Photo: Simon Mortimer · CC BY-SA 2.058% of households are parents with children, a share 96% of Irish towns don’t reach
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 17%; Newtownmountkennedy has 9.1%. The town is home to 3,539 residents in 1,150 households, by the 2022 Census. The share of shared households of unrelated adults stands at 2.4%. The median age locally is 35.5, lower than in 76% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Newtownmountkennedy
A town of families
45% of households are couples with children and 13% lone parents with children, more than in 96% of Irish towns; 26% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A growing town: +17% since 2016, faster than 84% 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.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +13% across Co. Wicklow’s towns.
In Newtownmountkennedy, 10% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 76% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 40–44: one in ten residents. Lower than in 73% of Irish towns: 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24. The usual figure: 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%.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Newtownmountkennedy, 35.5. The typical town is 37.6.
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 4.4% in Newtownmountkennedy, less than in 92% 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
Nearly one in ten residents 15 and over are students, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. As a yardstick, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Ireland’s towns.
Newtownmountkennedy sits below 92% of Irish towns for one-person households (15%)
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 Newtownmountkennedy hold 3 people on average (Ireland’s towns: 2.7). By way of comparison, 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Only 9% of households live in a flat or apartment in Newtownmountkennedy
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: 91% of households. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households in flats is 12%. Holiday homes are rarer here than in 93% of Irish towns. No internet at all: 6.5% (typical: 7.6%).
Median household income: €66,000 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €66,000 a year before tax, the median household income is 10% above that of Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Wicklow as a whole, the figure is €64,080.
9% of residents are citizens of another country, fewer than in 82% 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.
16% speak a language other than English at home, Polish most of all (3.9%); 0.8% speak English not well or not at all. Newtownmountkennedy has fewer residents born outside Ireland than just over three quarters of Irish towns, at 17%. Across Ireland’s towns, residents with another country’s citizenship come to 15%.
Able to speak Irish: 35% in Newtownmountkennedy
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 1,118 residents (35% of those aged 3 and over). The highest share in Co. Wicklow belongs to Bray (1.4%). At 0.8%, the share of daily speakers of Irish outside education is in line with the figure across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 63% of Irish towns: 82%
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: 82% of Newtownmountkennedy · Co. Wicklow’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White Irish, most residents describe themselves as Other White (10%), Asian or Asian Irish (5.1%) and Other, including mixed (1.7%). The share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish across Ireland’s towns is 78%. Nearly a fifth of residents said they have no religion, against 17% across Ireland’s towns.
35% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 58% 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.
On unpaid carers, 5.1% here is much the same as across Ireland’s towns. Across the comparison, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer adults with a degree or higher than 58% of Irish towns: 32%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Newtownmountkennedy’s adults, 11% went on to postgraduate study and 11% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). On average, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
41 towns of 3,030 to 4,154 people: this is the 13th youngest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Taylor's Hill is the youngest (31.8); Montenotte the oldest (46.5). Nearest to Newtownmountkennedy in age: Lehenagh (35.1), Rahoon (35.2), Ballynanty (35.7) and Virginia (35.8).
Every nearby town is older than Newtownmountkennedy
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newtownmountkennedy | 3,539 | — | 35.5 | 10% | 58% |
| Kilpedder | 1,248 | 2.8 km | 43.1 | 18% | 51% |
| Newcastle | 1,010 | 3.6 km | 43.3 | 17% | 47% |
| Kilcoole | 4,569 | 4.1 km | 37.8 | 12% | 58% |
| Greystones-Delgany | 22,009 | 6.1 km | 39.4 | 14% | 51% |
| Ashford | 1,892 | 8.7 km | 38.6 | 15% | 50% |
| Kilmacanogue | 1,240 | 9.3 km | 43.1 | 18% | 45% |
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 Newtownmountkennedy’s residents
What is the population of Newtownmountkennedy?
Newtownmountkennedy had 3,539 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 17% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Newtownmountkennedy?
The median age is 35.5, younger than 76% of Irish towns. 30% are under 18 and 10% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Newtownmountkennedy?
35% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,118 people), and 0.8% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Newtownmountkennedy?
82% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 17% were born abroad and 9% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Newtownmountkennedy?
71% are Catholic, 19% have no religion and 11% another religion; 3.4% didn’t say.
Is Newtownmountkennedy good for families?
58% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Newtownmountkennedy are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Newtownmountkennedy?
Median gross household income in Newtownmountkennedy was €66,000 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).