Photo: Simon Mortimer · CC BY-SA 2.0Barndarrig ranks below 93% of Irish towns on households without a car or van: 6%
The share of residents who said they are Catholic is 81%, against 71% across Ireland’s towns. In 2022, the Census found 253 residents in Barndarrig, living in 86 households. 15% of residents are aged 15 to 24. More households of parents with children than in 87% of Irish towns: 54%.
Slower than most: +6% since 2016, behind 60% 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. Wicklow’s towns, +13%.
A lower share of residents aged 65 and over than 71% of Irish towns, at 11%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The median age in Barndarrig is 38.2, higher than in 57% of Irish towns. To put it in context, 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns. In Bray, the oldest of Co. Wicklow’s towns by this measure, it is 16%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Wicklow 50.8%, Ireland 51.2%.
17% of residents 15 and over are students, a share 95% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
Just over a third of Barndarrig’s residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 4.8%.
In Barndarrig, 16% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 84% 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.
A household here has 3 people on average; across Ireland’s towns, 2.7. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Set beside that, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
A holiday town: 2.2% of homes are holiday homes
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 in flats are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of holiday homes is 0.2%.
Median household income: €65,160 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
A median gross household income of €65,160 sits 8% above Ireland (€60,120). In Co. Wicklow overall, the median comes to €64,080.
7.3% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 93% 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.
4.8% speak another language at home, most often Polish (2%); 0.8% speak English not well or not at all. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with another country’s citizenship is 15%. On residents born outside Ireland, Barndarrig sits lower than 88% of Irish towns: 14%.
Below 99% of Irish towns: 0.4% of residents speak Irish daily outside education
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
No town in Co. Wicklow beats Bray (1.4%). The benchmark for daily speakers of Irish outside education across Ireland’s towns: 1.1%.
89% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 96% 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 Barndarrig · Co. Wicklow’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 12% here and 17% across Ireland’s towns. The usual figure: 78% of residents describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns.
Barndarrig: 36% of residents 15 and over are married, above 61% 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: 5.9%, near enough the figure across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Barndarrig sits below 78% of Irish towns for adults with a degree or higher (25%)
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Still in education: 22% of residents 15 and over. The wider picture: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Postgraduate qualifications are held by 6.8% of adults here, while 9.6% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns).
4 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Barndarrig
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 Barndarrig’s residents
What is the population of Barndarrig?
Barndarrig had 253 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Barndarrig?
The median age is 38.2. 32% are under 18 and 11% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Barndarrig?
41% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (99 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Barndarrig?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 14% were born abroad and 7.3% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Barndarrig?
81% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 7% another religion; 4% didn’t say.
Is Barndarrig good for families?
54% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 32% of residents are under 18. Schools near Barndarrig are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Barndarrig?
Median gross household income in Barndarrig was €65,160 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).