Photo: Night of the Big Wind · CC BY-SA 3.0Making a living in Kilmaley
Unemployment in Kilmaley stood at 4.1% at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. The trip to work, school or college averages 28.4 minutes from Kilmaley, with 6.8% taking an hour or more. Jobs and income go ungraded in Kilmaley: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What the numbers say about work in Kilmaley
Work near the middle
71% of people aged 15 to 64 in Kilmaley had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
4.1% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 0.8% 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.
Jobs and income in Kilmaley: the figures
Kilmaley has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
71% of Kilmaley’s 15-to-64s are in work
All 5 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Clare have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
0.8% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 33% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 58% 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.
The industries behind Kilmaley’s jobs
Manufacturing is the second-largest at 19%, against 11% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 0.7%.
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.
What households earn in Kilmaley: €63,160 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Kilmaley’s median is 16% above County Clare’s (€54,654). 2 of the county’s 5 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. After tax, the median is €56,190. The State median is €60,123, 5% below Kilmaley’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Walking, cycling, the bus or the train: 2.8% of Kilmaley’s commuters
The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking to work; here it is 1.4%. 87% of commuters go by car or van. 10% work mainly from home, about the same as in the middle of Irish towns. The bus takes 0.7% of commuters, against 6% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Kilmaley spends about as long getting to work or school as the middle of Irish towns
The middle of County Clare averages 23.1 minutes a trip. Among County Clare’s 5 towns counted, 5 have shorter trips on average. Trips of under 15 minutes are 19% of the total, against 44% in the middle of County Clare. Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 70%, against 44% in the middle of County Clare.
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: 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%. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 31 months. 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).
Jobs, studies and retirement in Kilmaley: 58% in work
The mix is close to Irish towns’ as a whole.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Shops, schools and services on foot in Kilmaley
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Of the everyday places, a food shop is the one the fewest residents have within 800 m (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 next door to Kilmaley
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilmaley | 71% | 4.1% | €63K | 28.4 min | — | — |
| Ennis 8.9 km | 68% | 9.6% | €53K | 23.7 min | B | C |
| Newmarket-On-Fergus 16.5 km | 72% | 10% | €53K | 19.9 min | A− | C− |
| Ennistimon 17.1 km | 66% | 11% | €43K | 21.4 min | C+ | A |
| Lehinch 19.1 km | 70% | 9.3% | €45K | 27.3 min | B− | D |
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 Kilmaley, 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 Kilmaley
What is the unemployment rate in Kilmaley?
4.1% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 0.8% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Kilmaley get to work?
87% of commuters go by car or van, 1.4% walk, 0% cycle and 1.4% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 10% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Kilmaley?
Trips to work, school or college take 28.4 minutes on average; 6.8% take an hour or more and 19% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Kilmaley?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Kilmaley’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Kilmaley 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 Kilmaley 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).