Editing Mallow, County Cork (section)

==Demography==
{{Historical populations
|1821|4114
|1831|5229
|1841|6851
|1851|5439
|1861|4841
|1871|4165
|1881|4439
|1891|4366
|1901|4542
|1911|4452
|1926|4562
|1936|4948
|1946|5215
|1951|5583
|1956|5729
|1961|5649
|1966|5845
|1971|6506
|1981|7482
|1986|7685
|1991|7521
|1996|7768
|2002|8937
|2006|10241
|2011|11605
|2016|12459
|2022|13456
| footnote=<ref>[http://www.cso.ie/census Census for post 1821 figures.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309005718/http://www.cso.ie/census/ |date=9 March 2005 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.histpop.org |title=Histpop – The Online Historical Population Reports Website |website=histpop.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ |archive-date=7 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |title=Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency – Census Home Page |access-date=2016-11-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census/ |archive-date=17 February 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book
| last=Lee|first=J. J.| author-link=J. J. Lee (historian)|editor-last=Goldstrom|editor-first=J. M.|editor2-last=Clarkson
| editor2-first=L. A.|title=Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell
| year=1981|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford, England
| chapter=On the accuracy of the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Pre-famine]] Irish censuses}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Mokyr | first1 = Joel
| author-link = Joel Mokyr | last2 = O Grada | first2 = Cormac
| author2-link = Cormac Ó Gráda | title = New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850 | journal = The Economic History Review | volume = 37 | issue = 4
| pages = 473–488 |date=November 1984
| url = http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121204160709/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2012-12-04 | doi = 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x
| hdl = 10197/1406 | hdl-access = free }}</ref><ref name="2022census"/>
}}

As of the [[2016 census of Ireland|2016 census]], the town had a population of 12,459.<ref name=cso2016/> In the same census the population was reportedly made up of 76% white Irish, 1% white Irish travellers, 12% other white ethnicities, 4% black, 2% Asian, 2% other, with 3% not stating their ethnicity.<ref name="sapmap">{{cite web | title = Mallow Demographics | url = http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=C6AA9590-4F5A-44DD-B389-03DB053DC7D3 | publisher = CSO | work = Census 2016 – Small Area Population Statistics | date = 2016 | access-date = 2 April 2018 | archive-date = 3 April 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180403052109/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=C6AA9590-4F5A-44DD-B389-03DB053DC7D3 | url-status = live }}</ref>