Fewer residents with no religion than 99% of Irish towns: 2.5%
With one-person households at 13%, Killurin is behind 97% of Irish towns on that count. Still, half of the town’s residents are over 41.9, older than in 89% of Irish towns. This Co. Offaly town is home to 167 residents in 56 households, by the 2022 Census. Households without a car or van: 5.6% of the total.
Killurin’s population moved +7% on 2016, less than in 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +7% across Co. Offaly’s towns.
19% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 87% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 60–64 than any other five-year age: 9% of residents, 1.9 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Typically, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24: a tenth of the total.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Offaly 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 99% of Irish towns, at 1.8%
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
Where 11% is typical, skilled trades take in 28% of workers. The census found that nearly one in ten residents 15 and over are students in Killurin. The benchmark for residents who moved in within the year across Ireland’s towns: 7.5%.
Only 1.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Killurin
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 Ireland’s towns, 43% of households are parents with children; in Killurin, 48%. Average household size: 3.1 people. Elsewhere, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns.
98% of homes are houses
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. The share of households with broadband is 85%; 13% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%).
The middle household earns €64,070 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Killurin’s households have a gross income above €64,070 a year, 7% above the median for Ireland (€60,120). Co. Offaly comes in at €56,050 at the median.
Below 98% of Irish towns: 9% of residents were born outside Ireland
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.
Where 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns, Killurin has 4.3%. Set beside that, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the UK (6.6%) and outside the EU and UK (1.8%).
Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.6%, a lower share than 90% 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
No town in Co. Offaly beats Ferbane (1%). Measured more widely, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Above 99% of Irish towns: 96% of residents describe themselves as White Irish
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: 96% of Killurin · Co. Offaly’s towns 87% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who said they are Catholic is 94%, against 71% across Ireland’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 78% across Ireland’s towns. The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (1.8%), Black or Black Irish (1.2%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.6%).
Killurin ranks above 99% of Irish towns on unpaid carers: 10%
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.
Compared with 34% across Ireland’s towns, 46% of residents 15 and over are married here. Across Ireland’s towns, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care.
Killurin ranks below 85% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 22%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Killurin’s adults, 5.3% went on to postgraduate study and 9.6% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Adults with a degree or higher: 36% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
Older than Killurin: 1 of the 6 towns nearby
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 Killurin’s residents
What is the population of Killurin?
Killurin had 167 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 7% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Killurin?
The median age is 41.9. 22% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Killurin?
42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (67 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Killurin?
96% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 9% were born abroad and 4.3% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Killurin?
94% are Catholic, 2.5% have no religion and 3.7% another religion; 2.4% didn’t say.
Is Killurin good for families?
48% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Killurin are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Killurin?
Median gross household income in Killurin was €64,070 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).