Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes in Cootehill trail those of 93% of Irish towns
From Cootehill, trips to work, school or college average 23.9 minutes; for 9%, it takes an hour or more. Cootehill grades C+ for jobs and income. Unemployment in Cootehill stood at 11% at the 2022 census (the middle of Irish towns: 9.2%).
What stands out about work in Cootehill
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Cootehill had €39,338 a year before tax in 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 23.9 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 9% 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.
Jobs & income in Cootehill: graded C+
On four measures together, it is better than 37% of Irish towns.
Its strongest measure is trip times; its weakest, household income.
Graded against Irish towns of 1,000 people or more; a shorter trip and less unemployment count in its favor.
Ranks start at 2,500 residents, so this grade has no rank.
How the grade works
Four measures, weighed equally against every Irish town of 1,000 people or more: median gross household income (CSO, 2022), people at work as a share of residents aged 15 to 64, the unemployment rate and the average trip to work, school or college (all three Census 2022). Each becomes a percentile; their average sets the letter.
How much households earn in Cootehill: €39,338
Cootehill’s median is 25% below County Cavan’s (€52,321). Every town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. After tax, the median is €36,479. The State median is €60,123, 53% above Cootehill’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Less time on the road to work or school from Cootehill than in the middle of Irish towns
Of the 5 towns of County Cavan counted, none has a shorter average trip. Against 50% in the middle of County Cavan, 51% of trips take under 15 minutes. Across County Cavan, the middle town’s trips average 26.9 minutes.
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 Cootehill, 27% of residents in work are in manufacturing, more than in most Irish towns
Professional services, health and education is the second-largest at 21%, against 25% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 3%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), industry of people at work who live here. Ireland doesn’t publish how many jobs are based in each town, so this shows what residents do, not the jobs here.
69% of Cootehill’s 15-to-64s are in work
All 5 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Cavan have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
3.4% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 51% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 54% 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.
18% of commuters in Cootehill go on foot, by bike or by public transport
Most go by car or van: 78% of commuters. By bus: 1.5% of commuters, next to 6% in the middle of Irish towns. Walking takes 15% of commuters and cycling 1.1%, where the middle of Irish towns has 10% and 2.4%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
25% fewer people sign on in County Cavan than in 2019
2,448 people were signing on in County Cavan in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count rose by 1%. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 38 months. Its lowest month since 2019 was May 2025, at 2,371. County Cavan: signing on peaked in July 2020 at 3,676, 13% 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).
Most of Cootehill works: 54% of adults are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 6.1% are full-time students, 18% are retired (against 15%) and 7.5% are long-term sick or disabled (against 4.7%).
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
The walkability of Cootehill: B+
Better than 67% of Irish towns on two measures together.
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.
Work in the places around Cootehill
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cootehill | 69% | 11% | €39K | 23.9 min | C+ | B+ |
| Ballybay 13.4 km | 67% | 11% | €42K | 25.3 min | C | B− |
| Clones 15.9 km | 65% | 11% | €34K | 20.9 min | C+ | A |
| Bailieborough 18.7 km | 66% | 13% | €47K | 28 min | C− | C |
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 Cootehill, 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 Cootehill
What is the unemployment rate in Cootehill?
11% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.4% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Cootehill a good place to find work?
Cootehill earns a C+ for jobs and income, better than 37% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together.
How do people in Cootehill get to work?
78% of commuters go by car or van, 15% walk, 1.1% cycle and 1.6% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 4.6% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Cootehill?
Trips to work, school or college take 23.9 minutes on average; 9% take an hour or more and 51% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Cootehill?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Cootehill’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Cootehill 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 Cootehill travel and how long their trips take.
Sources: CSO Census 2022 SAPS · CSO Geographical Profiles of Income 2022 · CSO Live Register (LRM07) · OpenStreetMap (ODbL) · grades: TownRatings. 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).