Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.05.5% of homes are holiday homes, more than in 96% of Irish towns
Residents aged 15 to 24: 6%, below 99% of Irish towns. More residents who describe themselves as White Irish than in 79% of Irish towns: 85%. At the 2022 Census Ballintober was home to 199 people in 76 households. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 2.6%.
Ballintober grew +16% from 2016 to 2022, ahead of 83% 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 change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +12% across Co. Roscommon’s towns.
In Ballintober, 18% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 78% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Half of Ballintober’s residents are over 38.1, older than in 56% of Irish towns. For comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. The largest age band is 35–39: just over one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Roscommon 50.1%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Students among residents 15 and over make up 5.2% in Ballintober, less 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
Across Ireland’s towns, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier; in Ballintober, 10%. The biggest occupational gap is in administrative and secretarial: 17%, against a typical 9.8%.
2.5 people per household, fewer than in 74% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Roscommon’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Ballintober has fewer households of parents with children than 52% of Irish towns, at 42%. Across Ballintober, 25% of households are one person living alone.
Ballintober ranks below 99% of Irish towns on households without a car or van: 2.9%
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
Home broadband covers 94% of households, while 4.4% go without the internet (typical: 7.6%). For households without a car or van, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 17%.
Households here have a median income of €55,430 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €55,430 a year before tax, the median household income is 8% under that of Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Roscommon as a whole, the figure is €51,010.
Ballintober sits below 80% of Irish towns for residents born outside Ireland (16%)
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 35%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
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.
13% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (5%); 1% speak English not well or not at all. At 9.9%, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship is lower than in 76% of Irish towns. As a yardstick, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
0.6% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, below 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
Speakers of Irish: 81 residents, 47% of those aged 3 and over. In Co. Roscommon, Roscommon has the highest share (1.1%).
A higher share of residents who said they are Catholic than 99% of Irish towns, at 86%
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: 85% of Ballintober · Co. Roscommon’s towns 72% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, 17% of residents said they have no religion; in Ballintober, 10%. Other than White Irish, most residents describe themselves as Other White (13%), Black or Black Irish (0.5%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.5%). For comparison, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Married residents 15 and over make up 33% in Ballintober, less than in 64% 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.
At 6%, the share of unpaid carers is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Only 31% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher in Ballintober
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: 12%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Postgraduate: 7% of adults.
No nearby town is as young as Ballintober
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. Roscommon’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Roscommon 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 Ballintober’s residents
What is the population of Ballintober?
Ballintober had 199 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 16% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballintober?
The median age is 38.1. 25% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballintober?
47% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (81 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballintober?
85% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 9.9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballintober?
86% are Catholic, 10% have no religion and 4.3% another religion; 6% didn’t say.
Is Ballintober good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballintober are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballintober?
Median gross household income in Ballintober was €55,430 in 2022, against €51,010 across Co. Roscommon 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).