Photo: patrick connolly · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Errill
16% of the labour force in Errill was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Getting to work, school or college from Errill takes 30.3 minutes on average, with 11% taking an hour or more. No Jobs & income Grade is given to Errill: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What the numbers say about work in Errill
Fewer people in work than most towns
60% of people aged 15 to 64 in Errill had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
16% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 7.3% 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.
Errill has no Jobs & income Grade
Errill has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Errill at work: 60% of people aged 15 to 64
None of the 3 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Laois has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
7.3% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 73% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 53% 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.
Errill households: €53,460 a year at the median
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Errill’s median is 10% below County Laois’s (€59,521). One of the county’s 3 towns of 2,500 people or more has a higher median. After tax, the median is €49,210. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 12% above Errill’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Without a car, 6.4% of Errill’s commuters get to work
3.8% walk and 1.3% cycle to work, against 10% and 2.4% in the middle of Irish towns. The car or van carries most commuters: 82%. Buses carry 1.3% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 6%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Against the middle of Irish towns, Errill has the longer trip to work or school
31% of trips take under 15 minutes, against 37% in the middle of County Laois. 51% of trips take 15 to 44 minutes, where the middle of County Laois has 41%.
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 Live Register count in County Laois since 2019
3,032 people were signing on in County Laois in September 2026. For 72 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. Its lowest month since 2019 was November 2025, at 2,876. County Laois: signing on peaked in July 2019 at 4,236, 9% 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).
Everyday places within walking distance in Errill
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Of the everyday places, a food shop is the one the fewest residents have within 800 m (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.
Errill and its neighbours: work and income
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Errill | 60% | 16% | €53K | 30.3 min | — | — |
| Rathdowney 6 km | 65% | 12% | €46K | 30.9 min | D | B+ |
| Templemore 12.4 km | 67% | 8.6% | €43K | 24.3 min | B− | B+ |
| Roscrea 13.1 km | 63% | 13% | €44K | 23 min | C | B− |
| Urlingford 16.9 km | 58% | 18% | €45K | 23.7 min | D | 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 Errill, 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 Errill
What is the unemployment rate in Errill?
16% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 7.3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Errill get to work?
82% of commuters go by car or van, 3.8% walk, 1.3% cycle and 1.3% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 8.9% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Errill?
Trips to work, school or college take 30.3 minutes on average; 11% take an hour or more and 31% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Errill?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Errill’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Errill 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 Errill 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).