Photo: Tom Nolan · CC BY-SA 2.092% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, more than in 98% of Irish towns
The share of households in flats trails 90% of Irish towns: 4.3%. More one-person households than in 76% of Irish towns: 29%. In 2022, the Census found 1,037 residents in Tinahely, living in 396 households. For Tinahely, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 2.5%.
What stands out about the people of Tinahely
Many carers
About 70 residents (7.1%) give regular unpaid care, more than in 96% of Irish towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A +9% change since 2016: faster than 55% 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.
For comparison, the median is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +13% across Co. Wicklow’s towns.
A median age of 40.3: Tinahely is older than 79% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Little separates the share of residents aged 15 to 24 here, 12%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. Few places have as many residents aged 65 and over: 17% here, more than in 71% of Irish towns. More residents are 40–44 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Wicklow 50.8%, Ireland 51.2%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Below 82% of Irish towns: 5.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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
In Tinahely, the professional, managerial and technical classes take in 28% of residents and the semi-skilled and unskilled classes 22%, against 34% and 15% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
45% of households are parents with children, more than in 63% 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 Tinahely hold 2.6 people on average (Ireland’s towns: 2.7). For comparison, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
Tinahely ranks below 75% of Irish towns on households without a car or van: 9.9%
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
1.6% of homes are holiday homes, against 0.2% across Ireland’s towns. Measured more widely, 17% of households have no car or van across Ireland’s towns.
Median gross household income: €48,710 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
At €48,710 a year before tax, the median household income is 19% under that of Ireland (€60,120). Countywide, Co. Wicklow has a median of €64,080.
Residents born outside Ireland make up 12% in Tinahely, less than in 96% 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.
The most common home language after English is Polish (2%); in all 6.9% speak another language, and 0.9% speak English not well or not at all. 7.4% of residents are citizens of another country, a lower share than in 91% of Irish towns. As a yardstick, just over a fifth of residents were born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns.
Of Tinahely’s residents, 37% 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
Speakers of Irish: 346 residents, 37% of those aged 3 and over. 1.2% of residents speak Irish daily outside education, a higher share than in 59% of Irish towns.
Tinahely ranks above 75% of Irish towns on residents who said they are Catholic: 76%
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 Tinahely · Co. Wicklow’s towns 83% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
With residents with no religion at 15%, Tinahely is behind 62% of Irish towns on that count. The next-largest groups, after White Irish, are Other White (5.7%), Other, including mixed (1.9%) and Asian or Asian Irish (0.5%). Across the comparison, 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns.
A higher share of unpaid carers than 96% of Irish towns, at 7.1%
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.
Set against 34% across Ireland’s towns, 32% of residents 15 and over are married in Tinahely. Across Ireland’s towns, unpaid carers come to 5.4%.
Adults with a degree or higher: 22%, a lower share than 84% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
6.1% of Tinahely’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 14% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Set beside that, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
1 in 5 nearby towns have a higher median age than Tinahely
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 Tinahely’s residents
What is the population of Tinahely?
Tinahely had 1,037 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Tinahely?
The median age is 40.3. 28% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Tinahely?
37% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (346 people), and 1.2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Tinahely?
92% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 12% were born abroad and 7.4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Tinahely?
76% are Catholic, 15% have no religion and 9.2% another religion; 6.1% didn’t say.
Is Tinahely good for families?
45% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 28% of residents are under 18. Schools near Tinahely are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Tinahely?
Median gross household income in Tinahely was €48,710 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).