Photo: Kweedado2 · CC BY-SA 3.011% said they have no religion, fewer than in 90% of Irish towns
Where just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns, Cashel has 8.8%. Still, at 28%, the share of one-person households is higher than in just over two thirds of Irish towns. The town’s 1,769 households held 4,805 residents at the 2022 Census. There are 7% more residents than in 2016.
Cashel changed by +7% from 2016 to 2022, behind 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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +5% across Co. Tipperary’s towns.
A smaller share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 77% of Irish towns: 11%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 40–44: 8.1% of residents. With a median age of 37.3, Cashel is younger than 55% of Irish towns. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. In Carrick-on-Suir, the oldest of Co. Tipperary’s towns by this measure, it is 20%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Cashel, 37.3. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Tipperary 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
Fewer students among residents 15 and over than 87% of Irish towns: 8.5%
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
Among the working population, skilled trades make up 16%, against a typical 11%. Elsewhere, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 6.8% in Cashel.
Cashel households average 2.6 people, smaller than in 60% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 5.6%. Households of parents with children account for 43%.
Cashel: 1% of homes are holiday homes, above 84% 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
For Cashel, the census puts households without a car or van at 18%. Typically, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns.
The midpoint household income is €46,250 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €46,250 a year before tax, the median household income is 23% under that of Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Tipperary as a whole, the figure is €52,760.
Cashel ranks above 70% of Irish towns on residents with another country’s citizenship: 19%
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 born outside Ireland: 25% here and 22% across Ireland’s towns. 23% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (6.1%); 4.7% speak English not well or not at all. On average, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
In Cashel, 34% of residents can speak Irish
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
At 0.8%, daily speakers of Irish outside education sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Top of Co. Tipperary: Thurles, at 1.4%.
75% of residents said they are Catholic, a share 73% of Irish towns don’t reach
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: 73% of Cashel · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish; in Cashel, 73%. Beyond White Irish, the biggest groups are Other White (18%), Asian or Asian Irish (4.1%) and Other, including mixed (2.6%). Residents who said they are Catholic make up 71% across Ireland’s towns.
Below 67% of Irish towns: 32% of residents 15 and over are married
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 4.8%, the share of unpaid carers is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Cashel ranks below 80% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 24%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
6.9% of Cashel’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 14% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). By way of comparison, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
41 towns of 4,278 to 5,542 people: this is the 19th youngest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Dangan (27.5) and the oldest Fair Hill (44.9). Nearest to Cashel in age: Poleberry (36.9), Carrick-On-Shannon (37.3), Knockrea (37.4) and Mountmellick (37.6).
The towns around Cashel are all 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 Cashel’s residents
What is the population of Cashel?
Cashel had 4,805 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 7% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Cashel?
The median age is 37.3, younger than 55% of Irish towns. 26% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Cashel?
34% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,434 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Cashel?
73% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 25% were born abroad and 19% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Cashel?
75% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 14% another religion; 9.9% didn’t say.
Is Cashel good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Cashel are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Cashel?
Median gross household income in Cashel was €46,250 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).