Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 0.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Newbliss
Residents with no religion: 9.8% here and 17% across Ireland’s towns. Newbliss had 352 residents in 144 households at the 2022 Census. Here, 3.5% of households live in a flat or apartment. More one-person households than in 93% of Irish towns: 33%.
From 2016 to 2022, Newbliss outgrew 68% of Irish towns: +11%
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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +9% across Co. Monaghan’s towns.
Newbliss is older than 68% of Irish towns: a median age of 39.1
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 0–4: 9.1% of residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Across Newbliss, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 56% of Irish 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%.
8.4% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer than in 89% 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 Newbliss, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in a fifth of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 29%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The census found that 5.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier locally.
Households here average 2.4 people, below 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.
Across Newbliss, 42% of households are parents with children.
A smaller share of households without a car or van than 67% of Irish towns: 14%
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
Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. Elsewhere, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. 83% have broadband at home and 15% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%).
Before tax, the median household income is €50,090 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€50,090 a year before tax puts the median household 17% below Ireland (€60,120). Countywide, Co. Monaghan has a median of €50,620.
Residents with another country’s citizenship: 7.9%, a lower share than 88% 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 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.
12% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (1.4%); 2.3% speak English not well or not at all. Lower than in 59% of Irish towns: 20% of residents were born outside Ireland. Against that, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
Daily Irish outside education: 2.2% of 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
Speakers of Irish: 115 residents, 36% of those aged 3 and over. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1%.
88% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, a share 88% of Irish towns don’t reach
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 Newbliss · Co. Monaghan’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (9.3%), Black or Black Irish (1.8%) and Other, including mixed (1.2%). The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 78% across Ireland’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who said they are Catholic are common here: 74%, more than in two thirds of Irish towns.
Newbliss ranks below 97% of Irish towns on unpaid carers: 2.8%
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.
Married residents 15 and over: 30%, below 80% of Irish towns. Elsewhere, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
15% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 96% 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: 19%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. For adults with a degree or higher, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 36%. Postgraduate: 5.6% of adults.
Of the 4 towns nearest Newbliss, 3 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. 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 Newbliss’s residents
What is the population of Newbliss?
Newbliss had 352 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 11% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Newbliss?
The median age is 39.1. 25% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Newbliss?
36% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (115 people), and 2.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Newbliss?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 20% were born abroad and 7.9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Newbliss?
74% are Catholic, 9.8% have no religion and 16% another religion; 4% didn’t say.
Is Newbliss good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Newbliss are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Newbliss?
Median gross household income in Newbliss was €50,090 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).