Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0In Stradbally, 14% of homes are holiday homes, more than in 99% of Irish towns
With a median age of 43.2, Stradbally is older than 94% of Irish towns. In 2022, the Census found 500 residents here, living in 190 households. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 1.6%. Residents who said they are Catholic: 79% here and 71% across Ireland’s towns.
A +11% change since 2016: faster than 71% 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.
Set beside +8% across Ireland’s towns and +9% across Co. Waterford’s towns.
Stradbally ranks above 90% of Irish towns on residents aged 65 and over: 20%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.6% here and 12% across Ireland’s 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
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Waterford 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
43% of residents belong to the professional, managerial and technical classes
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
Little separates the share of students among residents 15 and over here, 9.3%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: nearly a tenth of the total.
Stradbally households average 2.7 people, smaller than in 55% 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.
Against a figure of 43% across Ireland’s towns, the share of households of parents with children in Stradbally comes in at 44%. Nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone.
Stradbally sits below 98% of Irish towns for households without a car or van (4.3%)
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
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Across the comparison, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Median gross household income: €49,500 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Stradbally’s households have a gross income below €49,500 a year, 18% under the median for Ireland (€60,120). Co. Waterford’s median household income is €51,540.
Stradbally ranks below 82% of Irish towns on residents born outside Ireland: 16%
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 (11%) or elsewhere in the EU (2.4%). To put it in context, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. 9.6% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 79% of Irish towns.
Irish speakers make up 39% of Stradbally
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
Daily speakers of Irish outside education make up 0.8%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. The ability to speak Irish extends to 184 residents (39% of those aged 3 and over). In Co. Waterford, Dungarvan has the highest share (2%).
More residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 95% of Irish towns: 89%
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 Stradbally · Co. Waterford’s towns 77% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White Irish are Other White (10%), Other, including mixed (0.4%) and Black or Black Irish (0.2%). Set beside that, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. Residents with no religion are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns: 17%.
45% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 98% 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.
5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns, against 6.8% in Stradbally. The usual figure: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Stradbally sits below 57% of Irish towns for adults with a degree or higher (33%)
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Stradbally’s adults, 13% went on to postgraduate study and 11% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). The wider picture: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Stradbally 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stradbally | 500 | — | 43.2 | 20% | 44% |
| Ballinroad | 1,389 | 8.6 km | 34.9 | 8% | 57% |
| Dungarvan | 10,081 | 12.0 km | 40.5 | 18% | 41% |
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.
Questions about Stradbally’s residents
What is the population of Stradbally?
Stradbally had 500 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 11% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Stradbally?
The median age is 43.2. 27% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Stradbally?
39% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (184 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Stradbally?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 9.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Stradbally?
79% are Catholic, 17% have no religion and 4.1% another religion; 2.6% didn’t say.
Is Stradbally good for families?
44% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 27% of residents are under 18. Schools near Stradbally are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Stradbally?
Median gross household income in Stradbally was €49,500 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. 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).