Population — Cork
584,156, latest 2022.
584,156 was the total.
What these terms mean
- Census year
- A year CSO actually carried out a full population count -- 2011, 2016 and 2022 for this series. Not published for any other year. Source
- Local authority
- The 31 city and county councils -- the same administrative areas this site's other per-council datasets (planning permissions, tender awards, local authority budgets) are published for.
Before you use these figures
- Unusually high compared with other areas: This figure is unusually high compared with other areas currently publishing this dataset — 584,156 against a typical figure (median) of about 132,954 across 54 other areas. Worth checking against the source before treating it as a straightforward comparison.
- Unusually high in 2016: This area's 2016 figure is unusually high compared with what other areas reported for 2016 — 542,868 against a typical figure (median) of about 123,850 across 54 other areas that period. No longer this dataset's latest period, so a look at just today's headline figure would not have caught it -- flagged here from a check across the dataset's full history. Worth checking against the source before treating it as a straightforward trend.
- Census years only, not a continuous series: This is CSO's actual Census of Population count, taken once every five years (2011, 2016, 2022) -- not a modelled annual estimate. A figure from a year between censuses is not published here at all; the 'latest' point can be several years old.
- Cork City and Cork County not published separately: CSO publishes one combined population figure for Cork City and Cork County across all three census years -- the city boundary was extended in 2019, so a clean pre/post split back to a comparable historical baseline does not exist. No population figure is shown for either council rather than estimating a split CSO itself declined to publish.
- Latest figure 2022: This series is annual; the most recent published figure is 2022, 4 years before 2026. That may reflect the publisher's release schedule rather than missing data.
Cite this figure:
Population — Cork 584,156 for Cork, 2022 StatsMapped last confirmed this figure on 4 Sep 2026. Source: CSO FY006B -- Population by County and City, 2011-2022, via statsmapped.com https://statsmapped.com/ireland/county/cork/population_cork