Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Taghmon is younger than 90% of Irish towns: a median age of 33.5
The figure for residents with no religion is 7.9% in Taghmon and 17% across Ireland’s towns. There were 281 households here at the 2022 Census, home to 740 residents. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 9.3%. On households in flats, Taghmon sits lower than 73% of Irish towns: 8.2%.
A +17% change since 2016: faster than 84% 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.
Across Ireland’s towns the median change is +8%; across Co. Wexford’s towns, +11%.
Below 67% of Irish towns: 12% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 10–14: nearly one in ten residents. 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24, a higher share than in 73% of Irish towns. 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
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Wexford 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
Below 94% of Irish towns: 4.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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
One in ten residents 15 and over are students, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 7.5%.
A higher share of one-person households than 69% of Irish towns, at 28%
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.
At 2.6 people, the average household compares with 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of one-person households is 24%. Households of parents with children: 44% of the total.
Above 65% of Irish towns: 21% of households have no car or van
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: 69% have broadband, and 20% have no internet (typical: 7.6%). Elsewhere, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Here, 0.3% of homes are holiday homes.
Household income, middle of the range: €40,800 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€40,800 a year before tax puts the median household 32% below Ireland (€60,120). Co. Wexford’s median household income is €51,440.
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.
At home, 9.4% use another language, chiefly Polish (4.6%), and 1.9% speak English not well or not at all. On residents with another country’s citizenship, Taghmon sits lower than nearly three quarters of Irish towns: 11%. The wider picture: 22% of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
In Taghmon, 0.6% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, fewer than in 90% 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
Gorey leads Co. Wexford with 0.9%. Measured more widely, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Taghmon: 87% of residents said they are Catholic, above 99% 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: 72% of Taghmon · Co. Wexford’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
72% of residents describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%). Residents who said they are Catholic: 71% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. The groups that follow White Irish are Irish Traveller (17%), Other White (9.3%) and Other, including mixed (1.2%).
26% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 91% of Irish towns
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 make up 4.2% of residents, against 5.4% across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher: 8.8%, a lower share than 99% of Irish towns
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: 28%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher. Postgraduate: 1.3% of adults.
Taghmon is younger than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taghmon | 740 | — | 33.5 | 12% | 44% |
| Wexford | 21,524 | 12.1 km | 40.6 | 17% | 40% |
| Castlebridge | 1,850 | 15.6 km | 40.1 | 14% | 46% |
| Rosslare | 1,795 | 18.8 km | 45.2 | 24% | 36% |
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 Taghmon’s residents
What is the population of Taghmon?
Taghmon had 740 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 17% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Taghmon?
The median age is 33.5. 29% are under 18 and 12% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Taghmon?
27% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (169 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Taghmon?
72% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Taghmon?
87% are Catholic, 7.9% have no religion and 5.3% another religion; 13% didn’t say.
Is Taghmon good for families?
44% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 29% of residents are under 18. Schools near Taghmon are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Taghmon?
Median gross household income in Taghmon was €40,800 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).