Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainCastledermot at work: jobs, income and the commute
9.8% of the labour force in Castledermot was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Castledermot grades C+ for jobs and income. The trip to work, school or college averages 29.9 minutes from Castledermot, with 15% taking an hour or more.
What the numbers say about work in Castledermot
Work near the middle
67% of people aged 15 to 64 in Castledermot had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Unemployment near the middle
9.8% 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 ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
The Jobs & income grade for Castledermot: C+
Better than 38% of Irish towns once its four measures are combined.
Its strongest measure is the unemployment rate; its weakest, trip times.
Graded against Irish towns of 1,000 people or more; a shorter trip and less unemployment count in its favor.
Ranks start at 2,500 residents, so this grade has no rank.
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.
Where Castledermot’s residents work, by industry
The second-largest is Professional services, health and education, at 20% (against 25% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 2.6%.
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.
67% of Castledermot’s 15-to-64s are in work
Of the 14 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Kildare, 2 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
3.1% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 51% 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, 56% 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.
Before tax, the median household in Castledermot has €53,120
Before tax, 2022: lower than in 54% of Irish towns.
Castledermot’s median is 27% below County Kildare’s (€72,997). 13 of the county’s 14 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. After tax, the median is €46,229. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 13% above Castledermot’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Not by car: 9.7% of Castledermot’s commuters walk, cycle or ride the bus or train
Walking takes 6.6% of commuters and cycling 0.2%, where the middle of Irish towns has 10% and 2.4%. For 81% of commuters, the trip to work is by car or van. Against 11% in the middle of Irish towns, 8.4% work mainly from home. The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 1.7%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Castledermot spends longer getting to work or school than the middle of Irish towns
Short trips of under 15 minutes make up 40%, where the middle of County Kildare has 28%. The middle of County Kildare averages 32.6 minutes a trip. Among County Kildare’s 14 towns counted, 1 have shorter trips on average.
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.
12% fewer people sign on in County Kildare than in 2019
6,663 people were signing on in County Kildare in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 rose by 1%. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 69 months. 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).
What adults in Castledermot do: 56% are in work
The mix is close to Irish towns’ as a whole.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Castledermot grades B− for walkability
Better than 47% of Irish towns on two measures together.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a post office: 74%.
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.
The places around Castledermot, side by side
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castledermot | 67% | 9.8% | €53K | 29.9 min | C+ | B− |
| Carlow 9.7 km | 62% | 12% | €50K | 26.6 min | C− | C+ |
| Baltinglass 9.9 km | 63% | 12% | €52K | 34.5 min | D− | D |
| Rathvilly 10.1 km | 66% | 9.3% | €53K | 34 min | C | D− |
| Athy 13 km | 60% | 15% | €48K | 34.3 min | D− | C |
| Tullow 13.6 km | 64% | 12% | €47K | 25.1 min | C | C |
| Ballylinan 14.2 km | 67% | 9.9% | €62K | 32.3 min | C+ | 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 Castledermot, 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 Castledermot
What is the unemployment rate in Castledermot?
9.8% 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.
Is Castledermot a good place to find work?
Castledermot earns a C+ for jobs and income, better than 38% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together.
How do people in Castledermot get to work?
81% of commuters go by car or van, 6.6% walk, 0.2% cycle and 2.9% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 8.4% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Castledermot?
Trips to work, school or college take 29.9 minutes on average; 15% take an hour or more and 40% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Castledermot?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Castledermot’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Castledermot 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 Castledermot 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).
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