Photo: Sarah777 · Public domainA median age of 44.3: Multyfarnham is older than 97% of Irish towns
71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns, against 81% in Multyfarnham. The town’s 158 households held 460 residents at the 2022 Census. On the census count, 4.4% of households live in a flat or apartment. At 27%, the share of one-person households is higher than in 67% of Irish towns.
A +4% change since 2016: slower 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 +11% across Co. Westmeath’s towns.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 98% of Irish towns, at 25%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 35–39: 8.5% of residents. Compared with other places, residents aged 15 to 24 are scarce here: 6.7%, fewer than in 99% of Irish towns. As a yardstick, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 82 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.
Below 99% of Irish towns: 5.9% of residents 15 and over are students
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
Among the working population, professional occupations make up 27%, against a typical 21%. Residents who moved in within the year account for 5.1%. As a yardstick, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
2.5 people per household, fewer than in 71% of Irish towns
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.
Little separates the share of shared households of unrelated adults here, 3.8%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 42% of households are parents with children.
1.7% of homes are holiday homes, more than in 91% 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
Broadband reaches 90% of households; 8.8% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). Across Ireland’s towns, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes. Households without a car or van: just over a tenth of the total.
The middle household earns €60,820 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 €60,820 gross, about the Ireland median (€60,120). Across Co. Westmeath, the middle household has €57,430.
Residents with another country’s citizenship make up 7.1% in Multyfarnham, less than in 94% 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.
Against a figure of 22% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents born outside Ireland in Multyfarnham comes in at 16%. At home, 12% use another language, chiefly Polish (1.5%), and 1.5% speak English not well or not at all. Across Ireland’s towns, 15% of residents are citizens of another country.
Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.5%, a lower share than 96% 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
In all, 176 residents aged 3 and over (42%) can speak Irish. To put it in context, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
87% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 85% 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: 87% of Multyfarnham · Co. Westmeath’s towns 79% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (7.3%), Asian or Asian Irish (3%) and Other, including mixed (1.8%). Across Ireland’s towns, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. Few places have so few residents with no religion: 12% here, fewer than in 85% of Irish towns.
37% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 74% 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.
At 5.9%, unpaid carers sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Multyfarnham ranks above 60% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 41%
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 just over one in ten adults here, while 15% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
No nearby town is as old as Multyfarnham
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multyfarnham | 460 | — | 44.3 | 25% | 42% |
| Castlepollard | 1,349 | 9.1 km | 39.3 | 17% | 40% |
| Mullingar | 22,667 | 11.6 km | 36.7 | 13% | 45% |
| Edgeworthstown | 2,199 | 16.6 km | 35.8 | 11% | 43% |
| Granard | 1,058 | 18.5 km | 36.5 | 15% | 37% |
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 Multyfarnham’s residents
What is the population of Multyfarnham?
Multyfarnham had 460 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Multyfarnham?
The median age is 44.3. 22% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Multyfarnham?
42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (176 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Multyfarnham?
87% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 7.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Multyfarnham?
81% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 7.2% another religion; 3.7% didn’t say.
Is Multyfarnham good for families?
42% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 22% of residents are under 18. Schools near Multyfarnham are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Multyfarnham?
Median gross household income in Multyfarnham was €60,820 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).