Photo: Seighean · Public domainWorking-age people in Rathcormac have jobs more often than in 65% of Irish towns
Rathcormac grades B+ for jobs and income. Unemployment in Rathcormac stood at 6.4% at the 2022 census (the middle of Irish towns: 9.2%). The trip to work, school or college averages 28.5 minutes from Rathcormac; 6.9% take an hour or more.
Jobs and income in Rathcormac: what the figures say
Work near the middle
70% of people aged 15 to 64 in Rathcormac had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
6.4% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 2% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
Jobs & income in Rathcormac: graded B+
Taken together, its four measures make it better than 71% of Irish towns.
Its strongest measure is the unemployment rate; its weakest, trip times.
Graded against Irish towns of 1,000 people or more; a shorter trip and less unemployment count in its favor.
Ranks start at 2,500 residents, so this grade has no rank.
How the grade works
Four measures, weighed equally against every Irish town of 1,000 people or more: median gross household income (CSO, 2022), people at work as a share of residents aged 15 to 64, the unemployment rate and the average trip to work, school or college (all three Census 2022). Each becomes a percentile; their average sets the letter.
Work for 70% of 15-to-64s in Rathcormac
Of the 54 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Cork, 32 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 2% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 45% had been out of work that long.
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.
The industries behind Rathcormac’s jobs
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 0.8%.
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.
Median household income in Rathcormac is €61,431
Before tax, 2022: higher than in 61% of Irish towns.
That puts Rathcormac 1% above the median for County Cork as a whole, €60,671. 21 of the county’s 54 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €51,781. The State median is €60,123, 2% below Rathcormac’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
For 7.3% of Rathcormac’s commuters, the trip is on foot, by bike, bus or train
On foot 3.4%, by bike 0.6%: the middle of Irish towns has 10% and 2.4%. Driving dominates: 84% go to work by car or van. Home is the main workplace for 8.1%, where the middle of Irish towns has 11%. By bus: 3.2% of commuters, next to 6% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Getting to work or school from Rathcormac takes about as long as in the middle of Irish towns
Trips of under 15 minutes make up 32%, close to the middle of County Cork. The middle of County Cork has 59% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 53%, the commonest length. Across County Cork, the middle town’s trips average 24.8 minutes. Of the 54 towns of County Cork counted, 53 have a shorter average trip.
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. 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).
What residents do
Compared with Irish towns, 5.8% are retired (against 15%).
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Walkability in Rathcormac: graded B−
Better than 53% of Irish towns on two measures together.
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.
Neighbouring places to Rathcormac, compared
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rathcormac | 70% | 6.4% | €61K | 28.5 min | B+ | B− |
| Fermoy 6.9 km | 65% | 10% | €50K | 24.8 min | C+ | C |
| Watergrasshill 8.5 km | 77% | 3.9% | €82K | 28.9 min | A+ | C+ |
| Kilworth 11.5 km | 73% | 5.9% | €66K | 28.3 min | A | C− |
| Riverstown 17.4 km | 70% | 5.1% | €83K | 26 min | A | C |
| Carrigtwohill 18.2 km | 73% | 5.5% | €71K | 22.3 min | A+ | C |
| Glanmire 18.6 km | 71% | 5.6% | €87K | 24.6 min | A+ | D |
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 Rathcormac, 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 Rathcormac
What is the unemployment rate in Rathcormac?
6.4% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Rathcormac a good place to find work?
Rathcormac earns a B+ for jobs and income, better than 71% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together.
How do people in Rathcormac get to work?
84% of commuters go by car or van, 3.4% walk, 0.6% cycle and 3.3% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 8.1% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Rathcormac?
Trips to work, school or college take 28.5 minutes on average; 6.9% take an hour or more and 32% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Rathcormac?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Rathcormac’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Rathcormac 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 Rathcormac travel and how long their trips take.
Sources: CSO Census 2022 SAPS · CSO Geographical Profiles of Income 2022 · CSO Live Register (LRM07) · OpenStreetMap (ODbL) · grades: TownRatings. 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).