Photo: David P Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0Dromineer is older than 99% of Irish towns: a median age of 56.8
One-person households make up 39%, against 24% across Ireland’s towns. Across Dromineer, just over two in five homes are holiday homes. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish are more common here than in 82% of Irish towns. The 2022 Census put the town’s population at 94, in 46 households.
Dromineer grew +8% from 2016 to 2022, ahead of 52% 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.
More residents aged 65 and over than 98% of Irish towns: 25%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
7.4% of residents are aged 15 to 24; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 12%. Measured more widely, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
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%.
Students among residents 15 and over make up 3.6% in Dromineer, less than in 99% 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
Across Ireland’s towns, 34% of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Dromineer, 47% and 12%. At 3.3%, the share of residents who moved in within the year is lower than in 97% of Irish towns.
2.1 people per household, fewer than in 98% 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 rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Locally, 28% of households are parents with children.
Fewer car-free households than 88% of Irish towns: 7.1%
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
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Elsewhere, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Half above, half below €64,220 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.
Households here have a median gross income of €64,220, 7% higher than across Ireland (€60,120). Co. Tipperary’s median household income is €52,760.
14% born outside Ireland, fewer than in 88% 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 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.
Here one in ten residents are citizens of another country, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 15%. Elsewhere, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. The largest groups were born in the UK (5.4%) and outside the EU and UK (5.4%).
Irish: 49% of Dromineer’s residents can speak it
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, 43 residents aged 3 and over (49%) can speak Irish. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
Only 64% of residents said they are Catholic in Dromineer
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: 86% of Dromineer · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 20%, above 64% of Irish towns. Typically, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
Dromineer sits above 99% of Irish towns for unpaid carers (14%)
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.
45% of residents 15 and over are married (Ireland’s towns: 34%). Across Ireland’s towns, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care.
Dromineer: 38% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, above 57% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
16% of Dromineer’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 6.8% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Against that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Dromineer is older than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dromineer | 94 | — | 56.8 | 25% | 28% |
| Nenagh | 9,895 | 8.1 km | 38.4 | 14% | 41% |
| Borrisokane | 1,117 | 12.8 km | 38.5 | 18% | 42% |
| Ballina | 2,959 | 16.3 km | 39.6 | 11% | 54% |
| Killaloe | 1,666 | 17.3 km | 41 | 19% | 37% |
| Portumna | 1,690 | 19.1 km | 41.3 | 21% | 38% |
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 Dromineer’s residents
What is the population of Dromineer?
Dromineer had 94 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Dromineer?
The median age is 56.8. 13% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Dromineer?
49% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (43 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Dromineer?
86% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 14% were born abroad and 9.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Dromineer?
64% are Catholic, 20% have no religion and 16% another religion; 7.4% didn’t say.
Is Dromineer good for families?
28% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 13% of residents are under 18. Schools near Dromineer are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Dromineer?
Median gross household income in Dromineer was €64,220 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).