Photo: Masha Dunaeva EN:User:Dunaevam · Public domainWhere Baltimore earns its living
7.7% of the labour force in Baltimore was out of work at the 2022 census, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. On census day in 2022, 16% of its workers worked mainly from home. The average trip to work, school or college from Baltimore takes 26.3 minutes, and 10% take an hour or more.
The work figures that set Baltimore apart
More people in work than most towns
76% of people aged 15 to 64 in Baltimore had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Unemployment near the middle
7.7% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 2.5% 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.
Why Baltimore has no Jobs & income Grade
Baltimore has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Baltimore at work: 76% of people aged 15 to 64
All 54 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Cork have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
2.5% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 53% 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, 57% 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.
What Baltimore does for a living
The second-largest is Professional services, health and education, at 16% (against 25% 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.
What households earn in Baltimore: €49,160 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Baltimore’s median is 19% below County Cork’s (€60,671). Of the county’s 54 towns of 2,500 or more, 35 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €43,800. The State median is €60,123, 22% above Baltimore’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Leaving the car at home: 20% of commuters in Baltimore
Against 11% in the middle of Irish towns, 16% work mainly from home. By bus: 1.1% of commuters, next to 6% in the middle of Irish towns. In the middle of County Cork, 71% drive to work; here it is 62%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
No quicker, no slower: the trip to work or school from Baltimore against the middle of Irish towns
42% of trips take under 15 minutes, against 33% in the middle of County Cork. 43% of trips take 15 to 44 minutes, where the middle of County Cork has 59%. Across County Cork, the middle town’s trips average 24.8 minutes. In County Cork, 40 of 54 towns counted average a shorter trip.
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.
6% fewer people sign on in County Cork than in 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: 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).
57% of people 16 and over in Baltimore are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 22% are retired (against 15%) and 2.8% 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 Baltimore
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.
How the places next to Baltimore compare on work
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore | 76% | 7.7% | €49K | 26.3 min | — | — |
| Skibbereen 10.5 km | 68% | 11% | €37K | 20.7 min | C+ | 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 Baltimore, 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 Baltimore
What is the unemployment rate in Baltimore?
7.7% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.5% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Baltimore get to work?
62% of commuters go by car or van, 17% walk, 1.6% cycle and 1.1% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 16% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Baltimore?
Trips to work, school or college take 26.3 minutes on average; 10% take an hour or more and 42% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Baltimore?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Baltimore’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Baltimore 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 Baltimore 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).