Photo: Darren J. Prior · CC BY-SA 4.0Ballymun has a smaller share of its working-age people in jobs than 81% of Irish towns
Ballymun grades D for jobs and income, #114 of 116 in County Dublin. Unemployment in Ballymun stood at 16% at the 2022 census, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. The bus or train carries 23% of its commuters.
Work in Ballymun, in a few figures
Fewer people in work than most towns
63% of people aged 15 to 64 in Ballymun had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
16% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 5.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 30.9 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 9.5% 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.
Ballymun grades D for jobs and income
Better than 6% of Irish towns across four measures, #114 of 116 in County Dublin.
Its strongest measure is household income; its weakest, the unemployment rate.
Graded against Irish towns of 1,000 people or more; a shorter trip and less unemployment count in its favor.
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.
In Ballymun, 63% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Of the 115 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Dublin, 8 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
5.7% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 59% 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, 53% 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.
Trips from Ballymun average 30.9 minutes, longer than the 27.6 of the middle of Irish towns
An hour or more: 9.5% of trips, much as in the middle of County Dublin. Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 62%, against 59% in the middle of County Dublin. Among County Dublin’s 116 towns counted, 52 have shorter trips on average.
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 industries Ballymun’s residents work in
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 middle household in Ballymun: €53,160 a year
Before tax, 2022: lower than in 54% of Irish towns.
Ballymun’s median is 25% below County Dublin’s (€71,123). Of the county’s 115 other towns of 2,500 or more, 102 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €47,720. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 13% above Ballymun’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Across Ballymun, household incomes range from €41K to €77K
Median gross household income in each of the 6 electoral divisions where 50 or more of Ballymun’s households live: the highest is 1.9 times the lowest. The share of people aged 15 to 64 in work runs from 54% in Ballymun B to 75% in Ballymun F.
| Electoral division | Households here | Median income (whole division) | Aged 15–64 in work (here) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballymun C | 2,111 | €48,123 | 61% |
| Ballymun A | 1,942 | €56,217 | 66% |
| Ballymun B | 1,513 | €45,916 | 54% |
| Ballymun D | 975 | €40,504 | 59% |
| Ballymun F | 895 | €68,251 | 75% |
| Ballymun E | 599 | €77,363 | 72% |
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022 (GPIIA01): each division’s median covers all its households, including any outside Ballymun; households and the share in work are Ballymun’s own part (Census 2022, CSO SAPS).
Ballymun commutes on foot, by bike or bus for 40% of trips
The middle of County Dublin has 13%; here, 22% take the bus. The car or van takes 52% of commuters, close to the middle of County Dublin. Working mainly from home: 7.7% here, 11% in the middle of Irish towns. 6.1% cycle to work, against 2.4% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
County Dublin on the Live Register since 2019
48,940 people were signing on in County Dublin in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count rose by 5%. It has been above its 2019 average for the last 10 months. Its lowest month since 2019 was February 2022, at 40,783. County Dublin: signing on peaked in July 2026 at 51,932, 11% 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 Ballymun do: 53% are 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.
How walkable Ballymun is: A−
Better than 83% of Irish towns on two measures together, #50 of 116 in County Dublin.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a post office: 64%.
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.
Irish towns of 15,600 to 30,100, and where Ballymun sits
| # | Town | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ballincollig County Cork | 21,940 | 73% | 5.1% | €76K | A+ |
| 2 | Rathmines East County Dublin | 16,923 | 77% | 5.4% | €94K | A+ |
| 3 | Douglas County Cork | 22,029 | 73% | 5.1% | €80K | A+ |
| 4 | Sandymount County Dublin | 22,340 | 75% | 6.3% | €90K | A+ |
| 5 | Templeogue County Dublin | 18,076 | 75% | 4.8% | €87K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 52 | Carlow County Carlow | 27,351 | 62% | 12% | €50K | C− |
| 53 | Jobstown County Dublin | 23,437 | 62% | 15% | €59K | D |
| 54 | Ballymun County Dublin | 22,321 | 63% | 16% | €53K | D |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Ballymun, and others in County Dublin.
How Ballymun compares with the places nearby
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballymun | 63% | 16% | €53K | 30.9 min | D | A− |
| Dubber 1.6 km | 72% | 9% | €66K | 34.5 min | B | B− |
| Ballygall 1.7 km | 71% | 7.7% | €61K | 29.9 min | B+ | A |
| Santry 1.9 km | 74% | 8.6% | €75K | 34.6 min | B | B |
| Whitehall 2 km | 71% | 6.5% | €68K | 31.9 min | B+ | A |
| Finglas North 2.1 km | 67% | 12% | €54K | 30.3 min | C | A− |
| Finglas South 2.8 km | 64% | 13% | €50K | 29.2 min | C− | A |
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 Ballymun, 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 Ballymun
What is the unemployment rate in Ballymun?
16% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 5.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Ballymun a good place to find work?
Ballymun earns a D for jobs and income, better than 6% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together, #114 of 116 in County Dublin.
How do people in Ballymun get to work?
52% of commuters go by car or van, 11% walk, 6.1% cycle and 23% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 7.7% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Ballymun?
Trips to work, school or college take 30.9 minutes on average; 9.5% take an hour or more and 21% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Ballymun?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Ballymun’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Ballymun 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 Ballymun 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).