Photo: Suzanne Mischyshyn · CC BY-SA 2.0Adare has a larger share of its working-age people in jobs than 94% of Irish towns
Trips to work, school or college from Adare take 25 minutes on average, and 5% take an hour or more. Out of work at the 2022 census: 5.9% of the labour force in Adare (the middle of Irish towns: 9.2%). The Jobs & income grade for Adare is A+.
Adare and work: the main findings
More people in work than most towns
75% of people aged 15 to 64 in Adare had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
5.9% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 1.9% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
The median household in Adare had €69,620 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 Jobs & income grade for Adare: A+
Better than 96% of Irish towns once its four measures are combined.
Its strongest measure is the share of 15-to-64s in work; 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.
How many in Adare have a job: 75% of 15-to-64s
All 15 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Limerick have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 1.9% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 54% had been out of work that long. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 57% 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.
Adare at the median: €69,620 a household
Before tax, 2022: higher than in 74% of Irish towns.
That puts Adare 24% above the median for County Limerick as a whole, €55,952. 3 of the county’s 15 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €58,470. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 14% below Adare’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
In Adare, 27% of residents in work are in professional services, health and education
Commerce and trade is the second-largest at 21%, against 26% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 1.4%.
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.
Without a car, 15% of Adare’s commuters get to work
On foot 14%, by bike 0.6%: the middle of Irish towns has 10% and 2.4%. Most go by car or van: 73% of commuters. 12% work mainly from home, about the same as in the middle of Irish towns. By bus: 0.8% of commuters, next to 6% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Shorter than the middle of Irish towns: trips from Adare average 25 minutes
Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 58%, about the same as in the middle of County Limerick. For the middle of County Limerick, the average trip is 23 minutes. 15 of the 15 towns of County Limerick counted have a shorter average trip. 34% of trips take under 15 minutes, against 37% in the middle of County Limerick.
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.
Signing on in County Limerick since 2019
11,541 people were signing on in County Limerick in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count fell by 1%. Its lowest month since 2019 was March 2025, at 10,525. County Limerick: signing on peaked in July 2019 at 14,661, 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).
In work, studying or retired: 57% of Adare’s adults work
Compared with Irish towns, 22% 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.
The walkability of Adare: B
Better than 57% of Irish towns on two measures together.
Of the everyday places, a food shop is the one the fewest residents have within 800 m (86%).
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 Adare, side by side
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adare | 75% | 5.9% | €70K | 25 min | A+ | B |
| Croom 7 km | 66% | 9.6% | €56K | 20.9 min | B | B+ |
| Rathkeale 10.6 km | 47% | 20% | €34K | 22.7 min | D− | B+ |
| Dooradoyle 12.4 km | 72% | 6.1% | €72K | 23.5 min | A | B− |
| Askeaton 13 km | 55% | 15% | €51K | 22.5 min | C− | C− |
| Ballinacurra 14.2 km | 67% | 8.5% | €63K | 23 min | B+ | B+ |
| Dock 15.3 km | 63% | 13% | €42K | 23.8 min | C− | 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 Adare, 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 Adare
What is the unemployment rate in Adare?
5.9% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1.9% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Adare a good place to find work?
Adare earns an A+ for jobs and income, better than 96% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together.
How do people in Adare get to work?
73% of commuters go by car or van, 14% walk, 0.6% cycle and 1% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 12% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Adare?
Trips to work, school or college take 25 minutes on average; 5% take an hour or more and 34% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Adare?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Adare’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Adare 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 Adare 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).
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).