Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 46.8: Loughglinn is older than 99% of Irish towns
At 2.1 people, the average household compares with 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Still, 86% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 81% of Irish towns. Loughglinn had 231 residents in 113 households at the 2022 Census. One-person households account for 36%.
Loughglinn grew +13% from 2016 to 2022, faster than 79% 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. Roscommon’s towns +12%.
Only 5.2% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Loughglinn
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 65 and over: 24%, above 97% of Irish towns. No age band is larger than 60–64: 9.5% of residents, 2 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 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.
A lower share of students among residents 15 and over than 99% of Irish towns, at 5.7%
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
22% of Loughglinn’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 20% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 6.2% here.
A smaller share of households of parents with children than 84% of Irish towns: 32%
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.
By its share of shared households of unrelated adults (3.5%), Loughglinn is below 71% of Irish towns. As a yardstick, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
Only 14% of households in Loughglinn 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. Across Ireland’s towns, 17% of households have no car or van. The share of holiday homes stands at 0.7%. No internet at all: 22% (typical: 7.6%).
Households here have a median income of €38,310 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of households are below €38,310 a year before tax: 36% under the Ireland median (€60,120). That compares with €51,010 across Co. Roscommon.
Loughglinn sits below 71% of Irish towns for residents with another country’s citizenship (11%)
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.
Another language is spoken at home by 8.4%, most often French (0.4%); 1.3% speak English not well or not at all. Residents with another country’s citizenship: 15% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. Across Ireland’s towns, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland; in Loughglinn, 20%.
Irish: 31% of Loughglinn’s residents can speak it
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
Within Co. Roscommon, Roscommon has the largest share, 1.1%. There is little gap on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 1%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
Residents who said they are Catholic: 78%, a higher share than 84% 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: 86% of Loughglinn · Co. Roscommon’s towns 72% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (11%), Irish Traveller (1.9%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1%). The wider picture: 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 17% of residents said they have no religion; in Loughglinn, 16%.
A higher share of unpaid carers than 99% of Irish towns, at 7.8%
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.
The share of married residents 15 and over trails 77% of Irish towns: 30%. Set beside that, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
16% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 96% of Irish towns
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 5.2% of adults here, while 23% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). For adults with a degree or higher, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 36%.
The towns around Loughglinn are all younger
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loughglinn | 231 | — | 46.8 | 24% | 32% |
| Castlerea | 2,348 | 8.1 km | 43.1 | 22% | 31% |
| Ballaghaderreen | 2,387 | 8.8 km | 35.6 | 16% | 39% |
| Ballyhaunis | 2,773 | 15.2 km | 34.5 | 12% | 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 Loughglinn’s residents
What is the population of Loughglinn?
Loughglinn had 231 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 13% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Loughglinn?
The median age is 46.8. 18% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Loughglinn?
31% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (62 people), and 1% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Loughglinn?
86% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 20% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Loughglinn?
78% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 6.1% another religion; 8.2% didn’t say.
Is Loughglinn good for families?
32% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 18% of residents are under 18. Schools near Loughglinn are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Loughglinn?
Median gross household income in Loughglinn was €38,310 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).