Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0Unionhall at work: jobs, income and the commute
Travel time from Unionhall to work, school or college: 22.1 minutes on average, an hour or longer for 5.5%. Unemployment in Unionhall stood at 4.8% at the 2022 census, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. No Jobs & income Grade is given to Unionhall: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What the numbers say about work in Unionhall
Less unemployment than most towns
4.8% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 1.4% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 22.1 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 5.5% 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.
Work and pay in Unionhall, ungraded
Unionhall has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
The share of 15-to-64s in work in Unionhall: 71%
Of the 54 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Cork, 41 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
1.4% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 52% 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, 54% 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.
Less time on the road to work or school from Unionhall than in the middle of Irish towns
The commonest trip is 15 to 44 minutes, for 49% of trips; the middle of County Cork has 59%. For the middle of County Cork, the average trip is 24.8 minutes. Among County Cork’s 54 towns counted, 5 have shorter trips on average. Short trips of under 15 minutes make up 43%, where the middle of County Cork has 33%.
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 held by Unionhall’s residents, by industry
The second-largest is Manufacturing, at 15% (against 11% across Irish towns), and building and construction is the smallest of the seven, at 7%.
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.
The median household in Unionhall has €51,060 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Unionhall’s median is 16% below County Cork’s (€60,671). Of the county’s 54 towns of 2,500 or more, 31 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €44,860. The State median is €60,123, 18% above Unionhall’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Without a car, 7.6% of Unionhall’s commuters get to work
Mainly from home: 12% of residents in work, much as in the middle of Irish towns. Buses carry 0.7% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 6%. Walking takes 6.9% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 10%. 81% of commuters go by car or van.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The Live Register in County Cork, month by month
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 adults in Unionhall do: 54% are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 22% 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.
Walking to the shops, school and post office in Unionhall
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 Unionhall: jobs, pay and the commute
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionhall | 71% | 4.8% | €51K | 22.1 min | — | — |
| Skibbereen 8.4 km | 68% | 11% | €37K | 20.7 min | C+ | B+ |
| Dunmanway 18.7 km | 67% | 8.7% | €47K | 24.7 min | B− | B− |
| Clonakilty 18.9 km | 71% | 7.4% | €49K | 21.6 min | A− | 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 Unionhall, 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 Unionhall
What is the unemployment rate in Unionhall?
4.8% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1.4% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Unionhall get to work?
81% of commuters go by car or van, 6.9% walk, 0% cycle and 0.7% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 12% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Unionhall?
Trips to work, school or college take 22.1 minutes on average; 5.5% take an hour or more and 43% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Unionhall?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Unionhall’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Unionhall 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 Unionhall 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).