Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainA median age of 44.6: Camolin is older than 98% of Irish towns
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Camolin is home to 470 residents in 154 households, by the 2022 Census. Census figures put households in flats at 1.9% here. Here nine in ten residents describe themselves as White Irish, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 78%.
Camolin grew +8% from 2016 to 2022, faster than 54% 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.
More residents aged 65 and over than 94% of Irish towns: 22%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Where just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns, Camolin has 15%. Across the comparison, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Wexford 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
A lower share of students among residents 15 and over than 97% of Irish towns, at 7.7%
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
In Camolin, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 27% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 20%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. 6.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 72% of Irish towns.
47% of households are parents with children, more than in 70% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Wexford’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
In Camolin the average household is 2.8 people, beside 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. One-person households: nearly a quarter of the total. Typically, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of holiday homes than 88% of Irish towns: 1.2%
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 figure for households without a car or van is 16% in Camolin and 17% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of holiday homes is 0.2%.
€57,790 a year: the median household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Camolin’s households have a gross income above €57,790 a year and half below, close to the median for Ireland (€60,120). Countywide, Co. Wexford has a median of €51,440.
A smaller share of residents born outside Ireland than 93% of Irish towns: 13%
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.
Another language is spoken at home by 8.3%, most often Polish (1.3%); 1.1% speak English not well or not at all. Lower than in 90% of Irish towns: 7.5% of residents are citizens of another country. The share of residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns is 22%.
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
The ability to speak Irish extends to 122 residents (28% of those aged 3 and over). In Co. Wexford, Gorey has the highest share (0.9%). Across the comparison, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 97% of Irish towns, at 8.6%
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 Camolin · Co. Wexford’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 71% across Ireland’s towns, 84% of residents said they are Catholic in Camolin. The benchmark for residents with no religion across Ireland’s towns: 17%. After White Irish, the most common groups are Other White (4.4%), Asian or Asian Irish (4.4%) and Other, including mixed (0.7%).
Only 33% of residents 15 and over are married in Camolin
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 4.7%, the share of unpaid carers is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns. Typically, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 95% of Irish towns: 16%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Primary level or earlier: 20%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Postgraduate: 3.3% of adults. The comparison figure for adults with a degree or higher is 36% across Ireland’s towns.
Every nearby town is younger than Camolin
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. Wexford’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Wexford’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 Camolin’s residents
What is the population of Camolin?
Camolin had 470 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Camolin?
The median age is 44.6. 18% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Camolin?
28% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (122 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Camolin?
90% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 13% were born abroad and 7.5% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Camolin?
84% are Catholic, 8.6% have no religion and 7.7% another religion; 3% didn’t say.
Is Camolin good for families?
47% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 18% of residents are under 18. Schools near Camolin are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Camolin?
Median gross household income in Camolin was €57,790 in 2022, against €51,440 across Co. Wexford 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).