Carlanstown: 60% of households are parents with children, above 98% of Irish towns
The share of households in flats is 0.9%, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. Census day 2022: 718 residents and 235 households in Carlanstown. The census found that 5.2% of residents are 65 or over locally. Higher than in 97% of Irish towns: 84% of residents said they are Catholic.
Carlanstown grew +13% from 2016 to 2022, faster 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +11% across Co. Meath’s towns.
Half of Carlanstown is under 33.1, younger than 93% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
There is little gap on residents aged 15 to 24: 12%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. In Kells, the oldest of Co. Meath’s towns by this measure, it is 14%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Meath 50.7%, Ireland 51.2%.
A larger share of students among residents 15 and over than 64% of Irish towns: 11%
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
Across Ireland’s towns, just over a third of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Carlanstown, 38% and 18%. On the census count, 6.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
In Carlanstown, 0.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 99% 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.
A household here has 3.1 people on average; across Ireland’s towns, 2.7. One-person households account for 16%. As a yardstick, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns.
3.6% of households have no car or van, below 99% 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
Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. As a yardstick, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. 92% of households are on broadband; 5% have no internet connection (typical: 7.6%).
Half above, half below €62,640 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.
Half of Carlanstown’s households have a gross income above €62,640 a year and half below, close to the median for Ireland (€60,120). Co. Meath’s median household income is €70,660.
15% born outside Ireland, fewer than in 86% 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 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.
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the UK (5%) and outside the EU and UK (4.6%). Nearly one in ten residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 79% of Irish towns. The usual figure: 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
In Carlanstown, 40% of residents can speak Irish
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
Carlanstown sits close to the norm on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.9%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. No town in Co. Meath beats Athboy (2.4%).
Below 92% of Irish towns: 10% of residents said they have no religion
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 Carlanstown · Co. Meath’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (8.4%), Black or Black Irish (4.7%) and Other, including mixed (1.7%). Higher than in 79% of Irish towns: 85% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. Across the comparison, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
Unpaid carers make up 3.8% in Carlanstown, less than in 92% 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.
Here, just over a third of residents 15 and over are married. About 30 residents (3.8%) give regular unpaid care (Ireland’s towns 5.4%).
In Carlanstown, 28% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 69% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Carlanstown’s adults, 6.8% went on to postgraduate study and 8.8% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). For comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
The towns around Carlanstown are all older
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 Carlanstown’s residents
What is the population of Carlanstown?
Carlanstown had 718 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 13% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Carlanstown?
The median age is 33.1. 34% are under 18 and 5.2% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Carlanstown?
40% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (267 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Carlanstown?
85% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 9.5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Carlanstown?
84% are Catholic, 10% have no religion and 5.3% another religion; 2.1% didn’t say.
Is Carlanstown good for families?
60% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 34% of residents are under 18. Schools near Carlanstown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Carlanstown?
Median gross household income in Carlanstown was €62,640 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).