Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0Ballingarry is older than 91% of Irish towns: a median age of 42.4
Shared households of unrelated adults: 1.8%, below 97% of Irish towns. Here, 5.3% of residents said they have no religion. Holiday homes are more common here than in 92% of Irish towns. At the 2022 Census Ballingarry was home to 291 people in 112 households.
Growth of +8% since 2016 puts Ballingarry ahead of 53% 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.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 91% of Irish towns, at 20%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 5–9 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents. Residents aged 15 to 24 are rarer here than in three quarters of Irish towns. Against that, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Tipperary 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
Ballingarry sits below 99% of Irish towns for residents who moved in within the year (1.4%)
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
Students among residents 15 and over are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 9.1%. Residents who moved in within the year make up 7.5% across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of one-person households than 69% of Irish towns: 28%
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.
Against a figure of 43% across Ireland’s towns, the share of households of parents with children in Ballingarry comes in at 41%. The comparison figure for one-person households is 24% across Ireland’s towns. On average, 2.7 people share a household.
Only 0.9% of households live in a flat or apartment in Ballingarry
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 home, 72% have broadband, while 18% have no internet access (typical: 7.6%). To put it in context, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Households without a car or van: 17% of the total.
Before tax, the median household income is €47,440 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €47,440 a year here, 21% below Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Tipperary as a whole, the figure is €52,760.
Only 7.9% of Ballingarry’s residents were born outside Ireland
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 with another country’s citizenship: 3.1%, below 99% of Irish towns. Measured more widely, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Another language is spoken at home by 5.7%, most often Polish (1.7%); 1% speak English not well or not at all.
Irish: 27% of Ballingarry’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
Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Within Co. Tipperary, Thurles has the largest share, 1.4%.
More residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 99% of Irish towns: 97%
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: 97% of Ballingarry · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns, against 90% in Ballingarry. For comparison, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of married residents 15 and over than 63% of Irish towns, at 33%
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.
5.5% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 55% of Irish towns. By way of comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Below 96% of Irish towns: 15% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Ballingarry’s adults, 2.2% went on to postgraduate study and 24% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
The towns around Ballingarry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballingarry | 291 | — | 42.4 | 20% | 41% |
| Callan | 2,678 | 11.6 km | 37.6 | 14% | 48% |
| Urlingford | 1,196 | 14.7 km | 37.3 | 16% | 50% |
| Fethard | 1,738 | 17.0 km | 38.9 | 16% | 43% |
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 Ballingarry’s residents
What is the population of Ballingarry?
Ballingarry had 291 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballingarry?
The median age is 42.4. 23% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballingarry?
27% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (74 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballingarry?
97% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 7.9% were born abroad and 3.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballingarry?
90% are Catholic, 5.3% have no religion and 5% another religion; 3.1% didn’t say.
Is Ballingarry good for families?
41% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballingarry are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballingarry?
Median gross household income in Ballingarry was €47,440 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).