Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0Ballycumber is older than 93% of Irish towns: a median age of 42.9
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 97% here and 78% across Ireland’s towns. 1.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, a lower share than in 99% of Irish towns. Ballycumber is home to 216 residents in 83 households, by the 2022 Census. Across Ballycumber, 3.6% of households live in a flat or apartment.
A ±0% change since 2016: slower than 92% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +7% across Co. Offaly’s towns.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 86% of Irish towns, at 19%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.7%, below 97% of Irish towns. To put it in context, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Offaly 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
In Ballycumber, 5.9% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer than in 99% 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
The occupation that stands out is caring, leisure and other services: 16%, where 8.3% is typical. Against that, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. The census found that 14% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Ballycumber.
Ballycumber households average 2.5 people, smaller than in 71% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Offaly’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Across Ballycumber, 43% of households are parents with children. Fewer one-person households than in 52% of Irish towns: 24%.
A larger share of holiday homes than 86% of Irish towns: 1.1%
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
Across Ireland’s towns, 17% of households have no car or van; in Ballycumber, 15%. Measured more widely, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns.
The middle household earns €55,210 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Before tax, the middle household here has €55,210 a year, 8% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). Countywide in Co. Offaly, the median is €56,050.
6% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 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 30%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
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.
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship is 15%; Ballycumber has 2.8%. Residents born outside Ireland make up 22% across Ireland’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the UK (4.2%) and outside the EU and UK (1.9%).
More daily speakers of Irish outside education than 77% of Irish towns: 1.5%
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
69 residents, just over a third of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Across Ireland’s towns, daily speakers of Irish outside education come to 1.1%.
Ballycumber sits below 99% of Irish towns for residents with no religion (6.6%)
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 Ballycumber · Co. Offaly’s towns 87% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who said they are Catholic is 71%; Ballycumber has 90%. Set beside that, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
6.9% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 96% 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.
Higher than in 57% of Irish towns: 35% of residents 15 and over are married. The wider picture: 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
20% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 88% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Ballycumber’s adults, 6.3% went on to postgraduate study and 16% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Against that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Every neighbour of Ballycumber has a younger population
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. Offaly’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Offaly 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 Ballycumber’s residents
What is the population of Ballycumber?
Ballycumber had 216 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Ballycumber?
The median age is 42.9. 25% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballycumber?
34% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (69 people), and 1.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballycumber?
97% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 6% were born abroad and 2.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballycumber?
90% are Catholic, 6.6% have no religion and 3.8% another religion; 1.9% didn’t say.
Is Ballycumber good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballycumber are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballycumber?
Median gross household income in Ballycumber was €55,210 in 2022, against €56,050 across Co. Offaly 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).