Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.07.3% said they have no religion, fewer than in 99% of Irish towns
With a median age of 40.1, Golden is older than 79% of Irish towns. At the 2022 Census Golden was home to 362 people in 135 households. Just over one in ten households have no car or van. The figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 6.7% in Golden and 4.7% across Ireland’s towns.
A +9% change since 2016: faster than 56% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +5% across Co. Tipperary’s towns.
More residents aged 65 and over than 86% of Irish towns: 19%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 tops 83% of Irish towns: 14%. More residents are 40–44 than any other five-year age: 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%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
31% of residents belong to the professional, managerial and technical classes
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
Elementary occupations stand out among workers: 21%, against a typical 11%. 7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Smaller households than 52% of Irish towns: 2.7 people on average
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.
For Golden, the census puts one-person households at 25%. Nothing unusual on households of parents with children: 43%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns.
Only 5.2% of households live in a flat or apartment in Golden
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
On holiday homes, 0.6% here is much the same as across Ireland’s towns. Households in flats make up 12% across Ireland’s towns.
Half above, half below €56,370 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.
The median household earns €56,370 gross, 6% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Tipperary as a whole has a median of €52,760.
Golden ranks below 67% of Irish towns on residents born outside Ireland: 18%
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.
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the UK (7%) and elsewhere in the EU (6.4%). Set beside that, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. 12% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 64% of Irish towns.
Irish speakers: 35% of Golden’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
Some 111 people here, 35% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 96% of Irish towns: 89%
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: 89% of Golden · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (8.7%), Other, including mixed (0.9%) and Black or Black Irish (0.6%). The wider picture: 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. 83% of residents said they are Catholic, a higher share than in 96% of Irish towns.
35% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 56% of Irish towns don’t reach
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.
Unpaid carers are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 5%. The wider picture: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 93% of Irish towns: 18%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Across Ireland’s towns, one in ten adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Golden, 12%, and 6.1% hold a postgraduate qualification. As a yardstick, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Older than Golden: 1 of the 4 towns nearby
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 Golden’s residents
What is the population of Golden?
Golden had 362 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Golden?
The median age is 40.1. 22% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Golden?
35% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (111 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Golden?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 12% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Golden?
83% are Catholic, 7.3% have no religion and 9.4% another religion; 8.6% didn’t say.
Is Golden good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Golden are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Golden?
Median gross household income in Golden was €56,370 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).