Of the Foyneses whose literacy was recorded, 72.1% could both read and write, 4.9% could read but not write, and 23% could do neither. Men came out slightly ahead, 74.3% reading and writing against 69.2% of women. Bear in mind these figures include young children; the census itself only counted people aged nine and over when calculating illiteracy, on the grounds that it was unfair to label a child illiterate before they'd had a chance to learn.