Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 44: Puckaun is older than 96% of Irish towns
3% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. The 2022 Census put Puckaun’s population at 245, in 99 households. Across Puckaun, 29% of households are parents with children. Few places have as many one-person households: 31% here, more than in 88% of Irish towns.
Slower than most: +3% since 2016, behind 77% 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%.
In Puckaun, 25% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 98% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
70–74 is the most common age band: 9% of residents, 2.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns. At 12%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is higher than in 54% of Irish towns. To put it in context, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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 Puckaun, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, more than in 78% 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
31% of Puckaun’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 17% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
A smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 95% of Irish towns: 2%
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.
In Puckaun the average household is 2.5 people, beside 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. The share of shared households of unrelated adults across Ireland’s towns is 4.7%.
A larger share of holiday homes than 96% of Irish towns: 5.9%
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
17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns, against 4.1% in Puckaun. For comparison, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns. Broadband: 85% of households.
Half above, half below €59,670 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 €59,670 gross, about the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Tipperary’s median household income is €52,760.
Only 7.2% of residents are citizens of another country in Puckaun
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 (9.2%) and outside the EU and UK (3.8%). Fewer residents born outside Ireland than in 86% of Irish towns: 15%.
In Puckaun, Irish is spoken by 37% of 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
Puckaun sits close to the norm on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.9%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Some 83 people here, 37% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. The highest share in Co. Tipperary belongs to Thurles (1.4%).
89% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 95% 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: 89% of Puckaun · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who said they are Catholic is 81%, against 71% across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (7.3%), Other, including mixed (3%) and Black or Black Irish (0.4%). On residents with no religion, Puckaun sits higher than just over half of Irish towns: 17%.
In Puckaun, 13% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 99% 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.
Compared with 34% across Ireland’s towns, 38% of residents 15 and over are married here. Elsewhere, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 88% of Irish towns: 21%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Puckaun’s adults, 5.9% went on to postgraduate study and 16% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). The benchmark for adults with a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns: 36%.
Puckaun 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puckaun | 245 | — | 44 | 25% | 29% |
| Nenagh | 9,895 | 7.7 km | 38.4 | 14% | 41% |
| Borrisokane | 1,117 | 10.4 km | 38.5 | 18% | 42% |
| Portumna | 1,690 | 18.0 km | 41.3 | 21% | 38% |
| Ballina | 2,959 | 18.5 km | 39.6 | 11% | 54% |
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 Puckaun’s residents
What is the population of Puckaun?
Puckaun had 245 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Puckaun?
The median age is 44. 19% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Puckaun?
37% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (83 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Puckaun?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 7.2% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Puckaun?
81% are Catholic, 17% have no religion and 2.1% another religion; 2.9% didn’t say.
Is Puckaun good for families?
29% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 19% of residents are under 18. Schools near Puckaun are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Puckaun?
Median gross household income in Puckaun was €59,670 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).