Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 32.6: Smithborough is younger than 94% of Irish towns
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. There were 172 households in Smithborough at the 2022 Census, home to 495 residents. On the census count, 54% of households are parents with children. 5.2% of residents said they have no religion, against 17% across Ireland’s towns.
+7% since 2016: slower than 53% 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%.
10% of residents are 65 or over, below 76% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
14% of residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. 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%.
Students among residents 15 and over make up 12% in Smithborough, more than in 77% 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
Residents who moved in within the year make up 5.6%, against 7.5% across Ireland’s towns. On average, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Larger households than 80% of Irish towns: 2.9 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. A quarter of households are one person living alone.
Holiday homes: 1.6%, a higher share than 90% of Irish towns
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 86%, nothing for 12% (typical: 7.6%). Lower than in nearly two thirds of Irish towns: 14% of households have no car or van. To put it in context, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns.
Before tax, the median household income is €46,400 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 €46,400, 23% lower than across Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Monaghan overall, the median comes to €50,620.
18% of residents are citizens of another country, more than in 63% 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.
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born elsewhere in the EU (12%) and in the UK (8.5%). Residents born outside Ireland are more common here than in 57% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 15% of residents are citizens of another country.
In Smithborough, 43% of 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
Irish speakers number 194, or 43% of residents aged 3 and over. The highest share in Co. Monaghan belongs to Monaghan (1.6%). There is little gap on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1.3%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
Above 97% of Irish towns: 84% of residents said they are Catholic
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: 76% of Smithborough · Co. Monaghan’s towns 69% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (20%), Irish Traveller (1.9%) and Other, including mixed (1.7%). 76% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, a lower share than in 59% of Irish towns. The benchmark for residents who said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns: 71%.
In Smithborough, 31% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 75% 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 make up 4%, against 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 86% of Irish towns, at 21%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate: 5% of adults. Typically, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Primary level or earlier: 18%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
Every nearby town is older than Smithborough
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 Smithborough’s residents
What is the population of Smithborough?
Smithborough had 495 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 7% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Smithborough?
The median age is 32.6. 34% are under 18 and 10% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Smithborough?
43% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (194 people), and 1.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Smithborough?
76% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 24% were born abroad and 18% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Smithborough?
84% are Catholic, 5.2% have no religion and 10% another religion; 2.6% didn’t say.
Is Smithborough good for families?
54% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 34% of residents are under 18. Schools near Smithborough are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Smithborough?
Median gross household income in Smithborough was €46,400 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).