Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs and earnings in Kildavin, and the trip to work
The average trip to work, school or college from Kildavin takes 33.5 minutes; for 15%, it takes an hour or more. Unemployment in Kildavin stood at 8.7% at the 2022 census, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. No Jobs & income Grade is given to Kildavin: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Jobs and income in Kildavin: what the figures say
Work near the middle
64% of people aged 15 to 64 in Kildavin had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 33.5 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 15% take an hour or more. The trip to work ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
Kildavin: jobs and income figures, no grade
Kildavin has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
More time on the road to work or school from Kildavin than in the middle of Irish towns
The middle of County Carlow has 43% of trips under 15 minutes; here it is 40%. The middle of County Carlow averages 25.1 minutes a trip.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), time taken to travel to work, school or college; the four bands are the shares of trips whose length was stated.
In Kildavin, 64% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Of the 3 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Carlow, 2 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
2.9% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 62% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 49% were at work.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS): people at work of any age, over residents aged 15 to 64. The census doesn’t cross work with age, so the few people working past 65 count in the top only.
Median household income in Kildavin is €57,680
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Kildavin’s median is 9% above County Carlow’s (€53,119). No town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. After tax, the median is €50,500. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 4% above Kildavin’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
8.8% of commuters in Kildavin go on foot, by bike or by public transport
The middle of Irish towns has 11% working mainly from home; here it is 4.4%. Almost no one goes by bus or rail, against 6% and 0.9% in the middle of Irish towns. Driving dominates: 84% go to work by car or van.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The count signing on in County Carlow is 18% below its 2019 level
2,603 people were signing on in County Carlow in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 fell by 2%. For 49 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. Its lowest month since 2019 was November 2024, at 2,558. County Carlow: signing on peaked in July 2020 at 3,774, 12% above the 2019 average.
Live Register (CSO LRM07), people signing on at social welfare offices each month. It isn’t an unemployment rate: part-time and seasonal workers sign on too, and offices serve areas that aren’t published. This place has no office of its own name, so the chart is its county’s or city’s.
People signing on each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Within 800 m of home in Kildavin
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a food shop: 0%.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), places within 800 m in a straight line of each Census small area; active commuting from Census 2022. OpenStreetMap misses many GP surgeries and bakeries in Ireland, so those two are shown, not graded.
How the places next to Kildavin compare on work
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kildavin | 64% | 8.7% | €58K | 33.5 min | — | — |
| Bunclody 4.3 km | 65% | 15% | €44K | 24.5 min | C− | C |
| Carnew 13 km | 58% | 15% | €45K | 26.4 min | D− | D |
| Tullow 13.7 km | 64% | 12% | €47K | 25.1 min | C | C |
| Ferns 16.5 km | 61% | 14% | €43K | 26.3 min | D | B+ |
| Muinebeag (Bagenalstown) 18.7 km | 62% | 11% | €44K | 21.5 min | C | B+ |
The people of each place: the share in work, unemployment, household income and trip times, with both grades.
What this data can and can’t tell you
What each figure measures for Kildavin, where it comes from, and what Ireland doesn’t publish.
- In work. People at work over residents aged 15 to 64 (Census 2022). Graded in place of the share of everyone 15 and over, so a town of retirees isn’t marked down for them.
- Unemployment. Unemployed people (first-job seekers included) over the labour force, from Census 2022.
- Household income. CSO’s median gross household income for 2022. Where CSO publishes no figure for the town, ours is the household-weighted mean of its electoral divisions’ medians, and the page says so.
- Trip times. Census 2022 groups trips to work, school and college by length; the average uses each group’s middle (7.5 to 105 minutes).
- Signing on. The Live Register counts people signing on at a social welfare office, by office and county. It includes part-time and seasonal workers, so it follows a trend; it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- Walkability. Four everyday places within 800 m (pharmacy, food shop, school, post office) and the share who walk, cycle or take the bus or train to work. GP surgeries and bakeries are shown, not graded: OpenStreetMap misses many.
- Which towns we compare. Places of 2,500 people or more that aren’t a whole city: towns and city neighbourhoods. Grades start at 1,000 people; ranks at 2,500.
- What isn’t here. Ireland publishes no count of the jobs based in each town and no open table of where commuters go (CSO releases its place-of-work file, POWSCAR, on application only), so this page has no daily tide, commute map or jobs-based-here block. Claimant rates aren’t published for towns either: the Live Register is by office and county.
Questions about work in Kildavin
What is the unemployment rate in Kildavin?
8.7% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.9% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Kildavin get to work?
84% of commuters go by car or van, 8.8% walk, 0% cycle and 0% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 4.4% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Kildavin?
Trips to work, school or college take 33.5 minutes on average; 15% take an hour or more and 40% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Kildavin?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Kildavin’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Kildavin work?
Ireland has no open table of where commuters go: CSO releases its place-of-work file (POWSCAR) on application only. The census does give how people from Kildavin travel and how long their trips take.
Sources: CSO Census 2022 SAPS · CSO Geographical Profiles of Income 2022 · CSO Live Register (LRM07) · OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).