Photo: Ralph Rawlinson · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs and earnings in Halfway, and the trip to work
At the 2022 census, 5% of the labour force in Halfway had no job; the middle of Irish towns is 9.2%. The average trip to work, school or college from Halfway takes 26.8 minutes; for 1.8%, it takes an hour or more. No Jobs & income Grade is given to Halfway: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
The short version on work in Halfway
More people in work than most towns
77% of people aged 15 to 64 in Halfway had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
5% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 2.6% 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 Halfway had €86,870 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.
Work and pay in Halfway, ungraded
Halfway has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Halfway, 77% of people of working age are in work
All 54 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Cork have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 2.6% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 70% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 71% 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.
Halfway at the median: €86,870 a household
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Halfway 43% above the median for County Cork as a whole, €60,671. One of the county’s 54 towns of 2,500 people or more has a higher median. Net of tax, it is €70,060. The State median is €60,123, 31% below Halfway’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Not by car: 2.4% of Halfway’s commuters walk, cycle or ride the bus or train
87% of commuters go by car or van. 8.9% work mainly from home, against 11% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Halfway sits near the middle of Irish towns on the trip to work or school
Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 69%, against 59% in the middle of County Cork. For the middle of County Cork, the average trip is 24.8 minutes. Among County Cork’s 54 towns counted, 43 have shorter trips on average. Trips of under 15 minutes are 22% of the total, against 33% 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 the count signing on in County Cork has moved
19,928 people were signing on in County Cork in September 2026. 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).
Everyday places within walking distance in Halfway
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 work picture around Halfway
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halfway | 77% | 5% | €87K | 26.8 min | — | — |
| Inishannon 7.2 km | 77% | 2.6% | €79K | 23.9 min | A+ | B− |
| Inishkenny 8.5 km | 72% | 6% | €75K | 24.1 min | A+ | C+ |
| Lehenagh 8.7 km | 69% | 6.8% | €79K | 25.2 min | A | D |
| Ballincollig 9.2 km | 73% | 5.1% | €76K | 22.8 min | A+ | C |
| Killumney 9.3 km | 77% | 3.5% | €91K | 22.9 min | A+ | D− |
| Bishopstown 9.4 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 Halfway, 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 Halfway
What is the unemployment rate in Halfway?
5% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.6% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Halfway get to work?
87% of commuters go by car or van, 0% walk, 0% cycle and 2.4% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 8.9% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Halfway?
Trips to work, school or college take 26.8 minutes on average; 1.8% take an hour or more and 22% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Halfway?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Halfway’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Halfway 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 Halfway 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).