Photo: Aiden Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0Making a living in Ballinderreen
At the 2022 census, 4% of the labour force in Ballinderreen had no job, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 17% of its workers worked mainly from home on census day in 2022. Ballinderreen isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Where Ballinderreen stands out on work
Less unemployment than most towns
4% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 1.1% 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 Ballinderreen had €73,060 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 ↓
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.
Jobs and income in Ballinderreen, without a grade
Ballinderreen has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Work for 71% of 15-to-64s in Ballinderreen
Of the 20 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Galway, 18 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 1.1% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 42% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 63% 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 income in Ballinderreen: €73,060 at the median
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Ballinderreen 22% above the median for County Galway as a whole, €59,641. One of the county’s 20 towns of 2,500 people or more has a higher median. Net of tax, it is €59,760. The State median is €60,123, 18% below Ballinderreen’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Leaving the car at home: 4.8% of commuters in Ballinderreen
For 78% of commuters, the trip to work is by car or van. The bus takes 1.8% of commuters, against 6% in the middle of Irish towns. The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking and 2.4% cycling; here it is 1.8% and 0.6%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The industries behind Ballinderreen’s jobs
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 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.
About as much time on the road to work or school from Ballinderreen as in the middle of Irish towns
31% of trips take under 15 minutes, against 37% in the middle of County Galway. 6% of trips take an hour or more, against 4.1% in the middle of County Galway. The middle of County Galway has 54% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 57%, the commonest length. The middle of County Galway averages 23.8 minutes a trip. 19 of the 20 towns of County Galway counted have a shorter average trip.
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 count signing on in County Galway is 21% below its 2019 level
11,344 people were signing on in County Galway in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 fell by 2%. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 49 months. County Galway: signing on peaked in July 2019 at 16,574, 10% 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 Ballinderreen do: 63% are in work
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Everyday places a walk away in Ballinderreen
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a pharmacy: 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.
Around Ballinderreen: jobs, pay and the commute
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballinderreen | 71% | 4% | €73K | 27.4 min | — | — |
| Oranmore 8.8 km | 79% | 5.9% | €80K | 24.9 min | A+ | C |
| Murrough 11.5 km | 71% | 8.2% | €60K | 23.4 min | A− | B− |
| Ballybane 12 km | 67% | 9.9% | €61K | 22.9 min | B | C+ |
| Eyre Square 12.8 km | 69% | 9.2% | €57K | 24 min | B+ | A |
| Craughwell 12.8 km | 76% | 4.4% | €81K | 30.2 min | A | D− |
| Mervue 12.9 km | 68% | 10% | €50K | 22.3 min | B | 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 Ballinderreen, 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 Ballinderreen
What is the unemployment rate in Ballinderreen?
4% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1.1% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Ballinderreen get to work?
78% of commuters go by car or van, 1.8% walk, 0.6% cycle and 2.4% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 17% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Ballinderreen?
Trips to work, school or college take 27.4 minutes on average; 6% take an hour or more and 31% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Ballinderreen?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Ballinderreen’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Ballinderreen 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 Ballinderreen 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).
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).