What is the best coding class in Clonmel?
Clonmel has 18,224 usual residents in the census town tables and 7,178 households, 5,626 of which report broadband. Its learners can study with us without travelling anywhere: a live teacher on video, twice in most weeks, in a small group at one level or one to one, for any age from six to sixty-seven. The first lesson costs nothing, and from then on the fee is USD 100 a month for a group place or USD 150 for private lessons.
A CSO table published in 2026 measures how far people live from nine kinds of service, town by town. For Clonmel, the average person lives 2.3 km from an emergency department, 23.7 km from an injury unit, and 2.3 km from whichever of the two is nearer. That last figure looks as though it could be worked out from the first two: just take the smaller. For Clonmel it can. For Limerick city and suburbs it cannot: 4.8 km to an emergency department, 3.1 km to an injury unit, and 2.5 km to the nearer of the two, which is less than either. The reason is the whole lesson on this page: the nearest facility is chosen person by person, before anybody averages anything, and some people are closer to one kind and some to the other.
Facts last verified 19 September 2026. Teaching is online; no Clonmel branch is claimed.
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See the syllabusMean distance for persons, in kilometres, from CSO table MDSI07, for an emergency department, an injury unit, and whichever of the two is nearer. The distances are published; the last column is our arithmetic.
| Area as labelled | Emergency department | Injury unit | Nearer of the two | Smaller of the first two |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonmel, Counties Tipperary & Waterford | 2.3 | 23.7 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
| Limerick city and suburbs, Counties Limerick & Clare | 4.8 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 3.1 |
| Dublin city and suburbs, Counties Dublin & Meath | 4.7 | 7.4 | 4.4 | 4.7 |
| State | 18.9 | 35.3 | 15.6 | 18.9 |
For every Clonmel resident the emergency department is nearer than any injury unit, so the nearer-of-two distance is always the emergency department distance, and its average is the same 2.3 km. When one option wins for everybody, the shortcut happens to work.
In Limerick some people are closer to an emergency department and others to an injury unit. Each takes their own nearer option, so the average of those choices, 2.5 km, beats both 4.8 and 3.1. Taking the smaller of the two averages would overstate the distance by 0.6 km.
Across all 223 rows the nearer-of-two figure is never higher than the smaller of the two means, as the arithmetic requires. It equals it in 214 rows and is strictly lower in nine, two of those by a tenth of a kilometre, within rounding.
The general version of this appears everywhere summaries are reused. The average of each customer's cheapest option is not the cheaper of two average prices. The average of each pupil's best subject is not the best of the subject averages. The typical fastest route is not the faster of two typical routes. Whenever a calculation involves choosing, ranking or combining for each person, it has to be done on the individual records first and summarised afterwards; summaries of the parts cannot be stitched back into a summary of the choice.
The learner builds a small simulation to prove it to themselves: a list of made-up residents, each with a distance to service A and service B, then two calculations, the average of each person's smaller distance and the smaller of the two averages. They arrange the residents so that one service always wins and watch the two answers agree, then mix them so that different people prefer different services and watch the first answer fall below the second. Finally they load the real MDSI07 table and write the check we ran: across 223 rows, is the nearer-of-two figure ever above the smaller mean? It never is.
MDSI07 figures for persons in Clonmel, in kilometres: the mean, the median, and the distances within which the nearest quarter and nearest three quarters of residents live. All published.
| Service | Mean | Median | Nearest 25% within | Nearest 75% within |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacy | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.6 |
| General practitioner | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.8 |
| HSE emergency department | 2.3 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 2.9 |
| HSE injury unit | 23.7 | 23.7 | 22.9 | 24.3 |
| Emergency department or injury unit, whichever is nearer | 2.3 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 2.9 |
Nearest 25% within 0.8 km for a GP means a quarter of Clonmel residents live within 0.8 km of one. Nearest 75% within 1.8 km means three quarters live within 1.8 km, so a quarter live further than that.
The nearer-of-two row matches the emergency department row in all four columns, which is what happens when one option is nearest for everybody. The rule holds for medians and quarters as well as means.
It gives distances, not names. Nothing in it says which emergency department or injury unit is nearest, and this page does not attribute any figure to a particular hospital.
The hospital and the station
The HSE lists Tipperary University Hospital at Western Road, Clonmel, E91 VY40, and Irish Rail gives Clonmel station as Thomas Street, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, E91 N9C4. Both are named from their own published listings; we have no connection with either, and the distance table above names no facility.
Published for the built-up area Clonmel, Counties Tipperary and Waterford, in the Census 2022 small area tables.
| Measured | Count |
|---|---|
| Usual residents | 18,224 |
| Households | 7,178 |
| Households reporting broadband | 5,626 |
| Working residents in the travel table | 7,900 |
| Residents travelling to school, college or childcare | 4,177 |
| Children under fifteen in childcare | 1,207 |
Of the 7,900 working residents, 4,636 drive, 967 walk, 544 travel as a car passenger, 440 give home as their main answer, 331 by van and 132 by bicycle, with 755 not stating.
Of 4,177 journeys to school, college or childcare, 2,570 are as a car passenger, 667 on foot, 334 by bus and 137 driving.
A separate question records 1,439 working residents doing some work at home, 5,334 who never do and 1,127 who did not state.
A town in two counties
The CSO publishes the built-up area as Clonmel, Counties Tipperary and Waterford, because the town reaches across the county line. That is stated here as a fact about the label; the County Tipperary page deals with what it means for county figures.
Twice in most weeks, a fixed hour, and a teacher who is present for all of it.
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Adults begin from whatever point they are at, and 1,439 working residents here already work from home some of the week.
The HSE and Irish Rail are quoted from their own published pages, and neither, nor Tipperary County Council, has any connection with us. Census counts and service distances are Central Statistics Office figures printed as published. The comparison of the nearer-of-two figure with the smaller of the two means, and the count of rows where they differ, are our own checks on the full MDSI07 table, run on 19 September 2026.
Ages are a guide; the free lesson finds the real level.
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Data Science for TeensPython for TeensKnowing when pre-aggregated figures can be combined at work and when the raw records are needed.
Python Automation CourseData and AI Analytics for Non-Programmers (Excel, Sheets, Power BI)It will, and it will not warn you.
Give an assistant the average distance to an emergency department and to an injury unit and ask how far people live from the nearer one, and it will usually take the smaller average. For Clonmel that is right. For Limerick it overstates the answer, and nothing in the reply signals that the method only works when one option is nearest for everybody.
A learner who has run the simulation recognises the shape of the question: a choice made per person, then averaged. They ask for the individual records, or for the combined figure the publisher already computed, rather than stitching one together from summaries. That is the difference between an answer that looks reasonable and one that is right.
Arithmetic on summaries is instant. Knowing when summaries can be combined at all is a person's job, and this table is a good place to learn it. The longer argument is in why coding still matters for young people.
The practical side, in six lines.
A teacher on the call for the full hour, responding to what the learner does.
Five to ten learners at the same stage, joining from Clonmel, around Ireland and abroad.
About eight lessons a month, at an hour agreed when the course begins.
Holidays and exam weeks are planned into the timetable before it starts.
A computer that can run a video call for an hour, sound you can hear, and a microphone that works.
Some learners are taught one to one, when no group matches both their level and their evenings.
A distance of zero
On the distance table, every service has a figure. A coding lesson taken at home is the one that measures nothing at all, which is rather the point.
What it costs.
The first lesson, taught in full and assessed, at no charge.
A month in a group of five to ten at one level, about eight live lessons.
A month of private lessons on the same weekly pattern.
One monthly price, in US dollars, for every household outside India, with no euro version shown beside it. Billing begins with the first paid month, once the free lesson has fixed what will be taught and when, and the pricing page covers the exceptions: holidays, absences and a change from group to private teaching or back.
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Let us know the learner's age and interests. The first hour is planned around those, and could finish with a game, a working script, or a proof on screen that the order of a calculation changes its answer.
What families in Clonmel ask first.
The Census 2022 small area tables count 18,224 usual residents in the built-up area, published as Clonmel, Counties Tipperary and Waterford, in 7,178 households. The Tipperary page uses the census town list, which counts on a slightly different basis.
Learners compare two ways of finding the average distance to the nearer of two services: averaging each person's nearer distance, and taking the smaller of two averages. Using CSO table MDSI07 they show the two agree for Clonmel, 2.3 km, but not for Limerick, 2.5 km against 3.1 km, and check the rule across 223 rows.
Because each person picks their own nearer option before any averaging happens. When some people are nearer to one service and others to the other, the average of those individual choices beats both separate averages.
Of the 7,900 working residents in the travel table, 4,636 drive, 967 walk, 544 travel as a car passenger, 440 give working mainly at or from home, 331 by van and 132 by bicycle, with 755 not stating.
After school, in the evening and on weekend mornings. Put the two clocks side by side and India is four and a half hours ahead from late March to late October and five and a half for the rest of the year, and we choose a slot that sits sensibly inside both days.
Yes, up to sixty-seven. Plenty of adults start from nothing, and the free lesson settles whether they join a group or learn one to one.
The table does not say. It publishes distances to the nearest facility of each type without naming the facility, so this page does not attribute the figure to any particular hospital.
No, and we never imply one. Teaching is live over video only, with no premises in Ireland. A learner needs a laptop or desktop, working sound and a steady connection, and the number shown here belongs to India.
The first lesson is free. After that a shared place costs USD 100 a month and brings two live lessons a week, about eight monthly, with five to ten learners; one to one on the same schedule is USD 150 a month. Everything is agreed before payment.
Five to ten, grouped by ability, pace and goal rather than age or address. Where nothing suitable meets at a workable hour, we teach one to one instead.
The rest of the county is on the County Tipperary page, and the city pages for Waterford and for Limerick, the other place in this page's comparison, sit in the same province of Munster. To weigh up online providers, see this comparison, and the Ireland hub gathers every place.