Photo: JohnArmagh · CC BY-SA 3.0Turlough sits above 99% of Irish towns for households of parents with children (60%)
Against a figure of 78% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish in Turlough comes in at 95%. Fewer residents aged 65 and over than in 92% of Irish towns: 6.6%. The 2022 Census put the town’s population at 379, in 134 households. On the census count, 0.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
A growing town: +8% since 2016, faster than 52% 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.
Below 96% of Irish towns: 9.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 40–44: 14% of residents, 1.7 times the share across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. The median age in Turlough is 37, lower than in 58% of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Mayo 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
A student town: 12% of residents 15 and over are students
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
There is little gap on residents who moved in within the year: 6.7%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Larger households than 71% of Irish towns: 2.8 people on average
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.
Across Turlough, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone.
Turlough ranks below 99% of Irish towns on households without a car or van: 0.8%
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
The figure for households in flats is 3% in Turlough and 12% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 17%. 2% of homes are holiday homes.
Half of households earn more than €68,430 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 €68,430 a year here, 14% above Ireland (€60,120). Co. Mayo’s median household income is €48,670.
9.8% born outside Ireland, fewer than in 98% 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.
Against a figure of 15% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship in Turlough comes in at 2.9%. Elsewhere, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the UK (6.9%) and outside the EU and UK (1.8%).
1.7% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, a share 85% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
In all, 196 residents aged 3 and over (56%) can speak Irish. Typically, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Residents who said they are Catholic: 83%, a higher share than 95% 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: 95% of Turlough · Co. Mayo’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 13% here and 17% across Ireland’s towns. Beyond White Irish, the biggest groups are Other White (3.8%), Other, including mixed (0.5%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.3%). Against that, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Turlough ranks above 93% of Irish towns on married residents 15 and over: 41%
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.
Set against 5.4% across Ireland’s towns, 4% of residents give unpaid care in Turlough. The wider picture: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Turlough: 56% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, above 87% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A fifth of Turlough’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 0.9% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The benchmark for adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns: 36%.
No nearby town is as young as Turlough
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 Turlough’s residents
What is the population of Turlough?
Turlough had 379 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Turlough?
The median age is 37. 35% are under 18 and 6.6% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Turlough?
56% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (196 people), and 1.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Turlough?
95% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 9.8% were born abroad and 2.9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Turlough?
83% are Catholic, 13% have no religion and 3.8% another religion; 3.2% didn’t say.
Is Turlough good for families?
60% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 35% of residents are under 18. Schools near Turlough are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Turlough?
Median gross household income in Turlough was €68,430 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).