Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainHow Castlelyons works: jobs, income and commuting
7.6% of the labour force in Castlelyons was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Trips to work, school or college from Castlelyons take 28.2 minutes on average, and 6.7% take an hour or more. The Jobs & income Grade leaves out Castlelyons: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Castlelyons at work: what stands out
Work near the middle
67% of people aged 15 to 64 in Castlelyons had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
The median household in Castlelyons had €66,970 a year before tax in 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760. CSO publishes no income figure for this place, so this one is our estimate from its electoral divisions. Household income ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
Castlelyons: jobs and income figures, no grade
Castlelyons has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Half the households here have more than €66,970 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Castlelyons 10% above the median for County Cork as a whole, €60,671. 17 of the county’s 54 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €55,890. The State median is €60,123, 10% below Castlelyons’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
The industries behind Castlelyons’ jobs
Professional services, health and education is the second-largest at 20%, against 25% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 2.2%.
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.
The share in work in Castlelyons: 67% of 15-to-64s
Of the 54 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Cork, 20 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 1.6% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 33% had been out of work that long. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 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.
Without a car, 4.5% of Castlelyons’ commuters get to work
Mainly from home: 14% of residents in work, next to 11% in the middle of Irish towns. Buses carry 1.7% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 6%. 1.7% walk and 1.1% cycle to work, against 10% and 2.4% in the middle of Irish towns. The car or van carries most commuters: 82%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
A run to work or school from Castlelyons much like the middle of Irish towns
In the middle of County Cork, the trip averages 24.8 minutes. In County Cork, 52 of 54 towns counted average a shorter trip. 37% of trips take under 15 minutes, against 33% in the middle of County Cork. Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 45%, against 59% 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.
The count signing on in County Cork is 6% below its 2019 level
19,928 people were signing on in County Cork in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count 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).
Most of Castlelyons works: 58% of adults are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 11% are retired (against 15%) and 3.2% 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.
What is within walking distance in Castlelyons
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.
The places around Castlelyons, side by side
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castlelyons | 67% | 7.6% | €67K | 28.2 min | — | — |
| Rathcormac 3.4 km | 70% | 6.4% | €61K | 28.5 min | B+ | B− |
| Fermoy 5.8 km | 65% | 10% | €50K | 24.8 min | C+ | C |
| Kilworth 9.3 km | 73% | 5.9% | €66K | 28.3 min | A | C− |
| Watergrasshill 11.6 km | 77% | 3.9% | €82K | 28.9 min | A+ | C+ |
| Tallow 16.2 km | 61% | 15% | €47K | 26.1 min | D | 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 Castlelyons, 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 Castlelyons
What is the unemployment rate in Castlelyons?
7.6% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1.6% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Castlelyons get to work?
82% of commuters go by car or van, 1.7% walk, 1.1% cycle and 1.7% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 14% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Castlelyons?
Trips to work, school or college take 28.2 minutes on average; 6.7% take an hour or more and 37% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Castlelyons?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Castlelyons’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Castlelyons 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 Castlelyons 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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