Photo: Rathkennamike2 · CC BY-SA 4.0A family town: 56% of households are parents with children
The share of households in flats trails 82% of Irish towns: 6.4%. Few places have so few shared households of unrelated adults: 2% here, fewer than in 95% of Irish towns. In 2022, the Census found 1,870 residents in Ballivor, living in 636 households. Across Ballivor, four in five residents said they are Catholic.
What stands out about the people of Ballivor
A town of families
42% of households are couples with children and 14% lone parents with children, more than in 93% of Irish towns; 25% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Ballivor’s residents are under 34.2 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 15% are 15 to 24 and 7.2% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A +3% change since 2016: slower than 79% 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 Co. Meath’s towns the median is +11%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
Younger than 87% of Irish towns: half of Ballivor is under 34.2
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
People aged 65 and over make up 7.2% of residents, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24: 15% of the total.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Meath 50.7%, Ireland 51.2%.
In Ballivor, 5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 85% 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
30% of Ballivor’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 19% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. On average, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Ballivor households average 3 people, larger than in 84% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Meath’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
One-person households: 21%, below two thirds of Irish towns.
Fewer households without a car or van than 94% of Irish towns: 5.7%
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
0.6% of homes are holiday homes, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. The comparison figure for households without a car or van is 17% across Ireland’s towns.
Half above, half below €59,030 a year in household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €59,030 a year before tax, the median household income is near that of Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Meath overall, the median comes to €70,660.
Fewer residents born abroad than 88% of Irish towns: 14%
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 30%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
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.
13% speak another language at home, most often Polish (2.5%); 2.1% speak English not well or not at all. Lower than in 84% of Irish towns: 8.7% of residents are citizens of another country. Across Ireland’s towns, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland.
Daily speakers of Irish outside education make up 0.7% in Ballivor, less than in 82% of Irish towns
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
579 residents, 33% of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. For daily speakers of Irish outside education, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 1.1%.
87% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 86% 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: 87% of Ballivor · Co. Meath’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 17% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with no religion in Ballivor comes in at 12%. As a reference point, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (9.8%), Black or Black Irish (1%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1%).
Fewer unpaid carers than 84% of Irish towns: 4.4%
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: 32%, below 67% of Irish towns. For unpaid carers, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 5.4%.
Adults with a degree or higher make up 19% in Ballivor, less than in 91% 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 postgraduate qualification is the highest level for 4.3% of adults; primary level or less for 9.4% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Adults with a degree or higher make up 36% across Ireland’s towns.
Ballivor sits below 4 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
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. Meath’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Meath’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 Ballivor’s residents
What is the population of Ballivor?
Ballivor had 1,870 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballivor?
The median age is 34.2. 31% are under 18 and 7.2% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballivor?
33% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (579 people), and 0.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballivor?
87% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 14% were born abroad and 8.7% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballivor?
80% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 7.8% another religion; 4.3% didn’t say.
Is Ballivor good for families?
56% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 31% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballivor are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballivor?
Median gross household income in Ballivor was €59,030 in 2022, against €70,660 across Co. Meath 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).