Religion — Cork County Council
360,152, latest 2022.
360,152 was the total. Catholic accounted for the largest share (267,744, 74%). Next largest was No religion (50,738).
What these terms mean
- Census year
- A year CSO actually carried out a full population count — 2016 and 2022 for this breakdown. Not published for any other year. Source
Before you use these figures
- 2016 and 2022 figures cover different areas: Cork County Council's boundary was reduced in 2019, losing a large area to the expanded Cork City. This series' 2016 figure covers the larger, pre-2019 county; its 2022 figure covers the smaller, post-2019 county. The change between them reflects the boundary redraw, not a real change in the population it describes — not a trend to compare year over year.
- Not available for this area: No figure is published at or above Cork.
- Census years only, not a continuous series: This is CSO's actual Census of Population count, taken once every five years (2016, 2022 for this breakdown) — not a modelled annual estimate. No figure is published for any year in between, and this will not update again until the next census.
- Latest figure: 2022 — 4 years old: This dataset is published annually and the publisher hasn't released anything newer. Nothing is missing from this page.
- Not adjusted for population, 2016: This area's 2016 figure was 342,426, well outside the typical range for other areas that reported for 2016 (median about 101,155 across 30 other areas). This figure is a raw count, not adjusted for population — a larger area is expected to report a larger number regardless of anything unusual happening there. Not itself a sign of a data problem.
Cite this figure:
Religion 360,152 for Cork County Council (not the same area as Cork), 2022 Caveats: 2016 and 2022 figures cover different areas; Not available for this area; Census years only, not a continuous series; Latest figure: 2022 — 4 years old; Not adjusted for population, 2016 StatsMapped last checked this figure against the publisher's own data file on 15 Sep 2026. Source: CSO Census of Population — Small Area Population Statistics (religion, ethnicity, travel to work, residence a year ago) https://statsmapped.com/ireland/county/cork/census-religion-cork-county-council