Photo: O'Dea · CC BY-SA 4.0Working-age people in Perrystown are more likely to have a job than in 95% of Irish towns
The mean journey from Perrystown lasts 28.9 minutes, and 7.2% exceed an hour. Unemployment in Perrystown stood at 5.8% at the 2022 census (the middle of Irish towns: 9.2%). On jobs and income together, Perrystown grades A, #30 of 116 in County Dublin.
What the numbers say about work in Perrystown
More people in work than most towns
75% of people aged 15 to 64 in Perrystown had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
5.8% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 1.8% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
Jobs and income in Perrystown earn A
Better than 86% of Irish towns on four measures together, #30 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.
Working-age people in Perrystown: 75% have a job
Of the 115 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Dublin, 100 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
1.8% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 55% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 55% 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.
Where Perrystown’s residents work, by industry
The second-largest is Professional services, health and education, at 26% (against 25% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, 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 income in Perrystown: €61,760 at the median
Before tax, 2022: higher than in 62% of Irish towns.
Perrystown’s median is 13% below County Dublin’s (€71,123). 79 of the county’s 115 other towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. After tax, the median is €52,770. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 3% below Perrystown’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
How household incomes vary across Perrystown: €48K to €73K
Median gross household income in each of the 3 electoral divisions where 50 or more of Perrystown’s households live: the highest is 1.5 times the lowest.
| Electoral division | Households here | Median income (whole division) | Aged 15–64 in work (here) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terenure-Greentrees | 1,113 | €73,219 | 76% |
| Terenure-St. James | 1,045 | €48,144 | 75% |
| Terenure-Cherryfield | 885 | €63,412 | 75% |
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022 (GPIIA01): each division’s median covers all its households, including any outside Perrystown; households and the share in work are Perrystown’s own part (Census 2022, CSO SAPS).
One way or another, 29% of Perrystown’s commuters skip the car
Against 5.9% in the middle of County Dublin, 9.7% cycle here. Driving to work: 58% here, 52% in the middle of County Dublin. Mainly from home: 13% of residents in work, next to 11% in the middle of Irish towns. Buses carry 13% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 6%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
No quicker, no slower: the trip to work or school from Perrystown against the middle of Irish towns
The middle of County Dublin averages 31.1 minutes a trip. 16 of the 116 towns of County Dublin counted have a shorter average trip. Against 23% in the middle of County Dublin, 25% of trips take under 15 minutes. The middle of County Dublin has 59% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 60%, 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.
Signing on in County Dublin 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%. For 10 months in a row now, it has been over its 2019 average. 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).
Retirement is the main occupation for 25% of adults in Perrystown
Compared with Irish towns, 7.7% are full-time students (against 11%) and 2.9% 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.
Everyday places on foot in Perrystown: B+
Better than 70% of Irish towns on two measures together, #86 of 116 in County Dublin.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a post office: 17%.
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.
Out of 100 Irish towns of 5,300 to 10,200, Perrystown comes 20th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ballinlough County Cork | 5,435 | 74% | 4.8% | €72K | A+ |
| 2 | Carrigtwohill County Cork | 5,568 | 73% | 5.5% | €71K | A+ |
| 3 | Oranmore County Galway | 5,819 | 79% | 5.9% | €80K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 6 | Booterstown County Dublin | 8,505 | 71% | 4.8% | €94K | A |
| 7 | Castleknock County Dublin | 6,355 | 77% | 5.9% | €110K | A |
| 8 | Grand Canal Dock County Dublin | 8,320 | 77% | 7.7% | €94K | A |
| … | ||||||
| 18 | Marino County Dublin | 6,272 | 74% | 5.6% | €79K | A |
| 19 | Glasnevin County Dublin | 9,299 | 76% | 5.6% | €76K | A |
| 20 | Perrystown County Dublin | 7,581 | 75% | 5.8% | €62K | A |
| 21 | Dunboyne County Meath | 7,155 | 70% | 5.4% | €89K | A− |
| 22 | Farranshone County Limerick | 7,874 | 70% | 6.9% | €63K | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 100 | Cherry Orchard County Dublin | 8,280 | 56% | 18% | €53K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Perrystown, and others in County Dublin.
Perrystown and its neighbours: work and income
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perrystown | 75% | 5.8% | €62K | 28.9 min | A | B+ |
| Walkinstown 1.1 km | 73% | 6.9% | €63K | 29.5 min | A− | A− |
| Templeogue 1.1 km | 75% | 4.8% | €87K | 29.3 min | A+ | B+ |
| Kimmage 1.7 km | 72% | 9.1% | €60K | 30.7 min | B | A |
| Crumlin 1.9 km | 71% | 9.4% | €56K | 29.9 min | B | A |
| Terenure 2.3 km | 78% | 4.7% | €87K | 30 min | A+ | A+ |
| Inchicore 2.4 km | 68% | 11% | €51K | 32.5 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 Perrystown, 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 Perrystown
What is the unemployment rate in Perrystown?
5.8% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1.8% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Perrystown a good place to find work?
Perrystown earns an A for jobs and income, better than 86% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together, #30 of 116 in County Dublin.
How do people in Perrystown get to work?
58% of commuters go by car or van, 5.8% walk, 9.7% cycle and 13% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 13% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Perrystown?
Trips to work, school or college take 28.9 minutes on average; 7.2% take an hour or more and 25% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Perrystown?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Perrystown’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Perrystown 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 Perrystown 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).