Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.09.6% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 95% of Irish towns
One-person households: 31% here and 24% across Ireland’s towns. Meanwhile, 2.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 92% of Irish towns. Borrisokane is home to 1,117 residents in 428 households, by the 2022 Census. On the census count, 18% of residents are 65 or over.
Borrisokane grew +17% from 2016 to 2022, faster than 85% 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 Borrisokane is over 38.5, older than 61% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Against a figure of 12% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 in Borrisokane comes in at 11%. More residents are 10–14 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents.
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. Tipperary 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 75% of Irish towns: 5.8%
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
30% of Borrisokane’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 19% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The benchmark for residents who moved in within the year across Ireland’s towns: 7.5%.
Households here average 2.6 people, below 65% 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.
The share of households of parents with children stands at 42%.
Borrisokane: 0.8% of homes are holiday homes, above 79% 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
One in ten households live in a flat or apartment, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 16% of households have no car or van. Holiday homes: 0.2% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
The midpoint household income is €42,110 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Borrisokane’s households have a gross income below €42,110 a year, 30% under the median for Ireland (€60,120). Co. Tipperary as a whole has a median of €52,760.
More residents with another country’s citizenship than 59% of Irish towns: 16%
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 outside the EU and UK (10%) and in the UK (8.3%). Residents with another country’s citizenship: 15% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. Compared with other places, residents born outside Ireland are common here: 23%, more than in 54% of Irish towns.
Irish speakers: 38% of Borrisokane’s residents
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
378 residents, 38% of those aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in nearly two thirds of Irish towns.
In Borrisokane, 77% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 79% 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: 80% of Borrisokane · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 80%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Beyond White Irish, the biggest groups are Other White (7.7%), Black or Black Irish (5.8%) and Asian or Asian Irish (3.9%).
Fewer married residents 15 and over than 73% of Irish towns: 31%
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.
At 5.8%, unpaid carers sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher make up 20% in Borrisokane, less than in 89% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Across Ireland’s towns, 9.7% of adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Borrisokane, 18%, and 5.4% hold a postgraduate qualification. The comparison figure for adults with a degree or higher is 36% across Ireland’s towns.
Borrisokane and its 3 nearest towns: 2 of them are older
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 Borrisokane’s residents
What is the population of Borrisokane?
Borrisokane had 1,117 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 17% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Borrisokane?
The median age is 38.5. 27% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Borrisokane?
38% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (378 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Borrisokane?
80% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 23% were born abroad and 16% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Borrisokane?
77% are Catholic, 9.6% have no religion and 14% another religion; 7.1% didn’t say.
Is Borrisokane good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 27% of residents are under 18. Schools near Borrisokane are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Borrisokane?
Median gross household income in Borrisokane was €42,110 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).