Photo: Aervac · CC BY-SA 3.0How Killeshandra works: jobs, income and commuting
At the 2022 census, 17% of the labour force in Killeshandra had no job, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. Travel time from Killeshandra to work, school or college: 23 minutes on average, an hour or longer for 6%. Killeshandra has no Jobs & income Grade: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Jobs and income in Killeshandra: what the figures say
Fewer people in work than most towns
63% of people aged 15 to 64 in Killeshandra had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
17% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 3.3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Killeshandra had €42,060 a year before tax in 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760. CSO publishes no income figure for this place, so this one is our estimate from its electoral divisions. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 23 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 6% 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 and income in Killeshandra, without a grade
Killeshandra has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Jobs for 63% of people aged 15 to 64 in Killeshandra
None of the 5 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Cavan has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
3.3% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 39% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 42% 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.
€42,060 a year: the median household in Killeshandra
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Killeshandra’s median is 20% 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 €38,830. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 43% above Killeshandra’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
From Killeshandra, work or school is 23 minutes away on average, under the middle of Irish towns
Of the 5 towns of County Cavan counted, none has a shorter average trip. The middle of County Cavan has 50% of trips under 15 minutes; here it is 43%. Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 50%, against 37% in the middle of County Cavan. The middle of County Cavan averages 26.9 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.
Where Killeshandra’s residents work, by industry
The second-largest is Professional services, health and education, at 19% (against 25% across Irish towns), and transport and communications is the smallest of the seven, at 0%.
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.
In Killeshandra, 20% of commuters leave the car behind
The car or van takes 73% of commuters; the middle of County Cavan has 78%. Mainly from home: 7.1% of residents in work, next to 11% in the middle of Irish towns. More people walk to work here than in the middle of County Cavan: 18% against 11%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The count signing on in County Cavan is 25% below its 2019 level
2,448 people were signing on in County Cavan in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 rose by 1%. For 38 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. Its lowest month since 2019 was May 2025, at 2,371. County Cavan saw its highest month in July 2020: 3,676 people signing on, 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).
In Killeshandra, 27% of adults are retired
Compared with Irish towns, 42% are in work (against 57%) and 7.4% 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.
Walking to the shops, school and post office in Killeshandra
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a post office: 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.
The places around Killeshandra, side by side
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Killeshandra | 63% | 17% | €42K | 23 min | — | — |
| Belturbet 11.2 km | 58% | 19% | €34K | 26.4 min | D− | C+ |
| Cavan 11.4 km | 63% | 14% | €48K | 24.5 min | C− | C |
| Ballyconnell 11.6 km | 69% | 12% | €39K | 22.1 min | C+ | B− |
| Ballinagh 12 km | 64% | 13% | €53K | 29.3 min | C− | C |
| Ballinamore 18.2 km | 64% | 14% | €40K | 25.5 min | D | 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 Killeshandra, 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 Killeshandra
What is the unemployment rate in Killeshandra?
17% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Killeshandra get to work?
73% of commuters go by car or van, 18% walk, 1.2% cycle and 1.2% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 7.1% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Killeshandra?
Trips to work, school or college take 23 minutes on average; 6% take an hour or more and 43% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Killeshandra?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Killeshandra’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Killeshandra 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 Killeshandra 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).