Photo: Rorser at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5A smaller share of households in flats than 99% of Irish towns: 0.6%
4.5% of residents said they have no religion, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. Census day 2022: 436 residents and 157 households in Scotstown. Here, 55% of households are parents with children. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 96% of Irish towns.
Slower than most: +5% since 2016, behind 65% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +9% across Co. Monaghan’s towns.
Half of Scotstown is under 36, younger than 71% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 35–39, with 9.6% of residents. Scotstown has fewer residents aged 65 and over than 63% of Irish towns, at 12%. 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
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Monaghan 50.7%, Ireland 51.2%.
5.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 83% 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: 8.5% here and 10% across Ireland’s towns. To put it in context, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Scotstown households average 2.8 people, larger than in 66% 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.
One-person households account for 24%.
Fewer households without a car or van than 86% of Irish towns: 7.5%
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: 2.2% here and 0.2% across Ireland’s towns. About one household in 13 lives without a car or van.
Before tax, the median household income is €60,030 a year
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 €60,030 a year here, close to Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Monaghan as a whole, the figure is €50,620.
Residents with another country’s citizenship: 2.4%, a lower share than 99% 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.
Most residents from abroad were born in the UK (12%) or outside the EU and UK (2.6%). Compared with other places, residents born outside Ireland are scarce here: 16%, fewer than in 82% of Irish towns. The benchmark for residents with another country’s citizenship across Ireland’s towns: 15%.
2.8% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, more than in 98% 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
The ability to speak Irish extends to 197 residents (50% of those aged 3 and over). The comparison figure for daily speakers of Irish outside education is 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
Scotstown sits above 99% of Irish towns for residents who describe themselves as White Irish (97%)
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: 97% of Scotstown · Co. Monaghan’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (2.1%), Other, including mixed (0.7%) and Black or Black Irish (0.2%). Few places have as many residents who said they are Catholic: 92% here, more than in 99% of Irish towns. Typically, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of unpaid carers than 99% of Irish towns: 8.7%
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.
In Scotstown, 36% of residents 15 and over are married, beside 34% across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
Only 35% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher in Scotstown
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate: just over one in ten adults. To put it in context, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Primary level or earlier: 10%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
Every nearby town is older than Scotstown
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 Scotstown’s residents
What is the population of Scotstown?
Scotstown had 436 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Scotstown?
The median age is 36. 27% are under 18 and 12% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Scotstown?
50% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (197 people), and 2.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Scotstown?
97% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 2.4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Scotstown?
92% are Catholic, 4.5% have no religion and 3.5% another religion; 2.3% didn’t say.
Is Scotstown good for families?
55% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 27% of residents are under 18. Schools near Scotstown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Scotstown?
Median gross household income in Scotstown was €60,030 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).