Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Work, pay and getting to work in Gleneely
Trips to work, school or college from Gleneely take 28.1 minutes on average, and 13% take an hour or more. The 2022 census put unemployment in Gleneely at 14%, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Gleneely isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Gleneely and work: the main findings
Fewer people in work than most towns
62% of people aged 15 to 64 in Gleneely had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
14% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 2.2% 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 Gleneely had €36,120 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.
The figures behind jobs and income in Gleneely
Gleneely has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Gleneely, 62% of people of working age are in work
Of the 6 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Donegal, 1 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 2.2% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 27% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 52% 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.
Gleneely households: €36,120 a year at the median
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Gleneely 15% below the median for County Donegal as a whole, €42,497. 5 of the county’s 6 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €34,190. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 66% above Gleneely’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Walk, cycle, bus or train: the choice of 3.4% of Gleneely’s commuters
Most go by car or van: 82% of commuters. Buses carry 1.1% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 6%. 2.3% walk to work, against 10% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Getting to work or school from Gleneely takes about as long as in the middle of Irish towns
6 of the 6 towns of County Donegal counted have a shorter average trip. The middle of County Donegal has 56% of trips under 15 minutes; here it is 43%. For the middle of County Donegal, the average trip is 20.9 minutes.
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 count signing on in County Donegal is 28% below its 2019 level
6,785 people were signing on in County Donegal in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 fell by 7%. For 73 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. County Donegal: signing on peaked in May 2020 at 10,882, 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).
Walking to the shops, school and post office in Gleneely
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.
Work next door to Gleneely
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gleneely | 62% | 14% | €36K | 28.1 min | — | — |
| Carndonagh 7.8 km | 61% | 15% | €35K | 21.6 min | D | C− |
| Moville 9 km | 65% | 11% | €32K | 23.4 min | C | B− |
| Greencastle 10.5 km | 71% | 7.4% | €33K | 24.3 min | B | 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 Gleneely, 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 Gleneely
What is the unemployment rate in Gleneely?
14% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.2% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Gleneely get to work?
82% of commuters go by car or van, 2.3% walk, 0% cycle and 1.1% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 13% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Gleneely?
Trips to work, school or college take 28.1 minutes on average; 13% take an hour or more and 43% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Gleneely?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Gleneely’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Gleneely 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 Gleneely 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).