Photo: Sebb · Public domainHouseholds in flats make up 1.7% in Rochfortbridge, less than in 98% of Irish towns
71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns, against 84% in Rochfortbridge. This Co. Westmeath town had 1,498 residents in 516 households at the 2022 Census, with a median age of 38.2. On the census count, 2.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. Residents aged 15 to 24 are more common here than in 81% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Rochfortbridge
A town of families
36% of households are couples with children and 17% lone parents with children, more than in 87% of Irish towns; 21% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
From 2016 to 2022, 79% of Irish towns grew faster than Rochfortbridge: +3%
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.
For comparison, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +11% across Co. Westmeath’s towns.
Older than 57% of Irish towns: half of Rochfortbridge is over 38.2
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 10–14: nearly one in ten residents. In Castlepollard, the oldest of Co. Westmeath’s towns by this measure, it is 17%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Westmeath 50.8%, Ireland 51.2%.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 88% of Irish towns, at 4.7%
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
Across Ireland’s towns, just over a third of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Rochfortbridge, 26% and 18%. Set beside that, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Rochfortbridge: 53% of households are parents with children, above 87% 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.
The typical household size is 2.9 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns. In Rochfortbridge, 21% of households are one person living alone.
Households without a car or van: 10%, a lower share than 75% 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 rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. Across the comparison, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
A median household income of €53,790 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 €53,790 gross, 11% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). For Co. Westmeath as a whole, the figure is €57,430.
Below 96% of Irish towns: 11% of residents were born outside Ireland
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.
8% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (1.3%); 1.4% speak English not well or not at all. The benchmark for residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns: 22%. Rochfortbridge has fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than 97% of Irish towns, at 5.9%.
A lower share of daily speakers of Irish outside education than 96% of Irish towns, at 0.5%
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, 489 residents aged 3 and over (37%) can speak Irish. As a reference point, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Rochfortbridge ranks above 97% of Irish towns on residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 90%
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: 90% of Rochfortbridge · Co. Westmeath’s towns 79% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White Irish are Other White (5.2%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.2%) and Black or Black Irish (1.5%). Elsewhere, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. Just over one in ten residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 89% of Irish towns.
More married residents 15 and over than 54% of Irish towns: 35%
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.
For Rochfortbridge, the census puts unpaid carers at 5.5%. 55% of the town’s residents 15 and over are single and 35% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
19% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, below 90% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Rochfortbridge’s adults, 5.4% went on to postgraduate study and 11% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Adults with a degree or higher: 36% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
No nearby town is as old as Rochfortbridge
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 Rochfortbridge’s residents
What is the population of Rochfortbridge?
Rochfortbridge had 1,498 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Rochfortbridge?
The median age is 38.2. 26% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Rochfortbridge?
37% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (489 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Rochfortbridge?
90% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 11% were born abroad and 5.9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Rochfortbridge?
84% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 5.5% another religion; 7.1% didn’t say.
Is Rochfortbridge good for families?
53% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Rochfortbridge are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Rochfortbridge?
Median gross household income in Rochfortbridge was €53,790 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).