Photo: Sue Mischyshyn · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Avoca is over 43.2, older than 94% of Irish towns
Across Ireland’s towns, 4.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; in Avoca, 1.4%. In Avoca, 92% of residents describe themselves as White Irish. Households in flats are rarer here than in 98% of Irish towns. At the 2022 Census Avoca was home to 757 people in 288 households.
From 2016 to 2022, 82% of Irish towns grew faster than Avoca: +2%
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 +13% across Co. Wicklow’s towns.
14% of residents are aged 15 to 24, a share 81% of Irish towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 8.7% of residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns. The wider picture: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. For Avoca, the census puts residents aged 65 and over at 16%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Wicklow 50.8%, Ireland 51.2%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 5.5%, a lower share than 79% 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 Avoca, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 33% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 19%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Avoca sits above 73% of Irish towns for households of parents with children (48%)
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.
Each household has 2.7 people on average. Fewer one-person households than in 50% of Irish towns: 24%.
Holiday homes: 2.5%, a higher share than 92% of Irish towns
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: 13% (typical: 7.6%). Against that, 0.2% of homes are holiday homes across Ireland’s towns. Locally, just over one in ten households have no car or van.
Median gross household income: €59,560 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
The median household earns €59,560 gross, about the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Wicklow comes in at €64,080 at the median.
Avoca ranks below 96% of Irish towns on residents born outside Ireland: 12%
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.
Residents born abroad were most often born in the UK (4.9%), then outside the EU and UK (4%). For residents born outside Ireland, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 22%. 4.8% of residents are citizens of another country, a lower share than in 98% of Irish towns.
0.7% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, below 82% 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
Irish speakers number 244, or 35% of residents aged 3 and over. The wider picture: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns. In Co. Wicklow, Bray has the highest share (1.4%).
No religion: 21% of residents, a higher share than 69% 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: 92% of Avoca · Co. Wicklow’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (6.1%), Other, including mixed (1.4%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.6%). On residents who said they are Catholic, Avoca sits higher than just over half of Irish towns: 71%. Residents with no religion: 17% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison.
Avoca sits above 85% of Irish towns for married residents 15 and over (39%)
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.
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 6.3%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
27% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 74% 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 qualifications are held by 9.7% of adults here, while 13% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Measured more widely, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Every nearby town is younger than Avoca
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 Avoca’s residents
What is the population of Avoca?
Avoca had 757 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Avoca?
The median age is 43.2. 21% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Avoca?
35% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (244 people), and 0.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Avoca?
92% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 4.8% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Avoca?
71% are Catholic, 21% have no religion and 7.8% another religion; 4.9% didn’t say.
Is Avoca good for families?
48% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 21% of residents are under 18. Schools near Avoca are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Avoca?
Median gross household income in Avoca was €59,560 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).