Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainHalf of Tyrrellspass is over 52.1, older than 99% of Irish towns
The share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish tops 96% of Irish towns: 90%. There were 172 households in Tyrrellspass at the 2022 Census, home to 480 residents. Here, a third of households are one person living alone. Compared with other places, households of parents with children are scarce here: 35%, fewer than in 78% of Irish towns.
+8% since 2016, a pace 53% of Irish towns didn’t match
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.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 34% in Tyrrellspass, more than in 99% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 85+: just over one in ten residents, 7.1 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Tyrrellspass, 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
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.
Tyrrellspass sits below 94% of Irish towns for students among residents 15 and over (7.9%)
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
Just over a fifth of Tyrrellspass’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 13% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 6.8% of the total.
Households here average 2.4 people, below 85% 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.
Here 3.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 4.7%.
In Tyrrellspass, 1.7% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 98% 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
16% of households have no car or van (Ireland’s towns: 17%). The usual figure: 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Locally, 1.5% of homes are holiday homes.
A median household income of €56,200 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Gross household income has a median of €56,200 a year here, 7% below Ireland (€60,120). Countywide, Co. Westmeath has a median of €57,430.
Only 10% of residents were born outside Ireland in Tyrrellspass
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.
Residents born abroad were most often born in the UK (4.8%), then outside the EU and UK (2.7%). Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents born outside Ireland is 22%. 8.1% of residents are citizens of another country, a lower share than in 87% of Irish towns.
Tyrrellspass ranks below 99% of Irish towns on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.3%
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
No town in Co. Westmeath beats Mullingar (0.9%). Across the comparison, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
11% of residents said they have no religion, below 92% 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: 90% of Tyrrellspass · Co. Westmeath’s towns 79% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White Irish, the main groups are Other White (7.5%), Other, including mixed (1.3%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.8%). 82% of residents said they are Catholic, a higher share than in 94% of Irish towns. To put it in context, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
6.9% of residents give unpaid care, 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.
Locally, just over a third of residents 15 and over are married. About 30 residents (6.9%) give regular unpaid care (Ireland’s towns 5.4%).
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 85% of Irish towns, at 22%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
At the top, 5.9% of adults have a postgraduate qualification; at the other end, 18% finished at primary level or earlier, against 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.
No nearby town is as old as Tyrrellspass
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 Tyrrellspass’s residents
What is the population of Tyrrellspass?
Tyrrellspass had 480 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Tyrrellspass?
The median age is 52.1. 15% are under 18 and 34% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Tyrrellspass?
42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (149 people), and 0.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Tyrrellspass?
90% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 10% were born abroad and 8.1% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Tyrrellspass?
82% are Catholic, 11% have no religion and 7.8% another religion; 23% didn’t say.
Is Tyrrellspass good for families?
35% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 15% of residents are under 18. Schools near Tyrrellspass are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Tyrrellspass?
Median gross household income in Tyrrellspass was €56,200 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).