Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Rosses Point is over 47.2, older than 99% of Irish towns
Where 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns, Rosses Point has 14%. In Rosses Point, 93% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. Compared with other places, one-person households are common here: 28%, more than in 73% of Irish towns. This Co. Sligo town had 883 residents in 335 households at the 2022 Census.
A change of −4% since 2016 leaves Rosses Point behind 99% 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%.
Above 99% of Irish towns: 28% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 trails 80% of Irish towns: 11%. As a yardstick, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
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%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
8.6% of residents moved in within a year, more than in 66% 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, 34% of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Rosses Point, 66% and 5.8%. Elsewhere, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Below 99% of Irish towns: 0.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home
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.
Households of parents with children: 40% here and 43% across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Ireland’s towns.
Households in flats: 3%, a lower share than 95% of Irish towns
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
Across Ireland’s towns, 17% of households have no car or van; in Rosses Point, 5.5%. Measured more widely, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
€73,880 a year: the median household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Households here have a median gross income of €73,880, 23% higher than across Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Sligo, the figure is €50,440.
Residents with another country’s citizenship make up 4.8% in Rosses Point, less than in 98% 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 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.
Where 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns, Rosses Point has 15%. The largest groups were born in the UK (11%) and outside the EU and UK (1.6%).
1.9% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, more than in 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 ability to speak Irish extends to 457 residents (54% of those aged 3 and over). On average, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
More residents who said they are Catholic than 64% of Irish towns: 73%
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: 93% of Rosses Point · Co. Sligo’s towns 81% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (5.3%), Asian or Asian Irish (1.2%) and Other, including mixed (0.4%). Elsewhere, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Little separates the share of residents with no religion here, 17%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns.
In Rosses Point, 46% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 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.
Against a figure of 5.4% across Ireland’s towns, the share of unpaid carers in Rosses Point comes in at 7.8%. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of adults with a degree or higher than 88% of Irish towns: 57%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Rosses Point’s adults, 25% went on to postgraduate study and 4.5% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). As a reference point, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Rosses Point is older than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosses Point | 883 | — | 47.2 | 28% | 40% |
| Strandhill | 1,982 | 4.9 km | 41.1 | 14% | 44% |
| Sligo | 20,608 | 6.6 km | 38.5 | 17% | 33% |
| Ballysadare | 1,747 | 10.8 km | 35.5 | 11% | 41% |
| Collooney | 1,797 | 14.4 km | 34.9 | 9.6% | 48% |
| Coolaney | 1,155 | 15.4 km | 34 | 5.9% | 58% |
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 Rosses Point’s residents
What is the population of Rosses Point?
Rosses Point had 883 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 4% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Rosses Point?
The median age is 47.2. 22% are under 18 and 28% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Rosses Point?
54% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (457 people), and 1.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Rosses Point?
93% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 4.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Rosses Point?
73% are Catholic, 17% have no religion and 9.6% another religion; 1.4% didn’t say.
Is Rosses Point good for families?
40% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Rosses Point are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Rosses Point?
Median gross household income in Rosses Point was €73,880 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).