Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Where Ballyhooly earns its living
Trips to work, school or college from Ballyhooly take 31.7 minutes on average, and 9.6% take an hour or more. At the 2022 census, 4.2% of the labour force in Ballyhooly had no job, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. The Jobs & income Grade leaves out Ballyhooly: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What stands out about work in Ballyhooly
Less unemployment than most towns
4.2% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 1.3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 31.7 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 9.6% 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 Ballyhooly, without a grade
Ballyhooly has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
66% of Ballyhooly’s 15-to-64s are in work
Of the 54 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Cork, 15 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
1.3% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 52% 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, 56% 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.
Ballyhooly spends longer getting to work or school than the middle of Irish towns
54 of the 54 towns of County Cork counted have a shorter average trip. Against 33% in the middle of County Cork, 29% of trips take under 15 minutes. Trips of 15 to 44 minutes are the most common, at 47% (middle of County Cork: 59%). Across County Cork, the middle town’s trips average 24.8 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.
Where Ballyhooly’s residents work, by industry
The second-largest is Manufacturing, at 22% (against 11% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 2.4%.
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.
Median household income: €61,010 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Ballyhooly’s median is 1% above County Cork’s (€60,671). Of the county’s 54 towns of 2,500 or more, 21 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €51,960. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 1% below Ballyhooly’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
4.5% of commuters from Ballyhooly go without the car
Buses carry 0.4% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 6%. Walking takes 4.1% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 10%. The car or van carries most commuters: 84%. Mainly from home: 11% of residents in work, much as in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
How the count signing on in County Cork has moved
19,928 people were signing on in County Cork in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 rose by 5%. Its lowest month since 2019 was February 2022, at 18,274. County Cork: signing on peaked in July 2020 at 25,292, 14% 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).
Ballyhooly at work: 56% of adults have a job
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 Ballyhooly
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.
Neighbouring places to Ballyhooly, compared
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyhooly | 66% | 4.2% | €61K | 31.7 min | — | — |
| Fermoy 8.1 km | 65% | 10% | €50K | 24.8 min | C+ | C |
| Rathcormac 11.1 km | 70% | 6.4% | €61K | 28.5 min | B+ | B− |
| Kilworth 11.3 km | 73% | 5.9% | €66K | 28.3 min | A | C− |
| Watergrasshill 15.4 km | 77% | 3.9% | €82K | 28.9 min | A+ | C+ |
| Mitchelstown 15.9 km | 67% | 11% | €44K | 23.8 min | C+ | B |
| Mallow 16.5 km | 64% | 9.4% | €51K | 28.3 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 Ballyhooly, 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 Ballyhooly
What is the unemployment rate in Ballyhooly?
4.2% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1.3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Ballyhooly get to work?
84% of commuters go by car or van, 4.1% walk, 0% cycle and 0.4% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 11% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Ballyhooly?
Trips to work, school or college take 31.7 minutes on average; 9.6% take an hour or more and 29% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Ballyhooly?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Ballyhooly’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Ballyhooly 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 Ballyhooly 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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