Half of Rathmolyon is under 33.4, younger than 91% of Irish towns
4.9% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. Rathmolyon is home to 462 residents in 144 households, by the 2022 Census. For Rathmolyon, the census puts households of parents with children at 56%. On shared households of unrelated adults, Rathmolyon sits lower than 99% of Irish towns: 1.4%.
A +18% change since 2016: Rathmolyon grew faster than 86% 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, half of towns changed by more than +8%; across Co. Meath’s towns, by more than +11%.
Rathmolyon ranks below 89% of Irish towns on residents aged 65 and over: 7.6%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 35–39, with just over one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Typically, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 are more common here than in 79% of Irish towns.
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%.
Students among residents 15 and over make up 11% in Rathmolyon, more than in 58% 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
In Rathmolyon, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 41% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 14%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Fewer residents who moved in within the year than in 53% of Irish towns: 7.2%.
Only 14% of households are one person living alone in Rathmolyon
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.
Across Ireland’s towns, households average 2.7 people; in Rathmolyon, 3.2. For one-person households, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 24%.
Fewer car-free households than 94% of Irish towns: 5.9%
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
Connected households: 91% on broadband; 6.7% offline (typical: 7.6%). For comparison, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
Half above, half below €72,020 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 €72,020 a year before tax, the median household income is 20% above that of Ireland (€60,120). Co. Meath’s median household income is €70,660.
Below 96% of Irish towns: 11% of residents were born outside Ireland
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.
10% speak another language at home, most often Polish (3.9%); 1.3% speak English not well or not at all. As a reference point, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Residents with another country’s citizenship are rarer here than in 98% of Irish towns.
Can speak Irish: 40% of Rathmolyon’s residents
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
Athboy leads Co. Meath with 2.4%. At 1.2%, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is higher than in 59% of Irish towns.
Rathmolyon: 88% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, above 88% 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: 88% of Rathmolyon · Co. Meath’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (6.6%), Asian or Asian Irish (3.6%) and Black or Black Irish (1.1%). Measured more widely, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. Residents who said they are Catholic are more common here than in 83% of Irish towns. There is little gap on residents with no religion: 17%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
2.8% of residents give unpaid care, fewer than in 97% 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.
The share of married residents 15 and over is 37%, against 34% across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
26% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 76% 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, 10% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 9.5% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, adults with a degree or higher come to 36%.
Rathmolyon and its 6 nearest towns: 5 of them are 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 Rathmolyon’s residents
What is the population of Rathmolyon?
Rathmolyon had 462 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 18% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Rathmolyon?
The median age is 33.4. 32% are under 18 and 7.6% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Rathmolyon?
40% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (170 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Rathmolyon?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 11% were born abroad and 5.5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Rathmolyon?
78% are Catholic, 17% have no religion and 5.2% another religion; 4.5% didn’t say.
Is Rathmolyon good for families?
56% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 32% of residents are under 18. Schools near Rathmolyon are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Rathmolyon?
Median gross household income in Rathmolyon was €72,020 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).