Photo: N Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0Work and commuting in Tullaghan
The trip to work, school or college averages 29.1 minutes from Tullaghan, with 11% taking an hour or more. Unemployment in Tullaghan stood at 15% at the 2022 census, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. There is no Jobs & income Grade for Tullaghan: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
The work numbers behind Tullaghan
More unemployment than most towns
15% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 6.5% 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 Tullaghan had €43,560 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.
The figures behind jobs and income in Tullaghan
Tullaghan has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
66% of Tullaghan’s 15-to-64s are in work
The middle of Irish towns is 68%.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 6.5% of people aged 15 and over. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 54% 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.
The middle household in Tullaghan: €43,560 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Tullaghan 4% below the median for County Leitrim as a whole, €45,267. Net of tax, it is €37,300. The State median is €60,123, 38% above Tullaghan’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Where the people of Tullaghan earn a living, by industry
The second-largest is Commerce and trade, at 21% (against 26% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 1.6%.
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.
Car-free commutes: 5.2% of workers in Tullaghan
For 84% of commuters, the trip to work is by car or van. The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 0.9%. The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking and 2.4% cycling; here it is 3.4% and 0.9%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The trip from Tullaghan to work or school is a typical one for Irish towns
Trips of 15 to 44 minutes are the most common, at 51% (middle of County Leitrim: 35%). Under 15 minutes: 35% of trips, next to 52% in the middle of County Leitrim.
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 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%. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 30 months. 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).
How Tullaghan spends its days: 54% of adults in work
Compared with Irish towns, 6% are full-time students, 18% are retired and 7.8% are long-term sick or disabled (against 4.7%).
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Getting around Tullaghan on foot
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.
How Tullaghan compares with the places nearby
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tullaghan | 66% | 15% | €44K | 29.1 min | — | — |
| Bundoran 3.4 km | 63% | 14% | €37K | 21.5 min | C− | C+ |
| Kinlough 3.6 km | 62% | 13% | €42K | 24.9 min | D | C+ |
| Ballyshannon 9.8 km | 62% | 15% | €37K | 21.1 min | C− | 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 Tullaghan, 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 Tullaghan
What is the unemployment rate in Tullaghan?
15% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 6.5% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Tullaghan get to work?
84% of commuters go by car or van, 3.4% walk, 0.9% cycle and 0.9% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 9.4% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Tullaghan?
Trips to work, school or college take 29.1 minutes on average; 11% take an hour or more and 35% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Tullaghan?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Tullaghan’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Tullaghan 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 Tullaghan 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).