Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0Work and commuting in Tarbert
The average trip to work, school or college from Tarbert takes 25 minutes, and 11% take an hour or more. Jobs and income go ungraded in Tarbert: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Work in Tarbert: the figures worth knowing
More unemployment than most towns
12% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 3.1% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Tarbert had €44,100 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 ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
No Jobs & income Grade for Tarbert
Tarbert has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
The share of 15-to-64s in work in Tarbert: 68%
Of the 5 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Kerry, 3 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Unemployment, counted the census way, was 12% of the labour force; the middle of Irish towns is 9.2%. 3.1% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 53% 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, 43% 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 Tarbert: €44,100 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Tarbert’s median is 9% below County Kerry’s (€48,320). Of the county’s 5 towns of 2,500 or more, 2 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €39,600. The State median is €60,123, 36% above Tarbert’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
What Tarbert does for a living
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).
Out of the car: 12% of Tarbert’s commuters
Almost no one goes by bus or rail, against 6% and 0.9% in the middle of Irish towns. Cycling takes 1.1% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 2.4%. Most go by car or van: 76% of commuters.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
How residents in work get there (2022 census; people working mainly from home included).
A shorter trip than the middle of Irish towns: 25 minutes from Tarbert
5 of the 5 towns of County Kerry counted have a shorter average trip. Short trips of under 15 minutes make up 51%, where the middle of County Kerry has 53%. For the middle of County Kerry, the average trip is 21.7 minutes.
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).
County Kerry on the Live Register since 2019
4,870 people were signing on in County Kerry in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 fell by 7%. For 30 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. County Kerry: signing on peaked in April 2020 at 8,848, 26% 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 29% of adults in Tarbert
Compared with Irish towns, 7.5% are full-time students and 43% are in work (against 57%).
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.
Walking to the shops, school and post office in Tarbert
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.
Work next door to Tarbert
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarbert | 68% | 12% | €44K | 25 min | — | — |
| Kilrush 10.6 km | 56% | 20% | €34K | 20.6 min | D | B |
| Listowel 15.4 km | 61% | 14% | €40K | 22.3 min | D | 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 Tarbert, 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 Tarbert
What is the unemployment rate in Tarbert?
12% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.1% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Tarbert get to work?
76% of commuters go by car or van, 11% walk, 1.1% cycle and 0% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 12% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Tarbert?
Trips to work, school or college take 25 minutes on average; 11% take an hour or more and 51% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Tarbert?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Tarbert’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Tarbert 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 Tarbert 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).