Photo: James Emmans · CC BY-SA 2.011% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 89% of Irish towns
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of one-person households is 24%; Carrickmacross has 28%. Census day 2022: 5,745 residents and 2,205 households locally. Households in flats account for 8.5%. The median age here is 36.9, lower than in 60% of Irish towns.
A +11% change since 2016: Carrickmacross grew faster than 67% 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. Monaghan’s towns, by more than +9%.
Residents aged 65 and over: 13%, a lower share than 56% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 40–44, with nearly one in ten residents. On residents aged 15 to 24, Carrickmacross sits higher than 54% of Irish towns: 12%. To put it in context, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Clones, the oldest of Co. Monaghan’s towns by this measure, it is 19%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Carrickmacross, 36.9. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Monaghan 50.7%, Ireland 51.2%.
5.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 79% 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
Workers here lean to process, plant and machine operatives: 16%, against a typical 7.8%. Higher than in 57% of Irish towns: 11% of residents 15 and over are students. Typically, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Smaller households than 62% of Irish towns: 2.6 people on average
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.
The census found that just over two in five households are parents with children in Carrickmacross. 5.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, a higher share than in 56% of Irish towns.
More holiday homes than 79% of Irish towns: 0.8%
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
17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns, against 16% in Carrickmacross. Broadband: 85% of households. As a yardstick, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns.
€46,290 a year: where the middle household sits
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €46,290 a year here, 23% below Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Monaghan, the middle household has €50,620.
More residents born outside Ireland than 83% of Irish towns: 31%
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.
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born elsewhere in the EU (15%) and outside the EU and UK (6.9%). Just over a fifth of residents are citizens of another country, a higher share than in 80% of Irish towns.
39% of Carrickmacross’s 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
Top of Co. Monaghan: Monaghan, at 1.6%. Carrickmacross has more daily speakers of Irish outside education than two thirds of Irish towns, at 1.3%.
Only 69% of residents describe themselves as White Irish in Carrickmacross
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: 69% of Carrickmacross · Co. Monaghan’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White Irish come Other White (21%), Other, including mixed (3.8%) and Asian or Asian Irish (3.3%). On average, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. 73% of residents said they are Catholic, a higher share than in 62% of Irish towns.
Carrickmacross ranks below 67% of Irish towns on married residents 15 and over: 32%
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.
Unpaid carers are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 5%. For comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 69% of Irish towns: 28%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
7.1% of Carrickmacross’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 13% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Adults with a degree or higher make up 36% across Ireland’s towns.
In its size band (5,226 to 6,355), the 17th youngest of 41 towns
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 25.6 in Gillabbey to 45.4 in Sutton. Nearest to Carrickmacross in age: Oranmore (36.6), Inchicore (36.8), Rathcoole (37) and Knockrea (37.4).
Median age: 3 of the 4 towns around Carrickmacross are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrickmacross | 5,745 | — | 36.9 | 13% | 42% |
| Kingscourt | 2,955 | 10.0 km | 35.2 | 10% | 50% |
| Castleblayney | 3,926 | 15.7 km | 38 | 16% | 42% |
| Ardee | 5,478 | 17.9 km | 37.7 | 14% | 46% |
| Bailieborough | 2,974 | 18.2 km | 38.2 | 15% | 43% |
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 Carrickmacross’s residents
What is the population of Carrickmacross?
Carrickmacross had 5,745 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 11% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Carrickmacross?
The median age is 36.9, younger than 60% of Irish towns. 26% are under 18 and 13% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Carrickmacross?
39% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,974 people), and 1.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Carrickmacross?
69% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 31% were born abroad and 22% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Carrickmacross?
73% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 16% another religion; 8% didn’t say.
Is Carrickmacross good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Carrickmacross are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Carrickmacross?
Median gross household income in Carrickmacross was €46,290 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).