Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domain0.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 99% of Irish towns
Households of parents with children: 55% here and 43% across Ireland’s towns. Across Glenealy, 4.9% of households have no car or van. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish are more common here than in 96% of Irish towns. The town is home to 623 residents in 213 households, by the 2022 Census.
Glenealy changed by +5% from 2016 to 2022, slower than 66% 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%.
Glenealy is older than 81% of Irish towns: a median age of 40.5
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
10–14 is the most common age band: one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across Ireland’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 are more common here than in 78% of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Co. Wicklow 50.8%, Ireland 51.2%.
13% of residents 15 and over are students, more than in 84% 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
Compared with a typical 7.8%, managers, directors and senior officials account for 16% of workers. Elsewhere, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. In Glenealy, 5.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
3 people per household, more than in 85% 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.
By its share of one-person households (21%), Glenealy is below 66% of Irish towns.
A lower share of households in flats than 97% of Irish towns, at 1.9%
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: 89% on broadband; 8.1% offline (typical: 7.6%). Typically, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns. Holiday homes account for 0.9%.
Median household income: €63,440 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 €63,440 gross, 6% more than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Wicklow’s median household income is €64,080.
A smaller share of residents with another country’s citizenship than 95% of Irish towns: 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.
The figure for residents born outside Ireland is 15% in Glenealy and 22% across Ireland’s towns. At home, 5.1% use another language, chiefly Polish (0.6%), and 0.8% speak English not well or not at all.
42% of Glenealy 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 about as common here as across Ireland’s towns, at 1.4%. The ability to speak Irish extends to 243 residents (42% of those aged 3 and over).
More residents with no religion than 56% of Irish towns: 18%
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 Glenealy · Co. Wicklow’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White Irish: Other White (9.2%), Asian or Asian Irish (1%) and Other, including mixed (0.5%). Glenealy has fewer residents who said they are Catholic than 55% of Irish towns, at 70%. For comparison, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns.
Unpaid carers: 7.9%, a higher share than 99% 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.
Just over a third of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns, against 36% in Glenealy. Across the comparison, 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of adults with a degree or higher than 51% of Irish towns, at 35%
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 just over one in ten adults here, while 9.7% stopped at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). Set beside that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Around Glenealy, 1 of 6 towns have a higher median age
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 Glenealy’s residents
What is the population of Glenealy?
Glenealy had 623 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Glenealy?
The median age is 40.5. 29% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Glenealy?
42% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (243 people), and 1.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Glenealy?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 7% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Glenealy?
70% are Catholic, 18% have no religion and 11% another religion; 2.4% didn’t say.
Is Glenealy good for families?
55% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 29% of residents are under 18. Schools near Glenealy are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Glenealy?
Median gross household income in Glenealy was €63,440 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).