Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer shared households of unrelated adults than 98% of Irish towns: 1.6%
Residents who said they are Catholic: 89%, above 99% of Irish towns. In 2022, the Census found 978 residents in Ardfinnan, living in 387 households. On the census count, 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24. At 49%, the share of households of parents with children is higher than in 77% of Irish towns.
Ardfinnan changed by +6% from 2016 to 2022, behind 58% 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 median change is +8%; across Co. Tipperary’s towns, +5%.
Half of Ardfinnan is over 40.1, older than 79% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 35–39, with 8.4% of residents. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 76% of Irish towns. In Carrick-on-Suir, the oldest of Co. Tipperary’s towns by this measure, it is 20%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Tipperary 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
In Ardfinnan, 4.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer 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
Work here tilts toward process, plant and machine operatives, at 14% against a typical 7.8%. In Ardfinnan, 9.1% of residents 15 and over are students. Residents who moved in within the year: 7.5% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
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. Tipperary’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
On the census count, 25% of households are one person living alone.
Households in flats: 1.6%, a lower share than 98% 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
Ardfinnan sits close to the norm on holiday homes: 0.9%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Households without a car or van account for 15%. 1.3% of households live in a flat or apartment, less than in 98% of Irish towns, against a typical 12% across Ireland’s towns.
The midpoint household income is €57,200 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Ardfinnan’s households have a gross income above €57,200 a year and half below, close to the median for Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Tipperary, the middle household has €52,760.
A lower share of residents born outside Ireland than 98% of Irish towns, at 8.7%
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.
Residents born abroad were most often born in the UK (4.9%), then in Poland (1.1%). Compared with other places, residents with another country’s citizenship are scarce here: 4.5%, fewer than in 98% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland.
Able to speak Irish: 34% in Ardfinnan
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
Top of Co. Tipperary: Thurles, at 1.4%. At 0.9%, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is lower than in nearly two thirds of Irish towns.
Below 99% of Irish towns: 7% of residents said they have no religion
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: 95% of Ardfinnan · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White Irish, most residents describe themselves as Other White (4.2%), Asian or Asian Irish (0.7%) and Other, including mixed (0.2%). Across Ireland’s towns, residents with no religion come to 17%. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White Irish are common here: 95%, more than in 99% of Irish towns.
Ardfinnan ranks above 99% of Irish towns on unpaid carers: 7.4%
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.
Married residents 15 and over: 37% here and 34% across Ireland’s towns. The benchmark for unpaid carers across Ireland’s towns: 5.4%.
Adults with a degree or higher: 22%, a lower share than 86% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A postgraduate qualification is the highest level for 5.2% of adults; primary level or less for 13% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The share of adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns is 36%.
Ardfinnan is younger than 1 of its 2 nearest neighbours
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. Tipperary’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Tipperary’s towns of 2,500 or more and over 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 Ardfinnan’s residents
What is the population of Ardfinnan?
Ardfinnan had 978 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ardfinnan?
The median age is 40.1. 25% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ardfinnan?
34% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (307 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ardfinnan?
95% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 8.7% were born abroad and 4.5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ardfinnan?
89% are Catholic, 7% have no religion and 4.5% another religion; 3.7% didn’t say.
Is Ardfinnan good for families?
49% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ardfinnan are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ardfinnan?
Median gross household income in Ardfinnan was €57,200 in 2022, against €52,760 across Co. Tipperary 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).