Photo: Mark Waters · CC BY 2.0Newport: 11% of homes are holiday homes, above 99% of Irish towns
The median age in Newport is 42.7, higher than in 93% of Irish towns. There were 364 households in the town at the 2022 Census, home to 815 residents. Locally, 31% of households are parents with children. The typical household size is 2.2 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns.
Growth of +13% since 2016 puts Newport ahead of 78% 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%.
A lower share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 98% of Irish towns, at 9%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Just over a fifth of Newport is 65 or over, against 14% across Co. Mayo’s towns and 14% across Ireland’s towns. For comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 82 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.
6.6% 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
Where 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns, Newport has 10%. In Newport, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in just over a third of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 15%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns.
40% of households are one person living alone, a share 99% of Irish towns don’t reach
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 are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 4.1%. The usual figure: 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
21% of households live in a flat or apartment, more than in 77% of Irish towns
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
Against a figure of 17% across Ireland’s towns, the share of households without a car or van in Newport comes in at 14%. Across Ireland’s towns, households in flats come to 12%.
Household income at the median: €46,500 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Before tax, the middle household here has €46,500 a year, 23% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). County median: €48,670 (Co. Mayo).
11% of residents are citizens of another country, below 71% 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.
12% speak a language other than English at home, French most of all (2.6%); 1.2% speak English not well or not at all. Across Ireland’s towns, 15% of residents are citizens of another country. Here 23% of residents were born outside Ireland, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 22%.
An Irish-speaking town: 1.5% speak it daily outside education
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 311 people here, 42% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. On average, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
In Newport, 85% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 79% 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 Newport · Co. Mayo’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 17% across Ireland’s towns, 15% of residents said they have no religion in Newport. Higher than in 76% of Irish towns: 76% of residents said they are Catholic. Typically, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. After White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (12%), Other, including mixed (1.6%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.8%).
32% of residents 15 and over are married, below 72% 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.
On unpaid carers, 6.3% here is much the same as across Ireland’s towns. For comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher: 34%, a lower share than 55% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, 12% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 11% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Adults with a degree or higher: 36% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
Newport is older than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
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 Newport’s residents
What is the population of Newport?
Newport had 815 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 13% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Newport?
The median age is 42.7. 22% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Newport?
42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (311 people), and 1.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Newport?
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 Newport?
76% are Catholic, 15% have no religion and 8.8% another religion; 5.2% didn’t say.
Is Newport good for families?
31% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Newport are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Newport?
Median gross household income in Newport was €46,500 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).