Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainJobs and the daily commute in Brittas
At the 2022 census, 8% of the labour force in Brittas had no job; the middle of Irish towns is 9.2%. Trips to work, school or college from Brittas take 37.3 minutes on average, and 16% take an hour or more. The Jobs & income Grade leaves out Brittas: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Brittas at work: what stands out
More people in work than most towns
73% of people aged 15 to 64 in Brittas had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
The median household in Brittas had €76,380 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 37.3 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 16% 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 and income in Brittas, without a grade
Brittas has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In work in Brittas: 73% of the 15-to-64s
Of the 116 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Dublin, 82 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 2.3% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 43% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. 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.
Brittas at the median: €76,380 a household
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Brittas 7% above the median for County Dublin as a whole, €71,123. Of the county’s 116 towns of 2,500 or more, 47 have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €63,070. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 21% below Brittas’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Brittas spends longer getting to work or school than the middle of Irish towns
The middle of County Dublin averages 31.1 minutes a trip. Among County Dublin’s 116 towns counted, 116 have shorter trips on average. The middle of County Dublin has 23% of trips under 15 minutes; here it is 18%. The middle of County Dublin has 59% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 56%, the commonest length.
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.
Brittas gets to work without a car for 8.2% of commuters
Driving dominates: 77% go to work by car or van. Working mainly from home: 14% here, 11% in the middle of Irish towns. 4.1% go by bus and 2.7% by rail, where the middle of Irish towns has 6% and 0.9%. On foot: 1.4% of commuters, next to 10% in the middle of Irish towns.
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 saw its highest month in July 2026: 51,932 people signing on, 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).
Everyday places a walk away in Brittas
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.
Work in the places around Brittas
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brittas | 73% | 8% | €76K | 37.3 min | — | — |
| Rathcoole 4.4 km | 78% | 5.7% | €78K | 30.3 min | A | B |
| Saggart 4.6 km | 73% | 9.4% | €69K | 33.1 min | B | B |
| Jobstown 5.6 km | 62% | 15% | €59K | 31.6 min | D | B+ |
| Newcastle 6.6 km | 75% | 6.8% | €77K | 32.3 min | A− | C |
| Fettercairn 6.7 km | 63% | 13% | €62K | 30.8 min | C− | B+ |
| Bohernabreena 7.7 km | 69% | 8.1% | €83K | 30.5 min | B+ | C− |
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 Brittas, 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 Brittas
What is the unemployment rate in Brittas?
8% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Brittas get to work?
77% of commuters go by car or van, 1.4% walk, 0% cycle and 6.8% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 14% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Brittas?
Trips to work, school or college take 37.3 minutes on average; 16% take an hour or more and 18% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Brittas?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Brittas’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Brittas 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 Brittas 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).
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