Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0How Drumod works: jobs, income and commuting
Unemployment in Drumod stood at 10% at the 2022 census, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. The average trip to work, school or college from Drumod takes 33.6 minutes, and 16% take an hour or more. Drumod has no Jobs & income Grade: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What stands out about work in Drumod
Work near the middle
72% of people aged 15 to 64 in Drumod 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 33.6 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 16% 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.
Why Drumod has no Jobs & income Grade
Drumod has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Drumod spends longer getting to work or school than the middle of Irish towns
Under 15 minutes: 25% of trips, next to 52% in the middle of County Leitrim. The middle of County Leitrim has 35% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 53%, the commonest length.
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.
Where Drumod’s residents work, by industry
The second-largest is Manufacturing, at 19% (against 11% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 1.8%.
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.
Drumod at work: 72% of people aged 15 to 64
The middle of Irish towns is 68%.
3.2% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 48% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 58% 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 Drumod: €52,300 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
After tax, the median is €44,880. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 15% above Drumod’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
6.9% of people travelling to work from Drumod walk, cycle or take the bus or train
The car or van takes 84% of commuters; the middle of County Leitrim has 72%. Home is the main workplace for 8.9%, where the middle of Irish towns has 11%. 3% go by train, DART or Luas, against 0.9% in the middle of County Leitrim.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The Live Register count in County Leitrim since 2019
1,436 people were signing on in County Leitrim in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 fell by 5%. For 30 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. Its lowest month since 2019 was February 2022, at 1,284. County Leitrim: signing on peaked in July 2023 at 1,857, 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).
58% of people 16 and over in Drumod are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 6.3% are full-time students (against 11%) and 19% are retired (against 15%).
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Within 800 m of home in Drumod
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a pharmacy: 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.
Jobs near Drumod: the places around it
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drumod | 72% | 10% | €52K | 33.6 min | — | — |
| Mohill 7.9 km | 63% | 16% | €38K | 26.6 min | D− | C |
| Drumlish 10.9 km | 65% | 11% | €47K | 28.3 min | C | C |
| Carrick-On-Shannon 14.6 km | 68% | 11% | €46K | 23.9 min | C+ | C+ |
| Longford 16.7 km | 58% | 18% | €40K | 24 min | D− | B |
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 Drumod, 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 Drumod
What is the unemployment rate in Drumod?
10% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.2% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Drumod get to work?
84% of commuters go by car or van, 2.3% walk, 0.3% cycle and 4.3% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 8.9% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Drumod?
Trips to work, school or college take 33.6 minutes on average; 16% take an hour or more and 25% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Drumod?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Drumod’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Drumod 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 Drumod 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).