Work and commuting in Freemount
Trips to work, school or college from Freemount take 32 minutes on average, and 16% take an hour or more. The 2022 census put unemployment in Freemount at 7%, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. No Jobs & income Grade is given to Freemount: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Work in Freemount, in a few figures
Work near the middle
70% of people aged 15 to 64 in Freemount 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 32 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 16% 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.
Freemount: jobs and income figures, no grade
Freemount has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Work and school are further off in time from Freemount than for the middle of Irish towns
In the middle of County Cork, the trip averages 24.8 minutes. 54 of the 54 towns of County Cork counted have a shorter average trip. Against 33% in the middle of County Cork, 28% of trips take under 15 minutes. The commonest trip is 15 to 44 minutes, for 50% of trips; the middle of County Cork has 59%.
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 70% of people aged 15 to 64 in Freemount
Of the 54 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Cork, 34 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
1.6% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 37% 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, 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.
Half the households here have more than €54,750 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Freemount’s median is 10% below County Cork’s (€60,671). Of the county’s 54 towns of 2,500 or more, 26 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €45,880. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 10% above Freemount’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
For 2.9% of Freemount’s commuters, the trip is on foot, by bike, bus or train
Public transport barely figures, where the middle of Irish towns has 6% by bus and 0.9% by rail. The car or van carries most commuters: 89%. Mainly from home: 7.8% of residents in work, next to 11% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
County Cork on the Live Register since 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).
What is within walking distance in Freemount
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.
Jobs and income in the places around Freemount
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freemount | 70% | 7% | €55K | 32 min | — | — |
| Newmarket 10.2 km | 74% | 8.6% | €46K | 28.8 min | B | D |
| Kanturk 10.5 km | 67% | 9.4% | €44K | 28 min | C | C− |
| Buttevant 15.2 km | 60% | 17% | €47K | 27.9 min | D− | B |
| Charleville 16.3 km | 63% | 11% | €43K | 24.7 min | C | 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 Freemount, 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 Freemount
What is the unemployment rate in Freemount?
7% 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 Freemount get to work?
89% of commuters go by car or van, 2.9% walk, 0% cycle and 0% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 7.8% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Freemount?
Trips to work, school or college take 32 minutes on average; 16% take an hour or more and 28% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Freemount?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Freemount’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Freemount 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 Freemount 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).