Photo: Jonathan Billinger · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 91% of Irish towns: half of Coolgreany is over 42.3
Flats are home to 2% of households, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. Coolgreany had 395 residents in 148 households at the 2022 Census. In Coolgreany, 1.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. 92% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, a higher share than in 98% of Irish towns.
Coolgreany’s population moved +4% on 2016, less than in 72% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +11% across Co. Wexford’s towns.
Coolgreany sits above 95% of Irish towns for residents aged 65 and over (23%)
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
40–44 is the most common age band: 11% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 87 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.
Students among residents 15 and over make up 8.9% in Coolgreany, less than in 79% of Irish towns
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 third of Coolgreany’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. In Coolgreany, 6.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
29% of households are one person living alone, a share 77% of Irish towns don’t reach
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.
Households average 2.7 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns. The share of households of parents with children stands at 41%.
In Coolgreany, 10% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 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 Ireland’s towns, 17% of households have no car or van. 16% of households have no internet access (typical: 7.6%); 79% have broadband.
€56,530 a year is the median household income here
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€56,530 a year before tax puts the median household 6% below Ireland (€60,120). Co. Wexford comes in at €51,440 at the median.
11% of residents were born outside Ireland, below 96% 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.
6.5% speak a language other than English at home, French most of all (1%); 1.3% speak English not well or not at all. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents born outside Ireland is 22%. Compared with other places, residents with another country’s citizenship are scarce here: 4.6%, fewer than in 98% of Irish towns.
Daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.3%, a lower share than 99% 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
Speakers of Irish: 131 residents, 35% of those aged 3 and over. Elsewhere, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns. In Co. Wexford, Gorey has the highest share (0.9%).
A higher share of residents who said they are Catholic than 79% of Irish towns, at 77%
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: 92% of Coolgreany · Co. Wexford’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
After White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (6.8%), Asian or Asian Irish (0.5%) and Other, including mixed (0.3%). Measured more widely, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. 16% of residents said they have no religion; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 17%.
Coolgreany sits above 84% of Irish towns for married residents 15 and over (39%)
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.
5.3% of residents give unpaid care. Against that, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Coolgreany sits below 82% of Irish towns for adults with a degree or higher (23%)
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
9.1% of Coolgreany’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 16% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). As a reference point, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Coolgreany 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. 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 Coolgreany’s residents
What is the population of Coolgreany?
Coolgreany had 395 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Coolgreany?
The median age is 42.3. 25% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Coolgreany?
35% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (131 people), and 0.3% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Coolgreany?
92% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 11% were born abroad and 4.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Coolgreany?
77% are Catholic, 16% have no religion and 7.1% another religion; 3.8% didn’t say.
Is Coolgreany good for families?
41% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Coolgreany are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Coolgreany?
Median gross household income in Coolgreany was €56,530 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).