Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0Ballybeg is younger than 85% of Irish towns: a median age of 34.4
22% of households have no car or van, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. Ballybeg counted 5,226 residents and 1,858 households at the 2022 Census. In Ballybeg, half of households are parents with children. Lower than in just over three quarters of Irish towns: 13% of residents said they have no religion.
What stands out about the people of Ballybeg
A student neighbourhood
14% of residents aged 15 and over are students, more than in 87% of Irish towns; Ireland’s towns 10%. 15% of residents are 15 to 24. Social class & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
15% of residents are 15 to 24, more than in 84% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
By its share of residents aged 65 and over (11%), Ballybeg is below 69% of Irish towns. Across the comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Ballybeg, 34.4. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Waterford 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
Students among residents 15 and over: 14%, a higher share than 87% 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
Compared with a typical 11%, elementary occupations account for 18% of workers. Here, 5.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Across the comparison, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
2.8 people per household, more than in 69% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Waterford’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
In Ballybeg, 6.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, beside 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. One-person households: 22% of the total.
Households in flats make up 8.1% in Ballybeg, less than in 74% 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
Home broadband covers nine in ten households, while 8.7% go without the internet (typical: 7.6%). As a yardstick, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. 0.1% of homes are holiday homes.
Half of households earn more than €44,540 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 €44,540 gross, 26% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Waterford as a whole has a median of €51,540.
Residents with another country’s citizenship make up 13% in Ballybeg, less than in 60% of Irish towns
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.
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are outside the EU and UK (7.6%) and elsewhere in the EU (5.3%). Across Ireland’s towns, residents with another country’s citizenship come to 15%. Residents born outside Ireland make up 21%, against 22% across Ireland’s towns.
Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.7%, a lower share than 82% 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
Some 1,459 people here, a third of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. As a reference point, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
72% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, fewer than in 71% 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: 72% of Ballybeg · Co. Waterford’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
In Ballybeg, 29% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 84% 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.
At 4.8%, unpaid carers sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Ballybeg ranks below 90% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 20%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
18% of those 15 and over have not yet finished their education. Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
41 towns of 4,726 to 5,792 people: this is the 6th youngest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At the ends of the range sit Woodquay and Nuns Island (32.1), the youngest, and Sutton (45.4), the oldest. Nearest to Ballybeg in age: Inishkenny (33.6), Rathgar (34.2), Carrigtwohill (34.9) and Monasterevin (35.2).
5 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Ballybeg
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballybeg | 5,226 | — | 34.4 | 11% | 50% |
| Kilbarry | 2,758 | 1.1 km | 30.4 | 3.4% | 48% |
| Lisduggan | 6,216 | 1.2 km | 44.3 | 25% | 34% |
| Cleaboy | 3,454 | 1.9 km | 42.1 | 18% | 41% |
| Poleberry | 4,875 | 2.1 km | 36.9 | 17% | 23% |
| Ballytruckle | 6,563 | 2.4 km | 36 | 6.9% | 56% |
| Waterford City Centre | 9,031 | 2.9 km | 38.8 | 17% | 24% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Waterford’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Waterford’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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas
Questions about Ballybeg’s residents
What is the population of Ballybeg?
Ballybeg had 5,226 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood.
What is the average age in Ballybeg?
The median age is 34.4, younger than 85% of Irish towns. 30% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballybeg?
33% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,459 people), and 0.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballybeg?
72% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 21% were born abroad and 13% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballybeg?
71% are Catholic, 13% have no religion and 16% another religion; 14% didn’t say.
Is Ballybeg good for families?
50% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballybeg are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballybeg?
Median gross household income in Ballybeg was €44,540 in 2022, against €51,540 across Co. Waterford 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 · Neighbourhood figures are TownRatings sums of CSO Small Areas. 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).