Photo: Xx78900 · CC BY-SA 4.0Crossbarry at work: jobs, income and the commute
On census day in 2022, 18% of its workers worked mainly from home. Unemployment in Crossbarry stood at 2.6% at the 2022 census (the middle of Irish towns: 9.2%). The mean journey from Crossbarry lasts 24.7 minutes, and 2.5% exceed an hour.
What the numbers say about work in Crossbarry
Less unemployment than most towns
2.6% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 1% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
The median household in Crossbarry had €92,920 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 ↓
Many work from home
18% of workers worked mainly from home on census day, against 11% in the middle of Irish towns. Getting to work ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
Why Crossbarry has no Jobs & income Grade
Crossbarry has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Crossbarry, 71% of the working-age population has a job
Of the 54 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Cork, 42 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 1% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 59% had been out of work that long. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 65% 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.
Household income in Crossbarry: €92,920 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Crossbarry 53% above the median for County Cork as a whole, €60,671. No town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. Net of tax, it is €74,400. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 35% below Crossbarry’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
1.1% of Crossbarry’s trips to work are on foot, by bike or public transport
The middle of County Cork has 11%; here, 18% work mainly from home. Driving to work: 80% here, 71% in the middle of County Cork. Hardly anyone takes the bus or train to work; the middle of Irish towns has 6% by bus and 0.9% by rail.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Where Crossbarry’s residents work, by industry
The second-largest is Commerce and trade, at 23% (against 26% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 2.1%.
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.
Work and school are closer to hand from Crossbarry than for the middle of Irish towns
Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 72%, against 59% in the middle of County Cork. Among County Cork’s 54 towns counted, 24 have shorter trips on average. The middle of County Cork has 33% of trips under 15 minutes; here it is 23%.
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 monthly count of people signing on in County Cork
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).
Jobs, studies and retirement in Crossbarry: 65% in work
Compared with Irish towns, 18% are full-time students (against 11%), 8.6% are retired (against 15%) and 1.7% 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.
Getting around Crossbarry on foot
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 Crossbarry compares with the places nearby
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossbarry | 71% | 2.6% | €93K | 24.7 min | — | — |
| Inishannon 3.9 km | 77% | 2.6% | €79K | 23.9 min | A+ | B− |
| Killumney 7.7 km | 77% | 3.5% | €91K | 22.9 min | A+ | D− |
| Bandon 9.2 km | 67% | 9.6% | €52K | 24.4 min | B− | B− |
| Ballincollig 9.8 km | 73% | 5.1% | €76K | 22.8 min | A+ | C |
| Inishkenny 12 km | 72% | 6% | €75K | 24.1 min | A+ | C+ |
| Bishopstown 12.3 km | 60% | 6.9% | €60K | 22.2 min | B | A− |
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 Crossbarry, 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 Crossbarry
What is the unemployment rate in Crossbarry?
2.6% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Crossbarry get to work?
80% of commuters go by car or van, 1.1% walk, 0% cycle and 0% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 18% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Crossbarry?
Trips to work, school or college take 24.7 minutes on average; 2.5% take an hour or more and 23% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Crossbarry?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Crossbarry’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Crossbarry 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 Crossbarry 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).