Photo: sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes in Shankill are higher than in 78% of Irish towns
Trips to work, school or college from Shankill take 33.2 minutes on average, with 12% taking an hour or more. The Jobs & income grade for Shankill is B, #73 of 116 in County Dublin. 21% of its commuters take the bus or train.
What sets Shankill apart on jobs and income
Higher incomes than most towns
The median household in Shankill had €72,780 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 33.2 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 12% take an hour or more. The trip to work ↓
Many work from home
17% of workers worked mainly from home on census day, against 11% in the middle of Irish towns. Getting to work ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
Shankill grades B for jobs and income
Taken together, its four measures make it better than 60% of Irish towns, #73 of 116 in County Dublin.
Its strongest measure is household income; 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.
Half the households here have more than €72,780 a year
Shankill’s median is 2% above County Dublin’s (€71,123). 57 of the county’s 115 other towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. After tax, the median is €60,770. The State median is €60,123, 17% below Shankill’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Against the middle of Irish towns, Shankill has the longer trip to work or school
Trips of 15 to 44 minutes are the most common, at 58% (middle of County Dublin: 59%). For the middle of County Dublin, the average trip is 31.1 minutes. Of the 116 towns of County Dublin counted, 97 have a shorter average trip. Short trips of under 15 minutes make up 20%, where the middle of County Dublin has 23%.
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.
How long trips to work, school or college take, 2022 census (trips whose length wasn’t stated left out).
Shankill gets to work without a car for 28% of commuters
13% go by train, DART or Luas, against 6.8% in the middle of County Dublin. In the middle of County Dublin, 52% drive to work; here it is 55%. 17% work mainly from home, against 11% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.9% walk to work, against 10% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
How residents in work get there (2022 census; people working mainly from home included).
The industries Shankill’s residents work in
Professional services, health and education is the second-largest at 27%, against 25% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 0.3%.
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.
People living here who are in work, by the industry they work in, wherever their job is (2022 census).
70% of Shankill’s 15-to-64s are in work
Of the 115 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Dublin, 42 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Unemployment, counted the census way, was 7.6% of the labour force; the middle of Irish towns is 9.2%. 2.1% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 47% 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, 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.
Household incomes in Shankill, part by part: €63K to €78K
Median gross household income in each of the 3 electoral divisions where 50 or more of Shankill’s households live: the highest is 1.2 times the lowest. The share of people aged 15 to 64 in work runs from 66% in Shankill-Rathsallagh to 71% in Shankill-Shanganagh.
| Electoral division | Households here | Median income (whole division) | Aged 15–64 in work (here) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shankill-Rathmichael | 1,467 | €75,972 | 70% |
| Shankill-Shanganagh | 1,308 | €78,072 | 71% |
| Shankill-Rathsallagh | 1,155 | €62,742 | 66% |
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022 (GPIIA01): each division’s median covers all its households, including any outside Shankill; households and the share in work are Shankill’s own part (Census 2022, CSO SAPS).
7% more people sign on in County Dublin than in 2019
48,940 people were signing on in County Dublin in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 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).
What adults in Shankill do: 54% are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 19% 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.
Everyone aged 15 and over, by what they said they mainly do (2022 census), and the jobs of those in work.
Walkability in Shankill: graded B+
Better than 69% of Irish towns on two measures together, #88 of 116 in County Dublin.
Of the everyday places, a post office is the one the fewest residents have within 800 m (56%).
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.
How Shankill ranks: 43rd of 88 Irish towns of 7,700 to 14,900
| # | Town | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ballsbridge County Dublin | 12,743 | 80% | 5.2% | €99K | A+ |
| 2 | Grantstown and Ballinakill County Waterford | 9,571 | 72% | 6% | €74K | A+ |
| 3 | Terenure County Dublin | 10,391 | 78% | 4.7% | €87K | A+ |
| 4 | Booterstown County Dublin | 8,505 | 71% | 4.8% | €94K | A |
| … | ||||||
| 41 | Bishopstown County Cork | 14,529 | 60% | 6.9% | €60K | B |
| 42 | Cabra East County Dublin | 13,895 | 75% | 8.1% | €58K | B |
| 43 | Shankill County Dublin | 11,009 | 70% | 7.6% | €73K | B |
| 44 | Nenagh County Tipperary | 9,895 | 68% | 9.4% | €48K | B |
| 45 | Rush County Dublin | 10,875 | 69% | 7.2% | €74K | B |
| … | ||||||
| 88 | Summerhill County Dublin | 11,911 | 60% | 15% | €45K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Shankill, and others in County Dublin.
Around Shankill: jobs, pay and the commute
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shankill | 70% | 7.6% | €73K | 33.2 min | B | B+ |
| Killiney 2.1 km | 68% | 8.8% | €71K | 32.3 min | B− | B+ |
| Ballybrack 3 km | 69% | 7% | €70K | 30.3 min | B+ | A− |
| Cabinteely 3.4 km | 72% | 6.6% | €77K | 31.7 min | A− | B+ |
| Bray 4.1 km | 69% | 8.9% | €64K | 31.8 min | B− | A− |
| Dalkey 4.9 km | 70% | 5.1% | €77K | 32.9 min | A− | B+ |
| Foxrock 4.9 km | 70% | 4.2% | €106K | 30.8 min | A | 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 Shankill, 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 Shankill
What is the unemployment rate in Shankill?
7.6% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.1% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Shankill a good place to find work?
Shankill earns a B for jobs and income, better than 60% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together, #73 of 116 in County Dublin.
How do people in Shankill get to work?
55% of commuters go by car or van, 3.9% walk, 2.6% cycle and 21% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 17% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Shankill?
Trips to work, school or college take 33.2 minutes on average; 12% take an hour or more and 20% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Shankill?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Shankill’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Shankill 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 Shankill 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).