Photo: Charlie Doolally · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 42.1: Cleaboy is older than 90% of Irish towns
78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns, against 89% in Cleaboy. Census day 2022: 3,454 residents and 1,396 households in the neighbourhood. Across Cleaboy, 3.9% of households live in a flat or apartment. Fewer shared households of unrelated adults than in 84% of Irish towns: 2.9%.
What stands out about the people of Cleaboy
Older than most towns
Half of Cleaboy’s residents are under 42.1 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 18% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Cleaboy changed by +4% from 2016 to 2022, behind 72% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +9% across Co. Waterford’s towns.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 77% of Irish towns, at 18%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
On residents aged 15 to 24, 12% here is much the same as across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. 40–44 is the most common age band: 7.8% of residents.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Cleaboy, 42.1. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Waterford 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
In Cleaboy, 4.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 91% 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 Cleaboy, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 28% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 25%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Smaller households than 75% of Irish towns: 2.5 people on average
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 Cleaboy, 27% of households are one person living alone, beside 24% across Ireland’s towns. Locally, just over two in five households are parents with children.
19% of households have no car or van, more than in 56% 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
Holiday homes are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 0.1%. As a yardstick, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Half of households earn more than €49,810 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 €49,810 gross, 17% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Waterford comes in at €51,540 at the median.
In Cleaboy, 14% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 88% 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.
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the UK (4.5%) and elsewhere in the EU (3.3%). Few places have so few residents with another country’s citizenship: 8% here, fewer than in 87% of Irish towns. Set beside that, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Able to speak Irish: 37% in Cleaboy
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 1,167 people here, 37% of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 1.2%.
Above 86% of Irish towns: 79% of residents said they are Catholic
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 Cleaboy · Co. Waterford’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
16% of residents said they have no religion; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 17%. For comparison, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (7%), Other, including mixed (1.8%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.2%).
In Cleaboy, 38% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 75% 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.
Unpaid carers are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 6.2%. To put it in context, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
In Cleaboy, 24% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 81% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, 6.2% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 12% finished at primary level or earlier, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Adults with a degree or higher make up 36% across Ireland’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 2,929 to 4,032 people, the 3rd oldest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 31.8 in Taylor's Hill to 43.5 in Bantry. Nearest to Cleaboy in age: Mitchelstown (41.7), Togher (41.7), Newcastle (42.5) and Bantry (43.5).
Cleaboy and its 6 nearest towns: 1 of them are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census neighbourhood.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaboy | 3,454 | — | 42.1 | 18% | 41% |
| Lisduggan | 6,216 | 0.9 km | 44.3 | 25% | 34% |
| Poleberry | 4,875 | 1.4 km | 36.9 | 17% | 23% |
| Waterford City Centre | 9,031 | 1.7 km | 38.8 | 17% | 24% |
| Ballybeg | 5,226 | 1.9 km | 34.4 | 11% | 50% |
| Kilbarry | 2,758 | 2.8 km | 30.4 | 3.4% | 48% |
| Ballytruckle | 6,563 | 3.0 km | 36 | 6.9% | 56% |
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 Cleaboy’s residents
What is the population of Cleaboy?
Cleaboy had 3,454 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its neighbourhood, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Cleaboy?
The median age is 42.1, older than 90% of Irish towns. 20% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Cleaboy?
37% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,167 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Cleaboy?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 14% were born abroad and 8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Cleaboy?
79% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 5.7% another religion; 5.6% didn’t say.
Is Cleaboy good for families?
41% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 20% of residents are under 18. Schools near Cleaboy are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Cleaboy?
Median gross household income in Cleaboy was €49,810 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).