Photo: RavensFists · Public domainWorking-age people in Beaumont are more likely to have a job than in 92% of Irish towns
Unemployment in Beaumont stood at 6.6% at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Beaumont grades A− for jobs and income, #37 of 116 in County Dublin. Trips to work, school or college from Beaumont take 31.4 minutes on average; for 9.3%, it takes an hour or more.
The work numbers behind Beaumont
More people in work than most towns
74% of people aged 15 to 64 in Beaumont had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
6.6% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 1.9% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
The median household in Beaumont had €69,410 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 ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 31.4 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 9.3% 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.
Jobs & income in Beaumont: graded A−
With four measures combined, it comes out better than 80% of Irish towns, #37 of 116 in County Dublin.
Its strongest measure is the share of 15-to-64s in work; its weakest, trip times.
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.
How many in Beaumont have a job: 74% of 15-to-64s
Of the 115 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Dublin, 90 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 1.9% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 50% had been out of work that long. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 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.
What households earn in Beaumont: €69,410 a year
Before tax, 2022: higher than in 74% of Irish towns.
That puts Beaumont 2% below the median for County Dublin as a whole, €71,123. Of the county’s 115 other towns of 2,500 or more, 63 have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €57,640. The State median is €60,123, 13% below Beaumont’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
The trip to work or school is longer from Beaumont than in the middle of Irish towns
Trips of 15 to 44 minutes are the most common, at 61% (middle of County Dublin: 59%). In County Dublin, 65 of 116 towns counted average a shorter trip. Against 23% in the middle of County Dublin, 21% 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.
The industries behind Beaumont’s jobs
Commerce and trade is the second-largest at 26%, against 26% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 0.1%.
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.
Household incomes in Beaumont, part by part: €63K to €75K
Median gross household income in each of the 6 electoral divisions where 50 or more of Beaumont’s households live: the highest is 1.2 times the lowest.
| Electoral division | Households here | Median income (whole division) | Aged 15–64 in work (here) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont B | 1,532 | €67,757 | 73% |
| Beaumont F | 1,377 | €75,151 | 73% |
| Beaumont C | 1,327 | €63,279 | 73% |
| Beaumont A | 1,012 | €70,286 | 75% |
| Beaumont E | 762 | €66,507 | 76% |
| Beaumont D | 754 | €74,840 | 76% |
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022 (GPIIA01): each division’s median covers all its households, including any outside Beaumont; households and the share in work are Beaumont’s own part (Census 2022, CSO SAPS).
37% of commuters in Beaumont go on foot, by bike or by public transport
Against 10% and 2.4% in the middle of Irish towns, 8.9% walk and 7.8% cycle. The car or van takes 51% of commuters; the middle of County Dublin has 52%. Working mainly from home: 12% here, 11% in the middle of Irish towns. By bus 18%, by train, DART or Luas 2.3%: the middle of Irish towns has 6% and 0.9%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
People signing on in County Dublin, against 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).
25% of Beaumont’s adults have retired
Compared with Irish towns, 54% are in work (against 57%) and 3.1% 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.
Getting around Beaumont on foot earns A
Better than 86% of Irish towns on two measures together, #43 of 116 in County Dublin.
Of the everyday places, a post office is the one the fewest residents have within 800 m (73%).
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.
24th of 71: where Beaumont ranks among Irish towns of 13,400 to 25,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 22 | Greystones-Delgany County Wicklow | 22,009 | 72% | 5.5% | €86K | A− |
| 23 | Midleton County Cork | 13,906 | 70% | 6.9% | €63K | A− |
| 24 | Beaumont County Dublin | 19,072 | 74% | 6.6% | €69K | A− |
| 25 | Knocknacarra County Galway | 18,398 | 69% | 7.5% | €71K | A− |
| 26 | Cabinteely County Dublin | 15,864 | 72% | 6.6% | €77K | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 71 | Ballymun County Dublin | 22,321 | 63% | 16% | €53K | D |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Beaumont, and others in County Dublin.
Work in and around Beaumont
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont | 74% | 6.6% | €69K | 31.4 min | A− | A |
| Kilmore 1 km | 65% | 12% | €58K | 30.1 min | C | A− |
| Marino 1.3 km | 74% | 5.6% | €79K | 31.8 min | A | A− |
| Whitehall 1.8 km | 71% | 6.5% | €68K | 31.9 min | B+ | A |
| Clontarf West 1.8 km | 75% | 6.3% | €73K | 31.2 min | A− | A |
| Harmonstown 1.9 km | 71% | 7.9% | €64K | 30.3 min | B+ | A− |
| Darndale 2.3 km | 63% | 14% | €55K | 30.2 min | D | 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 Beaumont, 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 Beaumont
What is the unemployment rate in Beaumont?
6.6% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1.9% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Beaumont a good place to find work?
Beaumont earns an A− for jobs and income, better than 80% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together, #37 of 116 in County Dublin.
How do people in Beaumont get to work?
51% of commuters go by car or van, 8.9% walk, 7.8% cycle and 20% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 12% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Beaumont?
Trips to work, school or college take 31.4 minutes on average; 9.3% take an hour or more and 21% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Beaumont?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Beaumont’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Beaumont 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 Beaumont 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).