Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0A lower share of residents with no religion than 89% of Irish towns, at 11%
Half of Cahir’s residents are over 39.4, older than in 71% of Irish towns. This Co. Tipperary town is home to 3,679 residents in 1,388 households, by the 2022 Census. On the census count, 7.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. Compared with 43% across Ireland’s towns, 39% of households are parents with children here.
What stands out about the people of Cahir
More born abroad than anywhere else in Co. Tipperary
33% of residents were born abroad, against 22% across Co. Tipperary’s towns and 22% across Ireland’s towns. The largest groups were born elsewhere in the EU (12%) and outside the EU and UK (11%); 27% are citizens of another country. Where people were born ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
From 2016 to 2022, 73% of Irish towns grew faster than Cahir: +4%
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.
For comparison, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +5% across Co. Tipperary’s towns.
Cahir ranks below 69% of Irish towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 11%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Across Ireland’s towns, 14% of residents are 65 or over; in Cahir, 15%. The largest age band is 40–44: nearly one in ten residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Cahir, 39.4. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Tipperary 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
In Cahir, 8.4% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer than in 89% 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
The biggest occupational gap is in process, plant and machine operatives: 21%, against a typical 7.8%. Lower than in nearly three quarters of Irish towns: 5.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. On average, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of one-person households than 63% of Irish towns: 27%
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.
A household here has 2.6 people on average; across Ireland’s towns, 2.7. One-person households make up 24% across Ireland’s towns.
19% of households have no car or van, more than in 59% 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
11% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. On average, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Across Cahir, 0.6% of homes are holiday homes.
Half above, half below €46,580 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 €46,580 gross, 23% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). County median: €52,760 (Co. Tipperary).
33% of residents were born outside Ireland, more than in 87% 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 40%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 40%
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 make up 27%, against 15% across Ireland’s towns. Typically, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born elsewhere in the EU (12%) and outside the EU and UK (11%).
In Cahir, Irish is spoken by 31% of 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
Some 971 people here, 31% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Compared with other places, daily speakers of Irish outside education are scarce here: 0.8%, fewer than in 74% of Irish towns.
A smaller share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 84% of Irish towns: 65%
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: 65% of Cahir · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who said they are Catholic trails 64% of Irish towns: 68%. For residents who describe themselves as White Irish, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 78%. The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (25%), Other, including mixed (5.3%) and Irish Traveller (1.8%).
Cahir sits below 86% of Irish towns for unpaid carers (4.3%)
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.
Set against 34% across Ireland’s towns, 36% of residents 15 and over are married in Cahir. Measured more widely, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 85% of Irish towns: 22%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate: 6.1% of adults. The usual figure: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Primary level or earlier: 12%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 3,124 to 4,315 people, the 7th oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 31.8 in Taylor's Hill to 46.5 in Montenotte. Nearest to Cahir in age: Ballyfermot (38.8), Tower (39.4), Crosshaven (39.9) and Prospect and Newtown Pery (40.8).
Older than Cahir: 2 of the 4 towns nearby
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 Cahir’s residents
What is the population of Cahir?
Cahir had 3,679 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Cahir?
The median age is 39.4, older than 71% of Irish towns. 22% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Cahir?
31% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (971 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Cahir?
65% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 33% were born abroad and 27% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Cahir?
68% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 21% another religion; 12% didn’t say.
Is Cahir good for families?
39% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Cahir are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Cahir?
Median gross household income in Cahir was €46,580 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).