Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of households in flats than 98% of Irish towns: 1.4%
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Census day 2022: 351 residents and 140 households in Newcastle. Residents who said they are Catholic: 84% of the total. 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns, against 49% locally.
Slower growth than 92% of Irish towns: Newcastle changed by ±0% since 2016
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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +5% across Co. Tipperary’s towns.
A smaller share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 97% of Irish towns: 9.1%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or over (Ireland’s towns: 14%). The median age in Newcastle is 38.4, higher than in nearly three fifths of Irish towns. Measured more widely, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
In Newcastle, 4.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 93% 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
In Newcastle, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 30% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 22%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Above 78% of Irish towns: 29% of households are one person living alone
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.
At 2.5 people, the average household compares with 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Typically, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
1.9% of homes are holiday homes, a share 91% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
Broadband reaches four in five households; 15% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). As a reference point, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 13% of households have no car or van.
The midpoint household income is €47,250 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€47,250 a year before tax puts the median household 21% below Ireland (€60,120). Countywide, Co. Tipperary has a median of €52,760.
Newcastle sits below 94% of Irish towns for residents born outside Ireland (12%)
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.
Another language is spoken at home by 4.8%, most often Polish (2%); 0.3% speak English not well or not at all. At 4.3%, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship is lower than in 98% of Irish towns. Typically, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Only 0.9% of residents speak Irish daily outside education in Newcastle
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%. For daily speakers of Irish outside education, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 1.1%.
Newcastle: 93% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, above 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: 93% of Newcastle · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 12%, below 84% of Irish towns. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 78% across Ireland’s towns. Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (6.1%), Asian or Asian Irish (0.3%) and Other, including mixed (0.3%).
3.7% of residents give unpaid care, below 93% 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.
Just over a third of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns, against 31% in Newcastle. The comparison figure for unpaid carers is 5.4% across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher: 20%, a lower share than 89% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
4.5% of Newcastle’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 13% 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.
No nearby town is as young as Newcastle
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 Newcastle’s residents
What is the population of Newcastle?
Newcastle had 351 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Newcastle?
The median age is 38.4. 29% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Newcastle?
49% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (162 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Newcastle?
93% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 4.3% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Newcastle?
84% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 4% another religion; 1.4% didn’t say.
Is Newcastle good for families?
49% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 29% of residents are under 18. Schools near Newcastle are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Newcastle?
Median gross household income in Newcastle was €47,250 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).