Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainHalf of Silvermines is over 43.4, older than 95% of Irish towns
Here 1.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 4.7%. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish are more common here than in 99% of Irish towns. At the 2022 Census Silvermines was home to 301 people in 119 households. The census found that 0.8% of households live in a flat or apartment in the town.
Slower growth than 80% of Irish towns: Silvermines changed by +2% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns the median change is +8%; across Co. Tipperary’s towns, +5%.
Silvermines: 21% of residents are 65 or over, above 92% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Where just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns, Silvermines has 14%. 45–49 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Tipperary 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
Silvermines ranks below 97% of Irish towns on residents who moved in within the year: 3.3%
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 Silvermines, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 31% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 20%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The share of residents who moved in within the year across Ireland’s towns is 7.5%.
One-person households: 31%, a higher share than 87% 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.
Households average 2.5 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. For Silvermines, the census puts households of parents with children at 43%. The usual figure: 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Households without a car or van: 11%, a lower share than 73% 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
72% have broadband at home and 16% no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). As a reference point, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 1.4% of homes are holiday homes.
The midpoint household income is €55,080 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
The median household earns €55,080 gross, 8% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). Across Co. Tipperary, the middle household has €52,760.
A lower share of residents born outside Ireland than 93% of Irish towns, at 13%
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.
Most residents from abroad were born in the UK (8%) or in Poland (2%). The share of residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns is 22%. Fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than in 95% of Irish towns: 6.6%.
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
Some 129 people here, 47% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Elsewhere, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
86% of residents said they are Catholic, a share 99% of Irish towns don’t reach
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: 94% of Silvermines · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (5.4%), Irish Traveller (0.4%) and Other, including mixed (0.4%). Lower than in 96% of Irish towns: 9% of residents said they have no religion. The wider picture: 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
7.6% of residents give unpaid care, a share 99% 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.
Here, just over a third of residents 15 and over are married. About 20 residents (7.6%) give regular unpaid care (Ireland’s towns 5.4%).
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 85% of Irish towns: 22%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate qualifications are held by 3.9% of adults here, while 21% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). The comparison figure for adults with a degree or higher is 36% across Ireland’s towns.
No nearby town is as old as Silvermines
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 Silvermines’s residents
What is the population of Silvermines?
Silvermines had 301 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Silvermines?
The median age is 43.4. 22% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Silvermines?
47% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (129 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Silvermines?
94% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 13% were born abroad and 6.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Silvermines?
86% are Catholic, 9% have no religion and 5.4% another religion; 8% didn’t say.
Is Silvermines good for families?
43% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Silvermines are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Silvermines?
Median gross household income in Silvermines was €55,080 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).