Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 33.6: Kinnitty is younger than 90% of Irish towns
In Kinnitty, 86% of residents said they are Catholic, beside 71% across Ireland’s towns. For Kinnitty, the census puts holiday homes at 2.8%. Fewer shared households of unrelated adults than in just over four fifths of Irish towns: 3.1%. This Co. Offaly town counted 270 residents and 96 households at the 2022 Census.
A +10% change since 2016: Kinnitty grew faster than 62% 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.
The median across Ireland’s towns is +8%, and across Co. Offaly’s towns +7%.
Fewer young people than 95% of Irish towns: 10% are 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
5–9 is the most common age band: 11% of residents, 1.7 times the share across Ireland’s towns. On residents aged 65 and over, Kinnitty sits higher than 55% of Irish towns: 14%. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Offaly 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
8% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer than in 93% 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
Work here tilts toward skilled trades, at 22% against a typical 11%. Typically, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. Higher than in 58% of Irish towns: 8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Bigger households than 65% of Irish towns: 2.8 people each on average
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.
Few places have so few one-person households: 23% here, fewer than in 57% of Irish towns. The share of households of parents with children stands at 44%.
Few flats: only 2.1% of households in Kinnitty live in one
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 without a car or van make up 6.5%, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. For households in flats, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 12%.
The middle household earns €55,850 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 €55,850 a year, 7% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). County median: €56,050 (Co. Offaly).
Only 6.3% of residents were born outside Ireland in Kinnitty
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.
Residents with another country’s citizenship make up 3.5%, against 15% across Ireland’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the UK (2.6%) and in Poland (1.5%). Typically, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
0.4% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, below 99% 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
Ferbane leads Co. Offaly with 1%. The share of daily speakers of Irish outside education across Ireland’s towns is 1.1%.
93% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 98% of Irish towns
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: 93% of Kinnitty · Co. Offaly’s towns 87% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents with no religion is 8.8% in Kinnitty and 17% across Ireland’s towns. For residents who describe themselves as White Irish, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 78%.
Only 3.3% of residents give unpaid care in Kinnitty
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.
Across Kinnitty, 34% of residents 15 and over are married. The share of unpaid carers across Ireland’s towns is 5.4%.
28% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 70% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Primary level or earlier: 13%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher. Postgraduate: one in ten adults.
The towns around Kinnitty are all older
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 Kinnitty’s residents
What is the population of Kinnitty?
Kinnitty had 270 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 10% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Kinnitty?
The median age is 33.6. 29% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Kinnitty?
37% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (91 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Kinnitty?
93% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 6.3% were born abroad and 3.5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Kinnitty?
86% are Catholic, 8.8% have no religion and 5.6% another religion; 7.4% didn’t say.
Is Kinnitty good for families?
44% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 29% of residents are under 18. Schools near Kinnitty are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Kinnitty?
Median gross household income in Kinnitty was €55,850 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).