Photo: Robert Ashby · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Louisburgh is over 46, older than 99% of Irish towns
Set against 0.2% across Ireland’s towns, just over a third of homes are holiday homes in Louisburgh. Compared with other places, households of parents with children are scarce here: 35%, fewer than in nearly four fifths of Irish towns. This Co. Mayo town had 367 residents in 167 households at the 2022 Census. For Louisburgh, the census puts one-person households at 40%.
From 2016 to 2022, Louisburgh outgrew 84% of Irish towns: +17%
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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +9% across Co. Mayo’s towns.
More residents aged 65 and over than 95% of Irish towns: 22%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 45–49: 8.7% of residents. On average, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 are rarer here than in 89% of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
56% women, 44% men
About 80 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.
7.4% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer than in 98% 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
38% of Louisburgh’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 12% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 6.8% of the total.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 96% 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.
4.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, a lower share than in 58% of Irish towns.
Below 75% of Irish towns: 7.8% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
14% of households have no car or van, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. The share of households in flats across Ireland’s towns is 12%.
Household income at the median: €42,490 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €42,490 a year here, 29% below Ireland (€60,120). Co. Mayo as a whole has a median of €48,670.
26% born outside Ireland, more than in 65% of Irish towns
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 largest groups were born in the UK (15%) and outside the EU and UK (5.9%). For comparison, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. 13% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 61% of Irish towns.
Able to speak Irish: 44% in Louisburgh
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
At 0.9%, daily speakers of Irish outside education sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. 144 residents, 44% of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish.
Louisburgh sits above 80% of Irish towns for residents who describe themselves as White Irish (85%)
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 Louisburgh · Co. Mayo’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (14%), Other, including mixed (0.6%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.3%). For comparison, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. Louisburgh has more residents who said they are Catholic than 77% of Irish towns, at 76%. 17% of residents said they have no religion, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
Louisburgh: 7.6% of residents give unpaid care, above 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.
In Louisburgh, 37% of residents 15 and over are married, beside 34% across Ireland’s towns. For comparison, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
Degree or higher: 36% of adults
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 just over one in ten adults here, while 6.6% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Fewer adults with a degree or higher than in 50% of Irish towns: 36%.
The places around Louisburgh
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisburgh | 367 | — | 46 | 22% | 35% |
| Westport | 6,872 | 19.0 km | 41.3 | 20% | 35% |
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 Louisburgh’s residents
What is the population of Louisburgh?
Louisburgh had 367 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 17% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Louisburgh?
The median age is 46. 20% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Louisburgh?
44% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (144 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Louisburgh?
85% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 26% were born abroad and 13% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Louisburgh?
76% are Catholic, 17% have no religion and 6.7% another religion; 6.5% didn’t say.
Is Louisburgh good for families?
35% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Louisburgh are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Louisburgh?
Median gross household income in Louisburgh was €42,490 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).