Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Tullamore ranks below 87% of Irish towns on residents with no religion: 12%
By its share of households in flats (9.9%), Tullamore is below 64% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 15,598 residents and 5,624 households locally. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 4.1%. With a median age of 38.1, Tullamore is older than 56% of Irish towns.
Since 2016, Tullamore has changed by +6%, slower than 60% 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%.
14% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 51% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24 are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 12%. The largest age band is 40–44: nearly one in ten residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Tullamore, 38.1. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Offaly 50.9%, Ireland 51.2%.
Below 75% of Irish towns: 9.2% of residents 15 and over are students
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
Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Tullamore, 33% and 17%. More residents who moved in within the year than in 56% of Irish towns: 7.8%.
2.7 people per household, fewer than in 52% 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.
On the census count, 43% of households are parents with children. More one-person households than in 54% of Irish towns: 25%.
19% of households have no car or van, a share 60% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
88% have broadband at home and 10% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Measured more widely, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes.
The middle household earns €53,480 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€53,480 a year before tax puts the median household 11% below Ireland (€60,120). County median: €56,050 (Co. Offaly).
25% of residents were born outside Ireland, a share 63% of Irish towns don’t reach
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.
The most common home language after English is Polish (5.2%); in all 23% speak another language, and 3.7% speak English not well or not at all. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents born outside Ireland is 22%. 18% of residents are citizens of another country, a higher share than in 64% of Irish towns.
In Tullamore, Irish is spoken by 35% of 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
No town in Co. Offaly beats Ferbane (1%). 0.9% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, a lower share than in 65% of Irish towns.
A lower White Irish share than 74% of Irish towns: 71% of residents
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: 71% of Tullamore · Co. Offaly’s towns 87% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White Irish, the biggest groups are Other White (16%), Asian or Asian Irish (5.2%) and Irish Traveller (3.7%). Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 78% across Ireland’s towns. Higher than in 75% of Irish towns: 75% of residents said they are Catholic.
Half of adults have never married
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.
Tullamore sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 6%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, just over a third of residents 15 and over are married.
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 62% of Irish towns: 31%
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 just over one in ten adults here, while 12% stopped 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.
Oldest by rank: 17th of 41 towns of 13,245 to 18,398 people
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Castletroy (29), the youngest, and Ballinteer (44.1), the oldest. Nearest to Tullamore in age: Bishopstown (38), Knocknacarra (38), Leixlip (38.6) and Mallow (38.6).
Tullamore is older than every town around it
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 Tullamore’s residents
What is the population of Tullamore?
Tullamore had 15,598 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Tullamore?
The median age is 38.1, older than 56% of Irish towns. 25% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Tullamore?
35% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (4,744 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Tullamore?
71% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 25% were born abroad and 18% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Tullamore?
75% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 13% another religion; 8.2% didn’t say.
Is Tullamore good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Tullamore are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Tullamore?
Median gross household income in Tullamore was €53,480 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).