Photo: Graham Horn · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Inagh
Unemployment in Inagh stood at 16% at the 2022 census (the middle of Irish towns: 9.2%). The average trip to work, school or college from Inagh takes 28.3 minutes, with 8.2% taking an hour or more. Jobs and income go ungraded in Inagh: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What stands out about work in Inagh
Work near the middle
65% of people aged 15 to 64 in Inagh had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
16% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 5.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
No Jobs & income Grade for Inagh
Inagh has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
How many in Inagh have a job: 65% of 15-to-64s
Of the 5 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Clare, 1 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
5.7% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 63% 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, 47% 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: €49,400 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Inagh’s median is 10% below County Clare’s (€54,654). Of the county’s 5 towns of 2,500 or more, 4 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €43,150. The State median is €60,123, 22% above Inagh’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
1.2% of commuters in Inagh go on foot, by bike or by public transport
12% work mainly from home, against 11% in the middle of Irish towns. Hardly anyone takes the bus or train to work; the middle of Irish towns has 6% by bus and 0.9% by rail. For 85% of commuters, the trip to work is by car or van.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
No quicker, no slower: the trip to work or school from Inagh against the middle of Irish towns
5 of the 5 towns of County Clare counted have a shorter average trip. Against 44% in the middle of County Clare, 25% of trips take under 15 minutes. The middle of County Clare has 44% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 63%, the commonest length. In the middle of County Clare, the trip averages 23.1 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.
Signing on in County Clare, against the 2019 level
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).
Getting around Inagh on foot
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.
Work in the places around Inagh
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inagh | 65% | 16% | €49K | 28.3 min | — | — |
| Ennistimon 10.2 km | 66% | 11% | €43K | 21.4 min | C+ | A |
| Lehinch 12.5 km | 70% | 9.3% | €45K | 27.3 min | B− | D |
| Ennis 13.3 km | 68% | 9.6% | €53K | 23.7 min | B | 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 Inagh, 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 Inagh
What is the unemployment rate in Inagh?
16% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 5.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Inagh get to work?
85% of commuters go by car or van, 1.2% walk, 0% cycle and 0% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 12% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Inagh?
Trips to work, school or college take 28.3 minutes on average; 8.2% take an hour or more and 25% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Inagh?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Inagh’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Inagh 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 Inagh 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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