Photo: Anne Burgess · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 34.9: Collooney is younger than 81% of Irish towns
Compared with 24% across Ireland’s towns, 28% of households are one person living alone here. Few places have as many households of parents with children: 48% here, more than in three quarters of Irish towns. The 2022 Census counted 1,797 residents in 681 households. The share of households without a car or van stands at 11%.
Collooney grew +16% from 2016 to 2022, faster than 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.
Across Ireland’s towns, the typical town changed +8%; across Co. Sligo’s towns, +10%.
9.6% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 81% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
40–44 is the most common age band: 11% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Lower than in 92% of Irish towns: 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Across Ireland’s towns, 14% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Sligo 52.2%, Ireland 51.2%.
37% of residents belong to the professional, managerial and technical classes
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
Workers here lean to caring, leisure and other services: 11%, against a typical 8.3%. For Collooney, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 7.9%.
2.7 people per household, fewer than in 55% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Sligo’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Nothing unusual on shared households of unrelated adults: 4.1%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of households in flats than 62% of Irish towns: 15%
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
At 0.9%, the share of holiday homes is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
€49,980 a year is the median household income here
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
The median household earns €49,980 gross, 17% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Sligo comes in at €50,440 at the median.
A lower share of residents with another country’s citizenship than 62% of Irish towns, at 13%
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 largest groups were born in the UK (7%) and outside the EU and UK (6.1%). Residents with another country’s citizenship make up 15% across Ireland’s towns. At 22%, residents born outside Ireland sit close to the figure 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
The highest share in Co. Sligo belongs to Sligo (1.1%). Speakers of Irish: 621 residents, 38% of those aged 3 and over.
Collooney: 75% of residents said they are Catholic, above 72% 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: 78% of Collooney · Co. Sligo’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (12%), Asian or Asian Irish (3.3%) and Irish Traveller (2.4%). 14% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 70% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, residents who said they are Catholic come to 71%. There is little gap on residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 78%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
Collooney sits below 78% of Irish towns for married residents 15 and over (30%)
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.
5.3% of residents give unpaid care. Set beside that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher: 36%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
9.6% of Collooney’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 8.9% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%).
Collooney and its 5 nearest towns: 4 of them are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collooney | 1,797 | — | 34.9 | 9.6% | 48% |
| Ballysadare | 1,747 | 3.6 km | 35.5 | 11% | 41% |
| Coolaney | 1,155 | 7.3 km | 34 | 5.9% | 58% |
| Sligo | 20,608 | 9.9 km | 38.5 | 17% | 33% |
| Ballymote | 1,711 | 10.6 km | 40.2 | 18% | 37% |
| Strandhill | 1,982 | 11.8 km | 41.1 | 14% | 44% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Sligo’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Sligo 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 Collooney’s residents
What is the population of Collooney?
Collooney had 1,797 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 16% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Collooney?
The median age is 34.9. 30% are under 18 and 9.6% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Collooney?
38% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (621 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Collooney?
78% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 22% were born abroad and 13% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Collooney?
75% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 11% another religion; 6.8% didn’t say.
Is Collooney good for families?
48% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Collooney are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Collooney?
Median gross household income in Collooney was €49,980 in 2022, against €50,440 across Co. Sligo 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).