Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0A larger share of holiday homes than 95% of Irish towns: 5.2%
The share of residents with no religion is 8.7%, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. Irishtown has fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 89% of Irish towns, at 10%. The 2022 Census counted 182 residents in 72 households. One-person households: 28% of the total.
Since 2016, Irishtown has grown +8%, faster than 51% 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.
Older than 71% of Irish towns: half of Irishtown is over 39.4
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
35–39 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents. On residents aged 65 and over, Irishtown sits lower than 58% of Irish towns: 13%. 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%.
Irishtown sits below 99% of Irish towns for residents who moved in within the year (2.2%)
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
The figure for students among residents 15 and over is 12% in Irishtown and 10% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 7.5%.
Households here average 2.6 people, below 67% 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.
Set against 43% across Ireland’s towns, 44% of households are parents with children in Irishtown. In Irishtown, 4.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
A smaller share of households in flats than 98% of Irish towns: 1.4%
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
Just over one in ten households have no car or van, against 17% across Ireland’s towns.
Before tax, the median household income is €49,900 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€49,900 a year before tax puts the median household 17% below Ireland (€60,120). Co. Mayo’s median household income is €48,670.
Fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than 95% of Irish towns: 7%
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, 6.2% use another language, chiefly Polish (1.6%), and 0.5% speak English not well or not at all. Irishtown has fewer residents born outside Ireland than 77% of Irish towns, at 17%. The comparison figure for residents with another country’s citizenship is 15% across Ireland’s towns.
Of Irishtown’s residents, 46% can speak Irish
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
Little separates the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education here, 1.2%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Speakers of Irish: 76 residents, 46% of those aged 3 and over.
In Irishtown, 88% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 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: 88% of Irishtown · Co. Mayo’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (9.9%), Other, including mixed (1.8%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.6%). The usual figure: 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Against a figure of 78% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish in Irishtown comes in at 88%.
Irishtown: 37% of residents 15 and over are married, above 70% 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.
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 4.9%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. For comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Irishtown sits below 85% of Irish towns for adults with a degree or higher (22%)
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 4.5% of adults here, while 13% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). As a reference point, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Irishtown sits below 1 of its 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irishtown | 182 | — | 39.4 | 13% | 44% |
| Claremorris | 3,857 | 10.2 km | 37.4 | 13% | 38% |
| Ballyhaunis | 2,773 | 13.5 km | 34.5 | 12% | 45% |
| Knock | 1,029 | 14.9 km | 49 | 33% | 28% |
| Tuam | 9,647 | 16.4 km | 38.1 | 13% | 41% |
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 Irishtown’s residents
What is the population of Irishtown?
Irishtown had 182 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Irishtown?
The median age is 39.4. 26% are under 18 and 13% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Irishtown?
46% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (76 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Irishtown?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 17% were born abroad and 7% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Irishtown?
88% are Catholic, 8.7% have no religion and 2.9% another religion; 5.5% didn’t say.
Is Irishtown good for families?
44% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Irishtown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Irishtown?
Median gross household income in Irishtown was €49,900 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).