Work, pay and getting to work in Ballyroe
Getting to work, school or college from Ballyroe takes 35 minutes on average, with 17% taking an hour or more. At the 2022 census, 12% of the labour force in Ballyroe had no job; the middle of Irish towns is 9.2%. The Jobs & income Grade leaves out Ballyroe: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
The work figures that set Ballyroe apart
Fewer people in work than most towns
54% of people aged 15 to 64 in Ballyroe had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 35 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 17% 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.
Ballyroe: jobs and income figures, no grade
Ballyroe has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Ballyroe, 54% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
None of the 14 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Kildare has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 4.8% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 77% 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.
A longer trip than the middle of Irish towns: 35 minutes from Ballyroe
In County Kildare, 14 of 14 towns counted average a shorter trip. 25% of trips take under 15 minutes, against 28% in the middle of County Kildare. Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 52%, against 49% in the middle of County Kildare. The middle of County Kildare averages 32.6 minutes a 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.
Half the households here have more than €57,430 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Ballyroe 21% below the median for County Kildare as a whole, €72,997. Of the county’s 14 towns of 2,500 or more, 13 have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €49,900. The State median is €60,123, 5% above Ballyroe’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
4.5% of commuters in Ballyroe go on foot, by bike or by public transport
The middle of Irish towns has 11% working mainly from home; here it is 1.5%. Hardly anyone takes the bus or train to work; the middle of Irish towns has 6% by bus and 0.9% by rail. Most go by car or van: 92% of commuters.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
County Kildare on the Live Register since 2019
6,663 people were signing on in County Kildare in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count rose by 1%. For 69 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. Its lowest month since 2019 was November 2023, at 5,976. County Kildare: signing on peaked in July 2020 at 8,793, 12% 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).
Shops, schools and services on foot in Ballyroe
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a food shop: 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 Ballyroe: jobs, pay and the commute
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyroe | 54% | 12% | €57K | 35 min | — | — |
| Athy 4.4 km | 60% | 15% | €48K | 34.3 min | D− | C |
| Ballylinan 7.9 km | 67% | 9.9% | €62K | 32.3 min | C+ | D− |
| Castledermot 8.5 km | 67% | 9.8% | €53K | 29.9 min | C+ | B− |
| Carlow 14.3 km | 62% | 12% | €50K | 26.6 min | C− | C+ |
| Stradbally 15.2 km | 62% | 11% | €53K | 30 min | C− | C− |
| Baltinglass 15.7 km | 63% | 12% | €52K | 34.5 min | D− | D |
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 Ballyroe, 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 Ballyroe
What is the unemployment rate in Ballyroe?
12% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 4.8% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Ballyroe get to work?
92% of commuters go by car or van, 4.5% walk, 0% cycle and 0% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 1.5% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Ballyroe?
Trips to work, school or college take 35 minutes on average; 17% take an hour or more and 25% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Ballyroe?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Ballyroe’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Ballyroe 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 Ballyroe 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).