Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 45.3: Belmont is older than 98% of Irish towns
The figure for residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 92% in Belmont and 78% across Ireland’s towns. This Co. Offaly town had 179 residents in 68 households at the 2022 Census. Here, 1.5% of households live in a flat or apartment. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 84% of Irish towns.
Belmont changed by +1% from 2016 to 2022, slower than 88% 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 Co. Offaly’s towns the median is +7%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 17% in Belmont, more than in 76% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 13%, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. Measured more widely, 14% of residents are 65 or over 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. Offaly 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
Students among residents 15 and over: 6.9%, a lower share than 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
Skilled trades stand out among workers: 27%, against a typical 11%. Measured more widely, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. Here, 6.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
2.6 people per household, fewer than in 62% 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.
24% of households are one person living alone. More households of parents with children than in 51% of Irish towns: 43%.
Fewer car-free households than 85% of Irish towns: 7.7%
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
Broadband reaches four in five households; 16% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). To put it in context, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns.
Median gross household income: €49,580 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Belmont’s households have a gross income below €49,580 a year, 18% under the median for Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Offaly overall, the median comes to €56,050.
Residents born outside Ireland make up 10% in Belmont, less than in 97% 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.
At home, 5.2% use another language, chiefly Polish (1.7%), and 0.6% speak English not well or not at all. On residents with another country’s citizenship, Belmont sits lower than 90% of Irish towns: 7.6%. The wider picture: 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Can speak Irish: 15% of Belmont’s 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
Ferbane leads Co. Offaly with 1%. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
Belmont ranks below 99% of Irish towns on residents with no religion: 5.2%
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: 92% of Belmont · Co. Offaly’s towns 87% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 71% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who said they are Catholic in Belmont comes in at 91%. For residents with no religion, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 17%.
Above 99% of Irish towns: 11% of residents give unpaid care
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.
Where just over a third of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns, Belmont has 41%. The share of unpaid carers across Ireland’s towns is 5.4%.
In Belmont, 18% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 93% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate qualifications are held by 7% of adults here, while 16% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). The comparison figure for adults with a degree or higher is 36% across Ireland’s towns.
Every nearby town is younger than Belmont
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 Belmont’s residents
What is the population of Belmont?
Belmont had 179 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 1% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Belmont?
The median age is 45.3. 14% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Belmont?
15% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (26 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Belmont?
92% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 10% were born abroad and 7.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Belmont?
91% are Catholic, 5.2% have no religion and 4% another religion; 3.4% didn’t say.
Is Belmont good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 14% of residents are under 18. Schools near Belmont are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Belmont?
Median gross household income in Belmont was €49,580 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).