Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Castlepollard: 82% of residents said they are Catholic, above 94% of Irish towns
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is 4.7%; Castlepollard has 2.3%. Residents aged 65 and over account for 17%. Compared with other places, households in flats are scarce here: 5.3%, fewer than in 86% of Irish towns. The 2022 Census put the town’s population at 1,349, in 526 households.
What stands out about the people of Castlepollard
Many carers
About 90 residents (7%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 96% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Growth of +12% since 2016 puts Castlepollard ahead of 75% 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. Westmeath’s towns the median is +11%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
Half of Castlepollard is over 39.3, older than 69% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 12%; Castlepollard has 13%. 10–14 is the most common age band: 8% of residents.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Westmeath 50.8%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Only 6.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Castlepollard
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
At 9.7%, the share of students among residents 15 and over is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
31% of households are one person living alone, a share 84% of Irish towns don’t reach
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Westmeath’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
At 2.6 people, the average household compares with 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Castlepollard has fewer households of parents with children than two thirds of Irish towns, at 40%. The comparison figure for one-person households is 24% across Ireland’s towns.
Below 67% of Irish towns: 13% of households have no car or van
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 80%; 17% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). In Castlepollard, 0.5% of homes are holiday homes. Every 7th household or so has no car or van.
A median household income of €42,430 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€42,430 a year before tax puts the median household 29% below Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Westmeath overall, the median comes to €57,430.
Castlepollard sits below 78% of Irish towns for residents with another country’s citizenship (9.7%)
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.
12% speak another language at home, most often Polish (3.7%); 1% speak English not well or not at all. Across Ireland’s towns, residents with another country’s citizenship come to 15%. On residents born outside Ireland, Castlepollard sits lower than 73% of Irish towns: 18%.
Only 0.3% of residents speak Irish daily outside education in Castlepollard
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 393 people here, nearly a third of residents aged 3 and over, can speak Irish. The highest share in Co. Westmeath belongs to Mullingar (0.9%). The usual figure: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
11% said they have no religion, fewer than in 89% 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: 83% of Castlepollard · Co. Westmeath’s towns 79% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns, against 83% in Castlepollard. On average, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
Unpaid carers make up 7% in Castlepollard, more than in 96% 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.
Here, a third of residents 15 and over are married. About 90 residents (7%) give regular unpaid care (Ireland’s towns 5.4%).
18% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 92% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Across Ireland’s towns, 9.7% of adults finished at primary level or earlier; in Castlepollard, 19%, and 4.8% hold a postgraduate qualification. Adults with a degree or higher: 36% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
Castlepollard is older than every town around it
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. Westmeath’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Westmeath has fewer than five towns of 2,500 or more, so its figure is the median of its towns of 1,000 or more; the national figure is the median of 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 Castlepollard’s residents
What is the population of Castlepollard?
Castlepollard had 1,349 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 12% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Castlepollard?
The median age is 39.3. 26% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Castlepollard?
32% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (393 people), and 0.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Castlepollard?
83% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 9.7% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Castlepollard?
82% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 7.1% another religion; 4.8% didn’t say.
Is Castlepollard good for families?
40% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Castlepollard are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Castlepollard?
Median gross household income in Castlepollard was €42,430 in 2022, against €57,430 across Co. Westmeath 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).