Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0Making a living in Ballymacoda
Trips to work, school or college from Ballymacoda take 41.1 minutes on average; for 19%, it takes an hour or more. Unemployment in Ballymacoda stood at 6.9% at the 2022 census (the middle of Irish towns: 9.2%). The Jobs & income Grade leaves out Ballymacoda: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
The work figures that set Ballymacoda apart
Work near the middle
72% of people aged 15 to 64 in Ballymacoda had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 41.1 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 19% 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 Ballymacoda has no Jobs & income Grade
Ballymacoda has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Against the middle of Irish towns, Ballymacoda has the longer trip to work or school
Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 53%, against 59% in the middle of County Cork. For the middle of County Cork, the average trip is 24.8 minutes. 54 of the 54 towns of County Cork counted have a shorter average trip. Trips of under 15 minutes are 12% of the total, against 33% in the middle of County Cork.
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 for 72% of people aged 15 to 64 in Ballymacoda
Of the 54 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Cork, 43 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
1.7% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 37% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 62% 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: €63,180 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Ballymacoda’s median is 4% above County Cork’s (€60,671). 19 of the county’s 54 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. After tax, the median is €54,560. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 5% below Ballymacoda’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
How Ballymacoda gets to work: 1% without a car
Walking and cycling barely figure, against 10% and 2.4% in the middle of Irish towns. Most go by car or van: 92% of commuters.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
People signing on in County Cork, against 2019
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 saw its highest month in July 2020: 25,292 people signing on, 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).
Walking to the shops, school and post office in Ballymacoda
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a food shop: 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.
How Ballymacoda compares with the places nearby
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballymacoda | 72% | 6.9% | €63K | 41.1 min | — | — |
| Castlemartyr 8 km | 73% | 7.4% | €58K | 28.1 min | A− | B |
| Youghal 8.9 km | 63% | 9.8% | €44K | 27.9 min | C− | C− |
| Cloyne 13.1 km | 70% | 7.1% | €63K | 27.8 min | B+ | D |
| Midleton 16.2 km | 70% | 6.9% | €63K | 25.4 min | A− | 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 Ballymacoda, 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 Ballymacoda
What is the unemployment rate in Ballymacoda?
6.9% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Ballymacoda get to work?
92% of commuters go by car or van, 0% walk, 0% cycle and 1% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 6.9% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Ballymacoda?
Trips to work, school or college take 41.1 minutes on average; 19% take an hour or more and 12% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Ballymacoda?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Ballymacoda’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Ballymacoda 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 Ballymacoda 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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