Photo: DaHuzyBru · CC BY-SA 4.0Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 7.4% in Cappawhite, less than in 99% of Irish towns
78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns, against 96% in Cappawhite. On one-person households, Cappawhite sits higher than 98% of Irish towns: 38%. At the 2022 Census, 403 people lived in the town, in 173 households. Locally, 0.6% of households live in a flat or apartment.
Since 2016, Cappawhite has grown +15%, faster than 81% 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.
The median across Ireland’s towns is +8%, and across Co. Tipperary’s towns +5%.
Cappawhite ranks above 93% of Irish towns on residents aged 65 and over: 21%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Half of Cappawhite’s residents are over 38.8, older than in 64% of Irish towns. Set beside that, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. No age band is larger than 0–4: nearly one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
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.
Students among residents 15 and over: 7.5%, a lower share than 97% 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
28% of Cappawhite’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 14% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 4.3%.
2.3 people per household, fewer than in 90% 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.
38% of households are parents with children; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 43%. Cappawhite has fewer shared households of unrelated adults than 92% of Irish towns, at 2.3%.
Cappawhite: 21% of households have no car or van, above 65% 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
Cappawhite sits close to the norm on holiday homes: 1%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Half above, half below €51,880 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.
At €51,880 a year before tax, the median household income is 14% under that of Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Tipperary, the figure is €52,760.
Only 11% of Cappawhite’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.
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the UK (7.7%) and outside the EU and UK (2.2%). Compared with other places, residents with another country’s citizenship are scarce here: 5.3%, fewer than in 98% of Irish towns. On average, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Daily speakers of Irish outside education make up 0.5% in Cappawhite, less than in 96% of Irish towns
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
In all, 152 residents aged 3 and over (41%) can speak Irish. The highest share in Co. Tipperary belongs to Thurles (1.4%). As a yardstick, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Residents with no religion: 8.5%, a lower share than 98% 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: 96% of Cappawhite · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who said they are Catholic is 87% in Cappawhite and 71% across Ireland’s towns. Typically, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (3.1%), Black or Black Irish (0.3%) and Other, including mixed (0.3%).
In Cappawhite, 7.9% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 99% of Irish towns
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.
29% of residents 15 and over are married, against 34% across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 89% of Irish towns: 20%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
4% of Cappawhite’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 17% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The comparison figure for adults with a degree or higher is 36% across Ireland’s towns.
A younger town than 1 of the 2 around it: Cappawhite
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 Cappawhite’s residents
What is the population of Cappawhite?
Cappawhite had 403 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 15% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Cappawhite?
The median age is 38.8. 26% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Cappawhite?
41% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (152 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Cappawhite?
96% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 11% were born abroad and 5.3% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Cappawhite?
87% are Catholic, 8.5% have no religion and 4.1% another religion; 3.5% didn’t say.
Is Cappawhite good for families?
38% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Cappawhite are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Cappawhite?
Median gross household income in Cappawhite was €51,880 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).