Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Convoy has lower household incomes than 93% of Irish towns
Unemployment in Convoy stood at 15% at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. On jobs and income together, Convoy grades C−. The average trip to work, school or college from Convoy takes 21.2 minutes; 3.7% take an hour or more.
What the numbers say about work in Convoy
Fewer people in work than most towns
63% of people aged 15 to 64 in Convoy had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
15% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 4.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Convoy had €38,840 a year before tax in 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 21.2 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 3.7% 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.
Convoy earns C− for jobs and income
Better than 21% of Irish towns on four measures taken together.
Its strongest measure is trip times; its weakest, household income.
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.
Jobs for 63% of people aged 15 to 64 in Convoy
Of the 6 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Donegal, 3 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 4.7% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 56% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 49% 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: €38,840 a year
That puts Convoy 9% below the median for County Donegal as a whole, €42,497. 3 of the county’s 6 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €36,301. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 55% above Convoy’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Work and school are closer to hand from Convoy than for the middle of Irish towns
The middle of County Donegal has 36% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 49%, the commonest length. Of the 6 towns of County Donegal counted, 3 have a shorter average trip. Trips of under 15 minutes are 44% of the total, against 56% in the middle of County Donegal.
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.
The work of Convoy’s residents, industry by industry
The second-largest is Commerce and trade, at 27% (against 26% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 3.4%.
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.
8% of Convoy’s commuters walk, cycle, or take the bus or train
Home is the main workplace for 11%, close to the middle of Irish towns. The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 2.2%. Walking takes 5.3% of commuters and cycling 0.5%, where the middle of Irish towns has 10% and 2.4%. The car or van carries most commuters: 81%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
County Donegal on the Live Register since 2019
6,785 people were signing on in County Donegal in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count fell by 7%. For 73 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. County Donegal saw its highest month in May 2020: 10,882 people signing on, 9% 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).
In work, studying or retired: 49% of Convoy’s adults work
Compared with Irish towns, 7.9% are full-time students (against 11%) and 9.7% 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.
Convoy earns D− for walkability
Better than 3% of Irish towns on two measures together.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a food shop: 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 places around Convoy, side by side
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convoy | 63% | 15% | €39K | 21.2 min | C− | D− |
| Raphoe 4 km | 53% | 20% | €35K | 20.8 min | D | C− |
| Ballybofey-Stranorlar 10.3 km | 63% | 14% | €41K | 22.3 min | C− | D |
| Letterkenny 11.5 km | 65% | 12% | €50K | 19 min | B− | D |
| Lifford 11.6 km | 52% | 23% | €32K | 23.5 min | D− | D |
| Newtowncunningham 17.8 km | 60% | 15% | €44K | 23.3 min | D | 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 Convoy, 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 Convoy
What is the unemployment rate in Convoy?
15% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 4.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Convoy a good place to find work?
Convoy earns a C− for jobs and income, better than 21% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together.
How do people in Convoy get to work?
81% of commuters go by car or van, 5.3% walk, 0.5% cycle and 2.2% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 11% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Convoy?
Trips to work, school or college take 21.2 minutes on average; 3.7% take an hour or more and 44% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Convoy?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Convoy’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Convoy 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 Convoy 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).