Photo: Simon Mortimer · CC BY-SA 2.0More holiday homes than 99% of Irish towns: 22%
Half of Courtown’s residents are over 39.9, older than in 78% of Irish towns. The share of residents with no religion stands at 20%. At the 2022 Census, 4,365 people lived locally, in 1,670 households. Households average 2.6 people, against 2.7 across Ireland’s towns.
What stands out about the people of Courtown
One home in 5 is a holiday home
About 510 of 2,370 homes were empty holiday homes on Census night (22%), more than in 99% of Irish towns; 5.9% were vacant. Homes & cars ↓
Growing faster than most
Courtown went from about 3,670 people in 2016 to 4,365 in 2022, +19%: faster growth than in 88% of Irish towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
Courtown grew +19% from 2016 to 2022, faster than 88% 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.
Courtown sits below 71% of Irish towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (11%)
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 40–44, with nearly one in ten residents. Set beside that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. In Wexford, the oldest of Co. Wexford’s towns by this measure, it is 17%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Courtown, 39.9. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Wexford 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
Courtown ranks below 77% of Irish towns on students among residents 15 and over: 9.1%
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 Courtown, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 31% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 20%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Across Courtown, 7.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Above 62% of Irish towns: 26% of households are one person living alone
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 4.1%. One-person households: 24% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. In Courtown, 41% of households are parents with children.
Fewer flats than 87% of Irish towns: 5.2% of households
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
In Courtown, 9% of households have no car or van, beside 17% across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
€44,120 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.
The median household earns €44,120 gross, 27% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). County median: €51,440 (Co. Wexford).
22% of residents were born abroad
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.
19% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (5.9%); 1.9% speak English not well or not at all. Little separates the share of residents with another country’s citizenship here, 15%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of daily speakers of Irish outside education than 96% of Irish towns: 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 1,168 residents (30% of those aged 3 and over). For daily speakers of Irish outside education, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 1.1%.
68% of residents said they are Catholic, below 63% 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: 78% of Courtown · Co. Wexford’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (17%), Other, including mixed (1.9%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.7%). Elsewhere, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. At 78%, residents who describe themselves as White Irish sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns.
Half of adults have never married
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.
Unpaid carers account for 5.6%. Courtown sits close to the norm on married residents 15 and over: 34%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns.
22% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 84% 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 Courtown’s adults, 5.9% went on to postgraduate study and 13% 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.
Oldest by rank: 12th of 41 towns of 3,744 to 5,112 people
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Dangan is the youngest (27.5); Montenotte the oldest (46.5). Nearest to Courtown in age: Chapelizod (38.9), Birr (39.4), Glounthaune (40.1) and Clonakilty (40.5).
No nearby town is as old as Courtown
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 Courtown’s residents
What is the population of Courtown?
Courtown had 4,365 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 19% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Courtown?
The median age is 39.9, older than 78% of Irish towns. 25% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Courtown?
30% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,168 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Courtown?
78% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 22% were born abroad and 15% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Courtown?
68% are Catholic, 20% have no religion and 12% another religion; 7.4% didn’t say.
Is Courtown good for families?
41% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 25% of residents are under 18. Schools near Courtown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Courtown?
Median gross household income in Courtown was €44,120 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).