Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Younger than 99% of Irish towns: half of Scotshouse is under 29.3
17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns, against 4.8% in Scotshouse. The 2022 Census counted 317 residents in 108 households. The share of residents with no religion stands at 11%. On households of parents with children, Scotshouse sits higher than 97% of Irish towns: 58%.
+8% since 2016, a pace 52% of Irish towns didn’t match
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.
8.2% of residents are 65 or over, below 87% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 12%; Scotshouse has 10%. By way of comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. No age band is larger than 0–4: just over one in ten residents, 2 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Monaghan 50.7%, Ireland 51.2%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 4% in Scotshouse, less than in 94% 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
Students among residents 15 and over: 9.8%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Scotshouse households average 2.9 people, larger than in 81% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. One-person households: nearly a quarter of the total.
A holiday town: 0.8% of homes are holiday homes
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
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, holiday homes come to 0.2%. Internet at home: broadband for 92%, nothing for 7.8% (typical: 7.6%).
Households here have a median income of €50,750 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of households are below €50,750 a year before tax: 16% under the Ireland median (€60,120). County median: €50,620 (Co. Monaghan).
13% of residents are citizens of another country, below 62% 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.
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the UK (11%) and elsewhere in the EU (6.7%). Residents with another country’s citizenship make up 15% across Ireland’s towns. Few places have as many residents born outside Ireland: 22% here, more than in just over half of Irish towns.
0.4% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 99% of Irish towns
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
Irish speakers number 103, or 36% of residents aged 3 and over. On average, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
81% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 94% 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: 84% of Scotshouse · Co. Monaghan’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
84% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, against 69% across Co. Monaghan’s towns and 78% across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Below 89% of Irish towns: 27% of residents 15 and over are married
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.
On unpaid carers, 5.7% here is much the same as across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Below 69% of Irish towns: 28% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A postgraduate qualification is the highest level for 8.7% of adults; primary level or less for 13% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Across Ireland’s towns, adults with a degree or higher come to 36%.
No nearby town is as young as Scotshouse
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 Scotshouse’s residents
What is the population of Scotshouse?
Scotshouse had 317 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Scotshouse?
The median age is 29.3. 37% are under 18 and 8.2% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Scotshouse?
36% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (103 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Scotshouse?
84% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 22% were born abroad and 13% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Scotshouse?
81% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 7.7% another religion; 1.9% didn’t say.
Is Scotshouse good for families?
58% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 37% of residents are under 18. Schools near Scotshouse are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Scotshouse?
Median gross household income in Scotshouse was €50,750 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).