Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0Gortnahoo sits below 99% of Irish towns for residents with no religion (6.5%)
Households of parents with children: 55% here and 43% across Ireland’s towns. Gortnahoo has more one-person households than 72% of Irish towns, at 28%. The 2022 Census put the town’s population at 321, in 124 households. For Gortnahoo, the census puts residents aged 65 and over at 11%.
A +12% change since 2016: Gortnahoo grew faster than 75% 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 Co. Tipperary’s towns the median is +5%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
Gortnahoo is younger than 71% of Irish towns: a median age of 36
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
35–39 is the most common age band: 10% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Ireland’s towns. The census found that 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Gortnahoo.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
56% women, 44% men
About 79 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Tipperary 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
In Gortnahoo, 5.7% of residents 15 and over are students, fewer 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
Nearly a quarter of Gortnahoo’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 24% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Across Gortnahoo, 6.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Gortnahoo households average 2.6 people, smaller than in 65% 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.
Only 12% of households in Gortnahoo have no car or van
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. As a yardstick, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes: 0.7% of the total.
Before tax, the median household income is €47,280 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €47,280 a year here, 21% below Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Tipperary the median is €52,760.
Fewer residents born outside Ireland than 97% of Irish towns: 11%
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 (9.4%) and in Poland (0.6%). 3.8% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 99% of Irish towns. As a reference point, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Daily speakers of Irish outside education make up 0.3% in Gortnahoo, less than in 99% of Irish towns
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
Within Co. Tipperary, Thurles has the largest share, 1.4%. The usual figure: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Above 99% of Irish towns: 95% of residents describe themselves as White Irish
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: 95% of Gortnahoo · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who said they are Catholic is 88% in Gortnahoo and 71% across Ireland’s towns. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns: 78%.
28% of residents 15 and over are married, below 87% 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.
Unpaid carers make up 4.7%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
In Gortnahoo, 18% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 93% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Gortnahoo’s adults, 6.5% went on to postgraduate study and 17% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Adults with a degree or higher: 36% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
The towns around Gortnahoo are all older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gortnahoo | 321 | — | 36 | 11% | 55% |
| Urlingford | 1,196 | 5.3 km | 37.3 | 16% | 50% |
| Thurles | 8,185 | 14.2 km | 40.6 | 19% | 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 Gortnahoo’s residents
What is the population of Gortnahoo?
Gortnahoo had 321 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 12% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Gortnahoo?
The median age is 36. 26% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Gortnahoo?
37% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (107 people), and 0.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Gortnahoo?
95% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 11% were born abroad and 3.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Gortnahoo?
88% are Catholic, 6.5% have no religion and 5.2% another religion; 4.7% didn’t say.
Is Gortnahoo good for families?
55% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Gortnahoo are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Gortnahoo?
Median gross household income in Gortnahoo was €47,280 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).