Photo: Joseph Mischyshyn · CC BY-SA 2.0Bunratty is a student town: 40% of people aged 15 and over are students
Unemployment in Bunratty stood at 6.9% at the 2022 census, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Trips to work, school or college from Bunratty take 22.6 minutes on average, with 3.7% taking an hour or more. Jobs and income go ungraded in Bunratty: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Work in Bunratty, in a few figures
Fewer people in work than most towns
46% of people aged 15 to 64 in Bunratty had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 22.6 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 3.7% 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.
Why Bunratty has no Jobs & income Grade
Bunratty has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Bunratty, 46% of people of working age are in work
None of the 5 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Clare has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Among the unemployed, 100% had been out of work that long.
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.
Getting to work or school from Bunratty takes less time than in the middle of Irish towns
Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 58%, against 44% in the middle of County Clare. 2 of the 5 towns of County Clare counted have a shorter average trip. The middle of County Clare has 44% of trips under 15 minutes; here it is 35%.
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.
Jobs held by Bunratty’s residents, by industry
The second-largest is Transport and communications, at 19% (against 11% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing 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.
Bunratty at the median: €61,250 a household
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Bunratty 12% above the median for County Clare as a whole, €54,654. 2 of the county’s 5 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €53,860. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 2% below Bunratty’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Walk, cycle, bus or train: the choice of 8.2% of Bunratty’s commuters
79% of commuters go by car or van. Against 11% in the middle of Irish towns, 13% work mainly from home. By bus: 1.2% of commuters, next to 6% in the middle of Irish towns. Walking takes 5.8% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 10%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Signing on in County Clare: the count since 2019
3,361 people were signing on in County Clare in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 fell by 4%. For 31 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. County Clare: signing on peaked in July 2020 at 5,809, 26% 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).
What residents do
Compared with Irish towns, 39% are in work (against 57%) and 0.8% 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 everyday places near home in Bunratty
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a pharmacy: 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.
Jobs and income in the places around Bunratty
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bunratty | 46% | 6.9% | €61K | 22.6 min | — | — |
| Shannon 4 km | 68% | 9.1% | €52K | 18.4 min | B+ | C+ |
| Sixmilebridge 5.4 km | 69% | 8.4% | €64K | 23.1 min | A− | D− |
| Newmarket-On-Fergus 8.6 km | 72% | 10% | €53K | 19.9 min | A− | C− |
| Caherdavin 10.7 km | 61% | 10% | €52K | 24.6 min | C | C |
| Ballynanty 11.7 km | 45% | 24% | €37K | 20 min | D | A− |
| Farranshone 12.1 km | 70% | 6.9% | €63K | 24.4 min | A− | 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 Bunratty, 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 Bunratty
What is the unemployment rate in Bunratty?
6.9% 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 Bunratty get to work?
79% of commuters go by car or van, 5.8% walk, 0% cycle and 2.4% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 13% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Bunratty?
Trips to work, school or college take 22.6 minutes on average; 3.7% take an hour or more and 35% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Bunratty?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Bunratty’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Bunratty 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 Bunratty 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).
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