Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainKillinierin sits below 97% of Irish towns for households without a car or van (4.5%)
Where 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns, Killinierin has 13%. Fewer shared households of unrelated adults than in 93% of Irish towns: 2.2%. In 2022, the Census found 270 residents here, living in 92 households. The census found that nearly nine in ten residents describe themselves as White Irish in the town.
Growth of +12% since 2016 puts Killinierin ahead of 74% 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.
For comparison, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +11% across Co. Wexford’s towns.
A median age of 37: Killinierin is younger than 58% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Compared with 14% across Ireland’s towns, 15% of residents are 65 or over here. In Wexford, the oldest of Co. Wexford’s towns by this measure, it is 17%.
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%.
12% of residents 15 and over are students, more than in 74% 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
In Killinierin, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in half of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 14%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Households of parents with children make up 53% in Killinierin, more than in 87% 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 Killinierin the average household is 3 people, beside 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
100% of homes are houses
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
No internet at all: 5.7% (typical: 7.6%). Broadband: just over nine in ten households. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
€69,280 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.
At €69,280 a year before tax, the median household income is 15% above that of Ireland (€60,120). County median: €51,440 (Co. Wexford).
12% of residents were born outside Ireland, below 95% 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.
The largest groups were born in the UK (5.9%) and outside the EU and UK (3.7%). Few places have so few residents with another country’s citizenship: 7.6% here, fewer than in 90% of Irish towns. Typically, 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
38% of Killinierin can speak Irish
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 95 residents (38% of those aged 3 and over). Lower than in nearly three quarters of Irish towns: 0.8% of residents speak Irish daily outside education.
In Killinierin, 76% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 76% 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: 89% of Killinierin · Co. Wexford’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White Irish, the biggest groups are Other White (8.7%), Other, including mixed (1.1%) and Black or Black Irish (0.8%). Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 14%, fewer than in 71% of Irish towns.
More married residents 15 and over than 99% of Irish towns: 46%
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. Half of Killinierin’s residents 15 and over are single and 46% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
In Killinierin, 33% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 57% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate: one in ten adults. The usual figure: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Primary level or earlier: 9.1%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
A younger town than 5 of the 6 around it: Killinierin
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 Killinierin’s residents
What is the population of Killinierin?
Killinierin had 270 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 12% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Killinierin?
The median age is 37. 28% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Killinierin?
38% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (95 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Killinierin?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 7.6% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Killinierin?
76% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 10% another religion; 4.8% didn’t say.
Is Killinierin good for families?
53% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 28% of residents are under 18. Schools near Killinierin are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Killinierin?
Median gross household income in Killinierin was €69,280 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).