Where Kildrum earns its living
From Kildrum, trips to work, school or college average 25 minutes; 5.4% take an hour or more. 8.2% of the labour force in Kildrum was out of work at the 2022 census, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Kildrum isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What the numbers say about work in Kildrum
Work near the middle
71% of people aged 15 to 64 in Kildrum had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Kildrum had €29,250 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.
Kildrum: jobs and income figures, no grade
Kildrum has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Median household income in Kildrum is €29,250
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Kildrum 31% below the median for County Donegal as a whole, €42,497. Every town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. Net of tax, it is €28,570. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 106% above Kildrum’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
The work of Kildrum’s residents, industry by industry
The second-largest is Commerce and trade, at 22% (against 26% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 2.3%.
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.
In Kildrum, 71% of people of working age are in work
All 6 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Donegal have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 2.9% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 52% had been out of work that long. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 62% 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.
Kildrum commutes on foot, by bike or bus for 3.9% of trips
Against 11% in the middle of Irish towns, 8.9% work mainly from home. The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 2.6%. Walking takes 1.3% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 10%. For 87% of commuters, the trip to work is by car or van.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
25 minutes from Kildrum, shorter than the 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns
The middle of County Donegal has 36% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 63%, the commonest length. In the middle of County Donegal, the trip averages 20.9 minutes. Among County Donegal’s 6 towns counted, 6 have shorter trips on average. Against 56% in the middle of County Donegal, 29% of trips take under 15 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.
Signing on in County Donegal since 2019
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%. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 73 months. 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).
How Kildrum spends its days: 62% of adults in work
The mix is close to Irish towns’ as a whole.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Within 800 m of home in Kildrum
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
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.
How Kildrum compares with the places nearby
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kildrum | 71% | 8.2% | €29K | 25 min | — | — |
| Newtowncunningham 6.4 km | 60% | 15% | €44K | 23.3 min | D | D |
| Muff 13.2 km | 72% | 6.7% | €30K | 25.6 min | B | D |
| Ramelton 16.9 km | 66% | 12% | €46K | 22.3 min | C+ | D |
| Lifford 17 km | 52% | 23% | €32K | 23.5 min | D− | D |
| Raphoe 17.2 km | 53% | 20% | €35K | 20.8 min | D | C− |
| Buncrana 17.9 km | 63% | 12% | €38K | 20.3 min | C | 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 Kildrum, 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 Kildrum
What is the unemployment rate in Kildrum?
8.2% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.9% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Kildrum get to work?
87% of commuters go by car or van, 1.3% walk, 0% cycle and 2.6% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 8.9% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Kildrum?
Trips to work, school or college take 25 minutes on average; 5.4% take an hour or more and 29% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Kildrum?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Kildrum’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Kildrum 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 Kildrum 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).