Photo: Jo Hopkinson · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Keel-Dooagh is over 58, older than 99% of Irish towns
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of holiday homes is 0.2%; Keel-Dooagh has 49%. Residents who said they are Catholic account for 85%. Compared with other places, shared households of unrelated adults are scarce here: 1.6%, fewer than in 98% of Irish towns. The 2022 Census counted 567 residents in 244 households.
Keel-Dooagh’s population moved −2% on 2016, less than in 98% 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.
The median across Ireland’s towns is +8%, and across Co. Mayo’s towns +9%.
Keel-Dooagh ranks above 99% of Irish towns on residents aged 65 and over: 37%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 12%. To put it in context, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Mayo 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
5.8% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer than in 99% 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
2.6% lived somewhere else a year earlier, fewer than the typical 7.5% across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
In Keel-Dooagh, 36% of households are one person living alone, more than in 97% 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.
The average household has 2.3 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. The share of households of parents with children stands at 31%. As a reference point, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer flats than 75% of Irish towns: 7.8% of households
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
11% of households have no car or van (Ireland’s towns: 17%). Against that, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
Household income at the median: €33,760 a year
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 €33,760 sits 44% below Ireland (€60,120). That compares with €48,670 across Co. Mayo.
Keel-Dooagh ranks below 97% of Irish towns on residents with another country’s citizenship: 6.1%
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.
Another language is spoken at home by 3%, most often French (1.4%); 0.7% speak English not well or not at all. The wider picture: 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland; in Keel-Dooagh, 24%.
Keel-Dooagh ranks above 98% of Irish towns on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 3.1%
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 251 people here, 45% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Across Ireland’s towns, daily speakers of Irish outside education come to 1.1%.
A higher White Irish share than 98% of Irish towns: 93% of residents
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 Keel-Dooagh · Co. Mayo’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 17% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with no religion in Keel-Dooagh comes in at 12%. Measured more widely, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns.
12% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 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.
Married residents 15 and over: 47% here and 34% across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
29% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 68% of Irish towns
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 7.7% of adults here, while 20% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
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 Keel-Dooagh’s residents
What is the population of Keel-Dooagh?
Keel-Dooagh had 567 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 2% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Keel-Dooagh?
The median age is 58. 13% are under 18 and 37% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Keel-Dooagh?
45% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (251 people), and 3.1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Keel-Dooagh?
93% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 24% were born abroad and 6.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Keel-Dooagh?
85% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 3.4% another religion; 1.6% didn’t say.
Is Keel-Dooagh good for families?
31% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 13% of residents are under 18. Schools near Keel-Dooagh are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Keel-Dooagh?
Median gross household income in Keel-Dooagh was €33,760 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).