Photo: Rogue29567 · CC BY-SA 4.0Tagoat sits below 99% of Irish towns for shared households of unrelated adults (0.5%)
Compared with 0.2% across Ireland’s towns, 4.5% of homes are holiday homes here. Tagoat had 507 residents in 192 households at the 2022 Census. For Tagoat, the census puts one-person households at 31%. Few places have as many residents who said they are Catholic: 75% here, more than in three quarters of Irish towns.
Tagoat’s population changed by +12% since 2016, more than in 75% 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.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 13% in Tagoat, more than in 64% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 35–39, with nearly one in ten residents. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. With a median age of 37.7, Tagoat is older than 51% 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
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Wexford 51.3%, Ireland 51.2%.
9.2% of residents 15 and over are students, below 75% 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
31% of Tagoat’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 21% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. For Tagoat, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 8.3%.
Tagoat: 46% of households are parents with children, above 67% 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.
At 2.6 people, the average household compares with 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
Below 88% of Irish towns: 7% 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
Connected households: 84% on broadband; 6.8% offline (typical: 7.6%). Households without a car or van make up 17% across Ireland’s towns.
€46,790 a year: the median household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€46,790 a year before tax puts the median household 22% below Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Wexford, the middle household has €51,440.
Below 71% of Irish towns: 18% of residents were born outside Ireland
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.
14% speak another language at home, most often Polish (3.4%); 1.4% speak English not well or not at all. Across the comparison, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns. Few places have so few residents with another country’s citizenship: 12% here, fewer than in 68% of Irish towns.
31% of Tagoat 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
Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Irish speakers number 144, or 31% of residents aged 3 and over.
A higher White Irish share than 68% of Irish towns: 83% of residents
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: 83% of Tagoat · Co. Wexford’s towns 78% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (15%), Other, including mixed (1.4%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1%). For comparison, 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns. Against a figure of 17% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with no religion in Tagoat comes in at 18%.
Below 66% of Irish towns: 33% of residents 15 and over are 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.
Here, 5.3% of residents give unpaid care. 53% of Tagoat’s residents 15 and over are single and 33% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
Tagoat sits below 83% 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
5.9% of Tagoat’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 16% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The comparison figure for adults with a degree or higher is 36% across Ireland’s towns.
Every nearby town is older than Tagoat
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tagoat | 507 | — | 37.7 | 15% | 46% |
| Rosslare | 1,795 | 2.9 km | 45.2 | 24% | 36% |
| Rosslare Harbour | 2,247 | 3.0 km | 42.3 | 19% | 38% |
| Wexford | 21,524 | 11.5 km | 40.6 | 17% | 40% |
| Castlebridge | 1,850 | 16.3 km | 40.1 | 14% | 46% |
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 Tagoat’s residents
What is the population of Tagoat?
Tagoat had 507 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 12% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Tagoat?
The median age is 37.7. 28% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Tagoat?
31% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (144 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Tagoat?
83% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 12% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Tagoat?
75% are Catholic, 18% have no religion and 6.4% another religion; 4.5% didn’t say.
Is Tagoat good for families?
46% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 28% of residents are under 18. Schools near Tagoat are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Tagoat?
Median gross household income in Tagoat was €46,790 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).