Making a living in Killimor
Unemployment in Killimor stood at 12% at the 2022 census (the middle of Irish towns: 9.2%). The trip to work, school or college averages 26.5 minutes from Killimor; for 12%, it takes an hour or more. No Jobs & income Grade is given to Killimor: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Where Killimor stands out on work
Work near the middle
73% of people aged 15 to 64 in Killimor had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Unemployment near the middle
12% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 3.7% 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.
Killimor isn’t graded for jobs and income
Killimor has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
What residents of Killimor work in
Commerce and trade is the second-largest at 23%, against 26% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is public administration, at 3.2%.
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.
In Killimor, 73% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Of the 20 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Galway, 19 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 3.7% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 59% had been out of work that long. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 47% 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 Killimor: €52,540 at the median
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Of the county’s 20 towns of 2,500 or more, 12 have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €47,630. The State median is €60,123, 14% above Killimor’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: 19% of commuters in Killimor
Mainly from home: 6.4% of residents in work, next to 11% in the middle of Irish towns. The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 1.6%. 17% walk to work, against 10% in the middle of Irish towns. Most go by car or van: 72% of commuters.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
No quicker, no slower: the trip to work or school from Killimor against the middle of Irish towns
Trips of under 15 minutes are 52% of the total, against 37% in the middle of County Galway. The trip from the middle of County Galway averages 23.8 minutes. In County Galway, 19 of 20 towns counted average a shorter 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.
Signing on in County Galway: the count since 2019
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 saw its highest month in July 2019: 16,574 people signing on, 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).
Work, study, retirement: 47% of adults in Killimor are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 5.6% are full-time students (against 11%), 21% are retired (against 15%) and 16% 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.
What is within walking distance in Killimor
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
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.
Neighbouring places to Killimor, compared
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Killimor | 73% | 12% | €53K | 26.5 min | — | — |
| Portumna 9.7 km | 63% | 13% | €41K | 28.2 min | D | C+ |
| Ballinasloe 18.4 km | 60% | 15% | €50K | 23 min | C− | C |
| Loughrea 19 km | 69% | 9.1% | €50K | 25.7 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 Killimor, 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 Killimor
What is the unemployment rate in Killimor?
12% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Killimor get to work?
72% of commuters go by car or van, 17% walk, 0% cycle and 2.4% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 6.4% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Killimor?
Trips to work, school or college take 26.5 minutes on average; 12% take an hour or more and 52% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Killimor?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Killimor’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Killimor 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 Killimor 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).