an Choire good for families?
27% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 15% of residents are under 18. Schools near Gob an Choire are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Gob an Choire?
Median gross household income in Gob an Choire was €32,650 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).