Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0Gorey is younger than 66% of Irish towns: a median age of 36.4
The figure for households of parents with children is 46% in Gorey and 43% across Ireland’s towns. The town counted 11,517 residents and 4,151 households at the 2022 Census. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 3%. Higher than in 79% of Irish towns: 0.8% of homes are holiday homes.
A +16% change since 2016: faster than 83% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +11% across Co. Wexford’s towns.
12% of residents are 65 or over, below 63% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 13% here and 12% across Ireland’s towns. No age band is larger than 40–44: nearly one in ten residents. Typically, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Gorey, 36.4. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Wexford 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
30% of residents belong to the professional, managerial and technical classes
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
Workers here lean to skilled trades: 16%, against a typical 11%. Residents who moved in within the year: 6.9% of the total.
2.7 people per household, more than in 57% 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.
On the census count, 25% of households are one person living alone.
A lower share of households in flats than 63% of Irish towns, at 10%
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
Most homes are connected: 88% have broadband, and 9.2% have no internet (typical: 7.6%). Typically, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. 17% of households have no car or van.
€49,880 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.
Half of Gorey’s households have a gross income below €49,880 a year, 17% under the median for Ireland (€60,120). Co. Wexford as a whole has a median of €51,440.
In Gorey, 21% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 53% 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.
19% speak another language at home, most often Polish (6.5%); 2.6% speak English not well or not at all. The benchmark for residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns: 22%. Little separates the share of residents with another country’s citizenship here, 15%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns.
Irish: 35% of Gorey’s residents can speak it
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
Nothing unusual on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.9%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Irish speakers number 3,783, or just over a third of residents aged 3 and over. It is the highest share of Co. Wexford’s 5 towns of 2,500+.
A larger share of residents who said they are Catholic than 53% of Irish towns: 72%
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 Gorey · Co. Wexford’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White Irish come Other White (15%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.6%) and Other, including mixed (2.5%). Against that, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. At 17%, residents with no religion sit close to the figure across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of married residents 15 and over than 72% of Irish towns: 32%
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: 5.6% of the total. 58% of Gorey’s residents 15 and over are single and 32% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 75% of Irish towns: 26%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A postgraduate qualification is the highest level for 7.8% of adults; primary level or less for 11% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Measured more widely, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 9,831 to 13,456 people, the 14th youngest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Ages run from 30.5 in Summerhill to 44.7 in Foxrock. Nearest to Gorey in age: Cavan (36.1), Firhouse (36.3), Athy (36.6) and Sallynoggin (36.6).
Every neighbour of Gorey has an older population
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 Gorey’s residents
What is the population of Gorey?
Gorey had 11,517 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 16% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Gorey?
The median age is 36.4, younger than 66% of Irish towns. 27% are under 18 and 12% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Gorey?
35% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (3,783 people), and 0.9% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Gorey?
78% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 21% were born abroad and 15% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Gorey?
72% are Catholic, 17% have no religion and 11% another religion; 3.4% didn’t say.
Is Gorey good for families?
46% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 27% of residents are under 18. Schools near Gorey are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Gorey?
Median gross household income in Gorey was €49,880 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).