Fewer households in flats than 98% of Irish towns: 1.2%
Residents who said they are Catholic: 84%, above 97% of Irish towns. Half of Crossakeel’s residents are over 40.8, older than in 83% of Irish towns. There were 86 households in the town at the 2022 Census, home to 218 residents. For Crossakeel, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 2.3%.
Faster growth than 82% of Irish towns: Crossakeel changed by +15% since 2016
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.
For comparison, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +11% across Co. Meath’s towns.
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 72% of Irish towns: 11%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 11%, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. For comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s 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. Meath 50.7%, Ireland 51.2%.
29% of residents belong to the professional, managerial and technical classes
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 Crossakeel, 29% and 20%. In Crossakeel, 6.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
22% of households are one person living alone, below 60% 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.
Where 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns, Crossakeel has 44%. The comparison figure for one-person households is 24% across Ireland’s towns. Each household has 2.6 people on average.
Fewer car-free households than 77% of Irish towns: 9.6%
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
79% of households are on broadband; 15% have no internet connection (typical: 7.6%). In one household in 10 there is no car or van. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
The midpoint household income is €56,630 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of households are below €56,630 a year before tax: 6% under the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Meath comes in at €70,660 at the median.
Residents with another country’s citizenship make up 8.3% in Crossakeel, less 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.
Set against 22% across Ireland’s towns, 16% of residents were born outside Ireland in Crossakeel. As a yardstick, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. The most common home language after English is Polish (2.3%); in all 8.1% speak another language, and 1.4% speak English not well or not at all.
In Crossakeel, 0.5% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 96% 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
61 residents, 30% of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. The wider picture: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
In Crossakeel, 89% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 92% 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: 89% of Crossakeel · Co. Meath’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (9.1%), Black or Black Irish (1.4%) and Irish Traveller (0.5%). Fewer residents with no religion than in 90% of Irish towns: 11%. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 78%.
Married residents 15 and over: 35%, a higher share than 58% 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.
6% of residents give unpaid care, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
19% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 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
2.2% of Crossakeel’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 14% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). For adults with a degree or higher, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 36%.
Every neighbour of Crossakeel has a younger population
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 Crossakeel’s residents
What is the population of Crossakeel?
Crossakeel had 218 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 15% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Crossakeel?
The median age is 40.8. 24% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Crossakeel?
30% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (61 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Crossakeel?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 8.3% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Crossakeel?
84% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 4.7% another religion; 3.2% didn’t say.
Is Crossakeel good for families?
44% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 24% of residents are under 18. Schools near Crossakeel are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Crossakeel?
Median gross household income in Crossakeel was €56,630 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).