Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0Above 94% of Irish towns: 3.8% of homes are holiday homes
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 2.1%, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. Nearly nine in ten residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 96% of Irish towns. At the 2022 Census Aughrim was home to 1,437 people in 527 households. Here, 22% of households are one person living alone.
What stands out about the people of Aughrim
Older than most towns
Half of Aughrim’s residents are under 41.7 and half over; the typical median across Irish towns is 37.6. 17% are 65 or over, against 14% across Ireland’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A change of +6% since 2016 leaves Aughrim behind 57% 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 typical town changed +8%; across Co. Wicklow’s towns, +13%.
Older than 88% of Irish towns: half of Aughrim is over 41.7
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Where 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns, Aughrim has 17%. Locally, 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Wicklow 50.8%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 3.9% in Aughrim, less than in 95% 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
Here just over one in ten residents 15 and over are students, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 10%. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 7.5%.
Aughrim households average 2.8 people, larger than in 63% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Wicklow’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
In Aughrim, 44% of households are parents with children, beside 43% across Ireland’s towns.
Below 98% of Irish towns: 0.9% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
Households without a car or van: 8.4% here and 17% across Ireland’s towns. On average, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
Median gross household income: €53,020 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€53,020 a year before tax puts the median household 12% below Ireland (€60,120). County median: €64,080 (Co. Wicklow).
A lower share of residents with another country’s citizenship than 95% of Irish towns, at 7%
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.
Against a figure of 22% across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents born outside Ireland in Aughrim comes in at 14%. Typically, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in the UK (7.2%) or outside the EU and UK (3.2%).
Able to speak Irish: 36% in Aughrim
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
On daily speakers of Irish outside education, 1.2% here is much the same as across Ireland’s towns. The ability to speak Irish extends to 498 residents (36% of those aged 3 and over). The highest share in Co. Wicklow belongs to Bray (1.4%).
75% of residents said they are Catholic, more than in 71% 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 Aughrim · Co. Wicklow’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Where 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns, Aughrim has 19%. Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (8.6%), Other, including mixed (1.2%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.7%).
A larger share of married residents 15 and over than 83% of Irish towns: 38%
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.
Aughrim has more unpaid carers than 50% of Irish towns, at 5.4%. For comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
In Aughrim, 28% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 69% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
8% of Aughrim’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 11% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Elsewhere, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Every nearby town is younger than Aughrim
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. Wicklow’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Wicklow’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 Aughrim’s residents
What is the population of Aughrim?
Aughrim had 1,437 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Aughrim?
The median age is 41.7. 27% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Aughrim?
36% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (498 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Aughrim?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 14% were born abroad and 7% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Aughrim?
75% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 6.7% another religion; 2.6% didn’t say.
Is Aughrim good for families?
44% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 27% of residents are under 18. Schools near Aughrim are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Aughrim?
Median gross household income in Aughrim was €53,020 in 2022, against €64,080 across Co. Wicklow 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).