Photo: Dreoven · CC BY-SA 3.0Where Durrus earns its living
Unemployment in Durrus stood at 7.5% at the 2022 census, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. There is no Jobs & income Grade for Durrus: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Work in Durrus, in a few figures
Fewer people in work than most towns
63% of people aged 15 to 64 in Durrus had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Durrus had €37,590 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.
Jobs and income in Durrus: the figures
Durrus has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
How many in Durrus have a job: 63% of 15-to-64s
Of the 54 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Cork, 12 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. Among the unemployed, 33% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 48% 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 in Durrus is €37,590
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Durrus’s median is 38% below County Cork’s (€60,671). Of the county’s 54 towns of 2,500 or more, 53 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €35,120. The State median is €60,123, 60% above Durrus’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Where Durrus’ residents work, by industry
The second-largest is Professional services, health and education, at 24% (against 25% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 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.
Out of the car: 9.3% of Durrus’ commuters
Against 10% and 2.4% in the middle of Irish towns, 7.9% walk and 0.7% cycle. The car or van carries most commuters: 78%. Home is the main workplace for 12%, close to the middle of Irish towns. The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 0.7%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Durrus spends about as long getting to work or school as the middle of Irish towns
Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 49%, against 59% in the middle of County Cork. The middle of County Cork averages 24.8 minutes a trip. Of the 54 towns of County Cork counted, 48 have a shorter average trip. Under 15 minutes: 37% of trips, next to 33% in the middle of County Cork. Long trips of an hour or more are 9.5% of the total, against 4.8% 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.
How many sign on in County Cork: the count since 2019
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: 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).
Retirement is the main occupation for 23% of adults in Durrus
Compared with Irish towns, 48% are in work (against 57%) and 7.1% 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 Durrus
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.
Around Durrus: jobs, pay and the commute
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durrus | 63% | 7.5% | €38K | 27.5 min | — | — |
| Bantry 9 km | 67% | 10% | €38K | 20.8 min | B− | 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 Durrus, 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 Durrus
What is the unemployment rate in Durrus?
7.5% 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 Durrus get to work?
78% of commuters go by car or van, 7.9% walk, 0.7% cycle and 0.7% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 12% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Durrus?
Trips to work, school or college take 27.5 minutes on average; 9.5% take an hour or more and 37% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Durrus?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Durrus’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Durrus 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 Durrus 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).