Photo: Terry Stewart · CC BY-SA 2.0In Bellanode, 1.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 99% of Irish towns
Households without a car or van make up 8.5%, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. In 2022, the Census found 433 residents in Bellanode, living in 170 households. Here, 9.2% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Lower than in 92% of Irish towns: 10% of residents said they have no religion.
From 2016 to 2022, 77% of Irish towns grew faster than Bellanode: +3%
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. Monaghan’s towns the median is +9%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
Bellanode is older than 79% of Irish towns: a median age of 40.2
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 15%, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. In Clones, the oldest of Co. Monaghan’s towns by this measure, it is 19%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Monaghan 50.7%, Ireland 51.2%.
4.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 86% 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
Compared with a typical 11%, skilled trades account for 17% of workers. Across the comparison, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns. Students among residents 15 and over: a tenth of the total.
In Bellanode, 29% of households are one person living alone, more than in 79% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Monaghan’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Across Ireland’s towns, households average 2.7 people; in Bellanode, 2.5. On average, 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 45% of households are parents with children.
A lower share of households in flats than 86% of Irish towns, at 5.3%
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
Just over one in ten households have no internet access (typical: 7.6%); 88% have broadband. The census found that 1.1% of homes are holiday homes in Bellanode.
Before tax, the median household income is €55,600 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €55,600 a year before tax, the median household income is 8% under that of Ireland (€60,120). Countywide in Co. Monaghan, the median is €50,620.
A lower share of residents with another country’s citizenship than 68% of Irish towns, at 12%
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 40%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 40%
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.
Polish leads the languages spoken at home (6.7%), among the 17% who speak another language there; 3.9% speak English not well or not at all. On residents born outside Ireland, Bellanode sits higher than 57% of Irish towns: 24%. Across the comparison, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
In Bellanode, 41% 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
The ability to speak Irish extends to 162 residents (41% of those aged 3 and over). Daily speakers of Irish outside education are more common here than in nearly three fifths of Irish towns.
In Bellanode, 82% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 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: 83% of Bellanode · Co. Monaghan’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
83% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, against 69% across Co. Monaghan’s towns and 78% across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (16%), Other, including mixed (0.9%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.5%).
A higher share of married residents 15 and over than 78% of Irish towns, at 38%
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.
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 5.1%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Only 31% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher in Bellanode
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Bellanode’s adults, 9.9% went on to postgraduate study and 14% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). The share of adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns is 36%.
No nearby town is as old as Bellanode
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. Monaghan’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Monaghan has fewer than five towns of 2,500 or more, so its figure is the median of its towns of 1,000 or more; the national figure is the median of 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 Bellanode’s residents
What is the population of Bellanode?
Bellanode had 433 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Bellanode?
The median age is 40.2. 27% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Bellanode?
41% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (162 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Bellanode?
83% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 24% were born abroad and 12% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Bellanode?
82% are Catholic, 10% have no religion and 7.5% another religion; 1.6% didn’t say.
Is Bellanode good for families?
45% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 27% of residents are under 18. Schools near Bellanode are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Bellanode?
Median gross household income in Bellanode was €55,600 in 2022, against €50,620 across Co. Monaghan 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).