Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domain1.7% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 98% of Irish towns
The figure for residents who said they are Catholic is 85% in Fethard and 71% across Ireland’s towns. At 31%, the share of one-person households is higher than in 84% of Irish towns. There were 705 households here at the 2022 Census, home to 1,738 residents. Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 10% here.
What stands out about the people of Fethard
Many carers
About 120 residents (6.8%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 95% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Fethard grew +9% from 2016 to 2022, ahead of 60% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns the median change is +8%; across Co. Tipperary’s towns, +5%.
Half of Fethard is over 38.9, older than 66% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
In Fethard, 16% of residents are 65 or over, beside 14% across Ireland’s towns. More residents are 35–39 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Tipperary 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
Fethard sits below 97% of Irish towns for students among residents 15 and over (7.7%)
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 Fethard comes in at 5.4%. The wider picture: 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
Households here average 2.4 people, below 82% 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 make up 3.5%, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 43% of households are parents with children.
Households without a car or van: 20%, a higher share than 61% 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
Holiday homes make up 0.8%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. One household in 5 has no car or van.
The midpoint household income is €41,350 a year
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 €41,350, 31% lower than across Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Tipperary, the middle household has €52,760.
13% of residents were born outside Ireland, below 93% 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.
7% of residents are citizens of another country; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 15%. Across Ireland’s towns, residents born outside Ireland come to 22%. The largest groups were born in the UK (6.4%) and outside the EU and UK (3.9%).
Fewer daily speakers of Irish outside education than 99% of Irish towns: 0.4%
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 highest share in Co. Tipperary belongs to Thurles (1.4%). Across Ireland’s towns, daily speakers of Irish outside education come to 1.1%. Some 512 people here, nearly a third of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish.
Residents with no religion: 7.1%, a lower share than 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: 88% of Fethard · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 88%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. After White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (6.8%), Irish Traveller (2.4%) and Other, including mixed (1.2%).
Married residents 15 and over: 30%, a lower share than 82% 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.
6.8% of residents give unpaid care; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 5.4%. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 89% of Irish towns, at 20%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
5% of Fethard’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 14% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Typically, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Fethard and its 3 nearest towns: 2 of them are 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 Fethard’s residents
What is the population of Fethard?
Fethard had 1,738 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Fethard?
The median age is 38.9. 24% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Fethard?
32% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (512 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Fethard?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 13% were born abroad and 7% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Fethard?
85% are Catholic, 7.1% have no religion and 8.5% another religion; 4.7% didn’t say.
Is Fethard good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 24% of residents are under 18. Schools near Fethard are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Fethard?
Median gross household income in Fethard was €41,350 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).