Photo: Upsilona · CC BY-SA 3.0A higher share of households of parents with children than 95% of Irish towns, at 57%
Across Ireland’s towns, 71% of residents said they are Catholic; in Coolboy, 81%. There were 91 households locally at the 2022 Census, home to 272 residents. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 1.1%. Households in flats are rarer here than in 98% of Irish towns.
Coolboy’s population moved +3% on 2016, less than in 79% 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 Co. Wicklow’s towns the median is +13%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
In Coolboy, 14% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 83% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 10–14 than any other five-year age: 13% of residents, 1.8 times the share across Ireland’s towns. The median age in Coolboy is 38.8, higher than in 64% of Irish towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Wicklow 50.8%, Ireland 51.2%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 0.4%, a lower share than 99% 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
By occupation, process, plant and machine operatives are over-represented: 18%, against a typical 7.8%. Elsewhere, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns. 13% of residents 15 and over are students.
3 people per household, more than in 90% 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.
With one-person households at 20%, Coolboy is behind 71% of Irish towns on that count.
Fewer households without a car or van than 97% of Irish towns: 4.5%
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
Broadband reaches 82% of households; 15% have no internet at all (typical: 7.6%). As a reference point, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes account for 1%.
Median gross household income: €57,970 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 €57,970 sits close to Ireland (€60,120). Across Co. Wicklow the median is €64,080.
Below 95% of Irish towns: 12% 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.
At home, 5.3% use another language, chiefly Polish (1.8%), and 0.4% speak English not well or not at all. Few places have so few residents with another country’s citizenship: 6.7% here, fewer than in 95% of Irish towns. For comparison, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
In Coolboy, Irish is spoken by 36% of residents
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
Within Co. Wicklow, Bray has the largest share, 1.4%. Daily speakers of Irish outside education are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
92% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 98% 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 Coolboy · Co. Wicklow’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Here 15% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 17%. Behind White Irish, the largest groups are Other White (6.7%), Other, including mixed (0.7%) and Irish Traveller (0.4%). The share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns is 78%.
Above 90% of Irish towns: 40% 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.
The share of unpaid carers tops 92% of Irish towns: 6.6%. The wider picture: 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Adults with a degree or higher: 23%, a lower share than 83% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A postgraduate qualification is the highest level for 4.7% of adults; primary level or less for 13% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The wider picture: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
3 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Coolboy
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 Coolboy’s residents
What is the population of Coolboy?
Coolboy had 272 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Coolboy?
The median age is 38.8. 31% are under 18 and 12% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Coolboy?
36% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (93 people), and 0% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Coolboy?
92% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 6.7% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Coolboy?
81% are Catholic, 15% have no religion and 4.2% another religion; 3.3% didn’t say.
Is Coolboy good for families?
57% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 31% of residents are under 18. Schools near Coolboy are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Coolboy?
Median gross household income in Coolboy was €57,970 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).