Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0Laragh is older than 95% of Irish towns: a median age of 43.6
With holiday homes at 3.4%, Laragh is ahead of 93% of Irish towns on that count. At the 2022 Census Laragh was home to 445 people in 155 households. Here, 1.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. Residents who describe themselves as White Irish are more common here than in 98% of Irish towns.
+4% since 2016, a pace below 76% 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.
Elsewhere, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +13% across Co. Wicklow’s towns.
9.4% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 97% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 45–49: 9.2% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Ireland’s towns. For Laragh, the census puts residents aged 65 and over at 14%. Set beside that, 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 make up 5.1% in Laragh, less than in 85% 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
Work here tilts toward skilled trades, at 19% against a typical 11%. Census figures put students among residents 15 and over at 8.5% in Laragh. Elsewhere, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
In Laragh, 22% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 60% 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.
Households in Laragh hold 2.7 people on average (Ireland’s towns: 2.7). The share of households of parents with children stands at 44%. Across Ireland’s towns, 24% of households are one person living alone.
Few flats: only 1.9% of households in Laragh live in one
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
The share of households without a car or van trails nearly four fifths of Irish towns: 9.2%. The benchmark for households in flats across Ireland’s towns: 12%.
Median gross household income: €58,370 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €58,370 a year before tax, the median household income is near that of Ireland (€60,120). Countywide in Co. Wicklow, the median is €64,080.
A smaller share of residents born outside Ireland than 94% of Irish towns: 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.
Set against 15% across Ireland’s towns, 7.9% of residents are citizens of another country in Laragh. The comparison figure for residents born outside Ireland is 22% across Ireland’s towns. At home, 9.3% use another language, chiefly French (2%), and 1.1% speak English not well or not at all.
Daily speakers of Irish outside education make up 0.5% in Laragh, less than in 96% 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
The ability to speak Irish extends to 150 residents (36% of those aged 3 and over). Set beside that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Residents who said they are Catholic make up 64% in Laragh, less than in 74% 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: 91% of Laragh · Co. Wicklow’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents with no religion is 21%, against 17% across Ireland’s towns. Typically, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (6.5%), Other, including mixed (1.4%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.2%).
Laragh ranks above 70% of Irish towns on married residents 15 and over: 37%
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.
Where 5.4% of residents give unpaid care across Ireland’s towns, Laragh has 6.5%. Across the comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Laragh ranks below 60% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 32%
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 just over one in ten adults; primary level or less for 9.2% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). The usual figure: 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Every nearby town is younger than Laragh
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 Laragh’s residents
What is the population of Laragh?
Laragh had 445 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Laragh?
The median age is 43.6. 19% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Laragh?
36% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (150 people), and 0.5% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Laragh?
91% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 7.9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Laragh?
64% are Catholic, 21% have no religion and 15% another religion; 3.4% didn’t say.
Is Laragh good for families?
44% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 19% of residents are under 18. Schools near Laragh are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Laragh?
Median gross household income in Laragh was €58,370 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).