Photo: Finnfrog99 · CC BY-SA 4.0More of Santry’s 15-to-64s are in work than in 90% of Irish towns
At the 2022 census, 8.6% of the labour force in Santry had no job, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. The Jobs & income grade for Santry is B, #64 of 116 in County Dublin. Getting to work, school or college from Santry takes 34.6 minutes on average, and 13% take an hour or more.
Work in Santry: the figures worth knowing
More people in work than most towns
74% of people aged 15 to 64 in Santry 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 Santry had €74,890 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 34.6 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 13% 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.
The Jobs & income grade for Santry: B
Better than 65% of Irish towns once its four measures are combined, #64 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.
In Santry, 74% of people of working age are in work
Of the 115 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Dublin, 85 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 2.2% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 35% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 66% 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.
Median income per household in Santry: €74,890
Before tax, 2022: higher than in 81% of Irish towns.
That puts Santry 5% above the median for County Dublin as a whole, €71,123. 51 of the county’s 115 other towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €60,500. The State median is €60,123, 20% below Santry’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
More time on the road to work or school from Santry than in the middle of Irish towns
The middle of County Dublin averages 31.1 minutes a trip. Of the 116 towns of County Dublin counted, 112 have a shorter average trip. Trips of under 15 minutes are 15% of the total, against 23% in the middle of County Dublin. The middle of County Dublin has 59% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 63%, 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.
What the people of Santry do for work
The second-largest is Commerce and trade, at 23% (against 26% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 0.4%.
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.
Walk, cycle, bus or train: the choice of 40% of Santry’s commuters
By car or van: 49% of commuters, next to 52% in the middle of County Dublin. Mainly from home: 11% of residents in work, much as in the middle of Irish towns. 7.5% walk and 5.7% cycle to work, against 10% and 2.4% 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%. 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: 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).
Jobs, studies and retirement in Santry: 66% in work
Compared with Irish towns, 8.4% are retired (against 15%).
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Santry on foot: a B grade
Better than 61% of Irish towns on two measures together, #103 of 116 in County Dublin.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a post office: 19%.
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.
Santry next to Irish towns of 4,700 to 9,100: 46th of 101 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 7 | Booterstown County Dublin | 8,505 | 71% | 4.8% | €94K | A |
| 8 | Castleknock County Dublin | 6,355 | 77% | 5.9% | €110K | A |
| 9 | Grand Canal Dock County Dublin | 8,320 | 77% | 7.7% | €94K | A |
| … | ||||||
| 44 | Harmonstown County Dublin | 5,769 | 71% | 7.9% | €64K | B+ |
| 45 | Edmondstown County Dublin | 5,451 | 69% | 7.8% | €76K | B+ |
| 46 | Santry County Dublin | 6,710 | 74% | 8.6% | €75K | B |
| 47 | Blessington County Wicklow | 5,611 | 69% | 7.2% | €69K | B |
| 48 | Woodquay and Nuns Island County Galway | 4,948 | 66% | 9.3% | €50K | B |
| … | ||||||
| 101 | Cherry Orchard County Dublin | 8,280 | 56% | 18% | €53K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Santry, and others in County Dublin.
Work next door to Santry
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santry | 74% | 8.6% | €75K | 34.6 min | B | B |
| Ballymun 1.9 km | 63% | 16% | €53K | 30.9 min | D | A− |
| Kilmore 2.1 km | 65% | 12% | €58K | 30.1 min | C | A− |
| Whitehall 2.1 km | 71% | 6.5% | €68K | 31.9 min | B+ | A |
| Beaumont 2.6 km | 74% | 6.6% | €69K | 31.4 min | A− | A |
| Darndale 3.1 km | 63% | 14% | €55K | 30.2 min | D | A− |
| Dubber 3.1 km | 72% | 9% | €66K | 34.5 min | B | B− |
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 Santry, 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 Santry
What is the unemployment rate in Santry?
8.6% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.2% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Santry a good place to find work?
Santry earns a B for jobs and income, better than 65% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together, #64 of 116 in County Dublin.
How do people in Santry get to work?
49% of commuters go by car or van, 7.5% walk, 5.7% cycle and 27% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 11% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Santry?
Trips to work, school or college take 34.6 minutes on average; 13% take an hour or more and 15% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Santry?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Santry’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Santry 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 Santry 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).