Photo: Peter Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0Bansha is older than 86% of Irish towns: a median age of 41.2
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. The census found that just over one in ten residents said they have no religion in Bansha. 329 residents in 135 households: that is Bansha at the 2022 Census. Across Ireland’s towns, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; in the town, 2.2%.
Bansha changed by +3% from 2016 to 2022, slower 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.
Across Ireland’s towns the median change is +8%; across Co. Tipperary’s towns, +5%.
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 78% of Irish towns: 18%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 10–14, with nearly one in ten residents. Few places have so few residents aged 15 to 24: 11% here, fewer than in 71% 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
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Tipperary 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 86% of Irish towns: 4.9%
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
19% of Bansha’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 23% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 7.5%.
30% of households are one person living alone, a share 80% of Irish towns don’t reach
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.
With households of parents with children at 39%, Bansha is behind 71% of Irish towns on that count. For one-person households, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 24%. Each household has 2.5 people on average.
A holiday town: 2.5% of homes are holiday homes
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
The share of households with broadband is 82%; 15% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Few places have so few households without a car or van: 16% here, fewer than in 55% of Irish towns. To put it in context, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns.
Half above, half below €49,210 a year in household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
The median household earns €49,210 gross, 18% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Tipperary as a whole has a median of €52,760.
Bansha sits below 95% of Irish towns for residents with another country’s citizenship (6.6%)
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.
16% of residents were born outside Ireland, against 22% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 15% of residents are citizens of another country. The largest groups were born in the UK (10%) and outside the EU and UK (4%).
Fewer daily speakers of Irish outside education than 99% of Irish towns: 0.3%
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
89 residents, 29% of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Across Ireland’s towns, daily speakers of Irish outside education come to 1.1%.
A larger share of residents who said they are Catholic than 91% of Irish towns: 81%
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: 88% of Bansha · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (6.1%), Irish Traveller (3.2%) and Other, including mixed (1.6%). More residents who describe themselves as White Irish than in 88% of Irish towns: 88%. The usual figure: 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Only 30% of residents 15 and over are married in Bansha
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.
Unpaid carers make up 5.8%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher make up 15% in Bansha, less than in 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
At the top, 3.7% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 12% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Every nearby town is younger than Bansha
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 Bansha’s residents
What is the population of Bansha?
Bansha had 329 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Bansha?
The median age is 41.2. 22% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Bansha?
29% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (89 people), and 0.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Bansha?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 6.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Bansha?
81% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 8.4% another religion; 6.1% didn’t say.
Is Bansha good for families?
39% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Bansha are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Bansha?
Median gross household income in Bansha was €49,210 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).