Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0Shared households of unrelated adults make up 1.4% in Ballyforan, less than in 99% of Irish towns
Holiday homes: 2.4%, above 92% of Irish towns. 87% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, a higher share than in 85% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 227 residents and 74 households in Ballyforan. The share of households of parents with children stands at 57%.
+4% since 2016, a pace below 72% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +12% across Co. Roscommon’s towns.
Half of Ballyforan is under 34.2, younger than 87% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 10–14, with just over one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over are rarer here than in 77% of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Roscommon 50.1%, Ireland 51.2%.
Students among residents 15 and over make up 8% in Ballyforan, less 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
Compared with 7.5% across Ireland’s towns, 9.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier here. On average, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
3 people per household, more than in 90% 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.
Compared with other places, one-person households are scarce here: 23%, fewer than in 56% of Irish towns.
Below 75% of Irish towns: 10% of households have no car or van
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 usual figure: 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Households here have a median income of €52,280 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
A median gross household income of €52,280 sits 13% below Ireland (€60,120). Countywide in Co. Roscommon, the median is €51,010.
4% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 99% 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 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.
Residents born abroad were most often born in the UK (8.4%), then outside the EU and UK (1.8%). Across the comparison, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Few places have so few residents born outside Ireland: 12% here, fewer than in 94% of Irish towns.
Ballyforan: 1.5% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, above 77% 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: 66 residents, nearly a third of those aged 3 and over. The share of daily speakers of Irish outside education across Ireland’s towns is 1.1%.
Ballyforan: 86% of residents said they are Catholic, above 99% 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: 87% of Ballyforan · Co. Roscommon’s towns 72% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Just over one in ten residents said they have no religion (Ireland’s towns: 17%). On average, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Irish Traveller (6.9%), Other White (5%) and Other, including mixed (1.4%).
Unpaid carers: 9.7%, a higher share than 99% 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.
By its share of married residents 15 and over (37%), Ballyforan is above 69% of Irish towns. For unpaid carers, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 5.4%.
Adults with a degree or higher make up 27% in Ballyforan, less than in 72% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Ballyforan’s adults, 5% went on to postgraduate study and 16% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Across the comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
The towns around Ballyforan are all older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyforan | 227 | — | 34.2 | 10% | 57% |
| Ballinasloe | 6,597 | 16.3 km | 38.5 | 19% | 41% |
| Roscommon | 6,555 | 18.3 km | 38.3 | 16% | 45% |
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 Ballyforan’s residents
What is the population of Ballyforan?
Ballyforan had 227 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballyforan?
The median age is 34.2. 33% are under 18 and 10% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballyforan?
32% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (66 people), and 1.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballyforan?
87% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballyforan?
86% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 2.8% another religion; 4.8% didn’t say.
Is Ballyforan good for families?
57% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 33% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballyforan are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballyforan?
Median gross household income in Ballyforan was €52,280 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).