Photo: Sheila1988 · CC0A lower share of shared households of unrelated adults than 98% of Irish towns, at 1.6%
Here nearly one in ten residents said they have no religion, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 17%. Households in flats: 3.9% of the total. With a median age of 41.1, Templemore is older than 85% of Irish towns. The town counted 2,005 residents and 829 households at the 2022 Census.
What stands out about the people of Templemore
Many older residents
20% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 89% of Irish towns; 4.8% are 80 or over, and 33% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Many carers
About 140 residents (6.8%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 95% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
+3% since 2016: slower than 79% 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%.
Residents aged 65 and over: 20%, a higher share than 89% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 7.5% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 are rarer here than in 83% of Irish towns. On average, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Tipperary 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
Templemore ranks below 84% of Irish towns on students among residents 15 and over: 8.6%
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 Templemore, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in just over a quarter of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 19%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 6.9% of the total.
33% of households are one person living alone, a share 93% of Irish towns don’t reach
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.
The figure for households of parents with children is 39% in Templemore and 43% across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns. Households here average 2.4 people each.
Households without a car or van: 22%, a higher share than 71% 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
The share of households with broadband is 81%; 17% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Holiday homes account for 0.2%. Every 5th household or so has no car or van.
The midpoint household income is €43,180 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 €43,180 a year here, 28% below Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Tipperary overall, the median comes to €52,760.
A smaller share of residents born outside Ireland than 90% of Irish towns: 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.
11% speak another language at home, most often Polish (3.8%); 2.2% speak English not well or not at all. At 8.4%, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship is lower than in 85% of Irish towns. The share of residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns is 22%.
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
Thurles leads Co. Tipperary with 1.4%. Across the comparison, 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: 88% of Templemore · Co. Tipperary’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 78% across Ireland’s towns, 88% of residents describe themselves as White Irish in Templemore. Elsewhere, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (7.5%), Other, including mixed (2.3%) and Irish Traveller (1.5%).
6.8% of residents give unpaid care, a share 95% 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.
Married residents 15 and over: just over a third of the total. Set beside that, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 83% of Irish towns: 23%
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 5.7% of adults here, while 11% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). On average, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Every neighbour of Templemore has a younger population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Templemore | 2,005 | — | 41.1 | 20% | 39% |
| Thurles | 8,185 | 13.2 km | 40.6 | 19% | 38% |
| Rathdowney | 1,368 | 17.5 km | 37.4 | 17% | 43% |
| Roscrea | 5,542 | 17.8 km | 37.8 | 15% | 43% |
| Urlingford | 1,196 | 19.1 km | 37.3 | 16% | 50% |
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 Templemore’s residents
What is the population of Templemore?
Templemore had 2,005 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Templemore?
The median age is 41.1. 23% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Templemore?
43% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (800 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Templemore?
88% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 13% were born abroad and 8.4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Templemore?
86% are Catholic, 8.2% have no religion and 5.6% another religion; 3.7% didn’t say.
Is Templemore good for families?
39% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 23% of residents are under 18. Schools near Templemore are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Templemore?
Median gross household income in Templemore was €43,180 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).