Photo: kevin higgins · CC BY-SA 2.0A holiday town: 3.3% of homes are holiday homes
Here 2.8% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 17%. In 2022, the Census found 151 residents in Drangan, living in 56 households. Households of parents with children: half of the total. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in just over three quarters of Irish towns.
From 2016 to 2022, 77% of Irish towns grew faster than Drangan: +3%
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 typical town changed +8%; across Co. Tipperary’s towns, +5%.
A median age of 36.5: Drangan is younger than 65% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 5–9: 12% of residents, 1.8 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24: 11% of the total.
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%.
A lower share of students among residents 15 and over than 99% of Irish towns, at 6.5%
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
Against a figure of 7.5% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year in Drangan comes in at 1.3%. The usual figure: 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Drangan ranks above 74% of Irish towns on one-person households: 29%
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.
Households average 2.6 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Elsewhere, 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
3.6% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 94% 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
8% of households have no internet access (typical: 7.6%); 88% have broadband. The benchmark for households in flats across Ireland’s towns: 12%. In one household in 7 there is no car or van.
Before tax, the median household income is €55,430 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
The median household earns €55,430 gross, 8% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). That compares with €52,760 across Co. Tipperary.
A smaller share of residents born outside Ireland than 99% of Irish towns: 7.3%
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.
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the UK (6.6%) and elsewhere in the EU (0.7%). 3.4% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 99% of Irish towns. The comparison figure for residents born outside Ireland is 22% across Ireland’s towns.
Can speak Irish: 31% of Drangan’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
The ability to speak Irish extends to 41 residents (31% of those aged 3 and over). Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
Residents who said they are Catholic make up 93% in Drangan, more than in 99% 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: 90% of Drangan · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 90% here and 78% across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Married residents 15 and over make up 22% in Drangan, less than in 98% 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.
Few places have so few unpaid carers: 5.3% here, fewer than in 54% of Irish towns. Against that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Drangan ranks below 99% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 8.1%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Drangan’s adults, 1.2% went on to postgraduate study and 14% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Drangan is younger than every town around it
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 Drangan’s residents
What is the population of Drangan?
Drangan had 151 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Drangan?
The median age is 36.5. 31% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Drangan?
31% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (41 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Drangan?
90% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 7.3% were born abroad and 3.4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Drangan?
93% are Catholic, 2.8% have no religion and 4.2% another religion; 6% didn’t say.
Is Drangan good for families?
50% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 31% of residents are under 18. Schools near Drangan are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Drangan?
Median gross household income in Drangan was €55,430 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).