Editing County Cork (section)

==Demographics==
{| class="wikitable floatright plainrowheaders" style="max-width:20%;"
|+Leading population centres
|-
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | City or town
! scope="col" | Population (2022)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://data.cso.ie/ |title=Census 2022 Profile 1 - Population Distribution and Movement F1015 - Population |publisher=Central Statistics Office |access-date=28 October 2023 |archive-date=25 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825074214/https://data.cso.ie/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1 
! scope="row" | [[Cork (city)|Cork]] 
| 224,004
|-
| 2 
! scope="row" | [[Carrigaline]] 
| 18,239
|-
| 3 
! scope="row" | [[Cobh]] 
| 14,148
|-
| 4 
! scope="row" | [[Midleton]] 
| 13,906
|-
| 5 
! scope="row" | [[Mallow, County Cork|Mallow]] 
| 13,456
|-
| 6 
! scope="row" | [[Youghal]] 
| 8,564
|-
| 7 
! scope="row" | [[Bandon, County Cork|Bandon]] 
| 8,196
|-
| 8 
! scope="row" | [[Fermoy]] 
| 6,720
|-
| 9 
! scope="row" | [[Passage West]]-[[Monkstown, County Cork|Monkstown]] 
| 6,051
|-
| 10 
! scope="row" | [[Kinsale]] 
| 5,991
|}
{{Main|List of towns and villages in County Cork}}
The city of [[Cork (city)|Cork]] forms the largest urban area in the county, with a total population of 224,004 as of 2022. Cork is the [[List of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland|second-most populous city]] in the Republic of Ireland, and the third-most populous city on the island of [[Ireland]]. According to 2022 census statistics, the county has 13 towns with a population of over 4,000. The county has a population density of {{convert|77.8|PD/km2}}. A large percentage of the population lives in urban areas.

In the 1841 census, before the outbreak of the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]], County Cork had a recorded population of 854,118.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 May 2018 |title=Brutality of Cork's Famine years: 'I saw hovels crowded with the sick and the dying in every doorway' |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20470367.html |access-date=12 September 2022 |website=Irish Examiner |language=en |archive-date=12 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912151506/https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20470367.html |url-status=live }}</ref> By the [[2022 census of Ireland|2022 census]], Cork city and county had a combined population of 584,156 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-40902230.html |title=Census 2022: Cork population increases by 7.1% |website=echolive.ie |date=23 June 2022 |access-date=12 September 2022 |archive-date=12 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912153225/https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-40902230.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

As of the 2022 census, ethnically the population included 78.5% White Irish people, 9.9% other White background, 1.4% Asian and 1.1% Black. In 2022, the largest religious denominations in Cork were: Catholicism (71%), Church of Ireland (2.3%), Orthodox (1.2%), and Islam (1.2%). Those stating that they had no religion accounted for 15.7% of the population in 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cso.ie/en/csolatestnews/pressreleases/2023pressreleases/pressstatementcensus2022resultsprofile5-diversitymigrationethnicityirishtravellersreligioncork/ |title=Profile 5 Diversity, Migration, Ethnicity, Irish Travellers & Religion Cork |publisher=Central Statistics Office |work=Census 2022 |date=26 October 2023 |access-date=28 October 2023 |archive-date=28 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028174904/https://www.cso.ie/en/csolatestnews/pressreleases/2023pressreleases/pressstatementcensus2022resultsprofile5-diversitymigrationethnicityirishtravellersreligioncork/ |url-status=live }}</ref>