Photo: C Michael Hogan · CC BY-SA 2.0No religion: 6.9% of residents, a lower share than 99% of Irish towns
Across Ireland’s towns, 24% of households are one person living alone; in Clones, 36%. At 19%, the share of residents aged 65 and over is higher than in 85% of Irish towns. In 2022, the Census found 1,885 residents locally, living in 784 households. The share of households of parents with children stands at 37%.
What stands out about the people of Clones
More born abroad than anywhere else in Co. Monaghan
39% of residents were born abroad, against 31% across Co. Monaghan’s towns and 22% across Ireland’s towns. The largest groups were born elsewhere in the EU (14%) and outside the EU and UK (13%); 28% are citizens of another country. Where people were born ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Clones’s population changed by +15% since 2016, more than in 82% 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.
Set beside +8% across Ireland’s towns and +9% across Co. Monaghan’s towns.
Only 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Clones
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Half of Clones’s residents are over 39.5, older than in 73% of Irish towns. The biggest five-year age group is 30–34, with 7.8% of residents. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Monaghan 50.7%, Ireland 51.2%.
Students among residents 15 and over make up 7.7% in Clones, less than in 97% 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
By occupation, process, plant and machine operatives are over-represented: 23%, against a typical 7.8%. The census found that 5.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Clones. Set beside that, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
2.4 people per household, fewer than in 86% 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.
Here 3.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 4.7%.
A larger share of households without a car or van than 85% of Irish towns: 31%
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
Internet at home: broadband for 79%, nothing for 19% (typical: 7.6%). For households without a car or van, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 17%. The share of households in flats stands at 9.2%. More holiday homes than in just over three quarters of Irish towns: 0.7%.
Before tax, the median household income is €34,300 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Households here have a median gross income of €34,300, 43% lower than across Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Monaghan, the middle household has €50,620.
Clones sits above 92% of Irish towns for residents born outside Ireland (39%)
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 50%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 50%
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.
30% speak another language at home, most often Polish (1.3%); 9.9% speak English not well or not at all. Residents with another country’s citizenship are more common here than in 89% of Irish towns. Against that, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
1.1% of residents speak Irish every day outside education
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
Speakers of Irish: 528 residents, 30% of those aged 3 and over. In Co. Monaghan, Monaghan has the highest share (1.6%).
67% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, below 81% 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: 67% of Clones · Co. Monaghan’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (20%), Other, including mixed (5.3%) and Asian or Asian Irish (4.9%). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 78%. More residents who said they are Catholic than in 73% of Irish towns: 75%.
Married residents 15 and over: 33%, a lower share than 60% 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.
Unpaid carers: 6%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. Measured more widely, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
17% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 93% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Primary level or earlier: 21%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Postgraduate: 4.1% of adults.
2 in 3 nearby towns have a higher median age than Clones
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 Clones’s residents
What is the population of Clones?
Clones had 1,885 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 15% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Clones?
The median age is 39.5. 23% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Clones?
30% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (528 people), and 1.1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Clones?
67% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 39% were born abroad and 28% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Clones?
75% are Catholic, 6.9% have no religion and 18% another religion; 2% didn’t say.
Is Clones good for families?
37% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Clones are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Clones?
Median gross household income in Clones was €34,300 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).