Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs and earnings in Ballingarry, and the trip to work
4.7% of the labour force in Ballingarry was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. The Jobs & income Grade leaves out Ballingarry: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What sets Ballingarry apart on jobs and income
Work near the middle
73% of people aged 15 to 64 in Ballingarry had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
4.7% 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 ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
Work and pay in Ballingarry, ungraded
Ballingarry has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Jobs for 73% of people aged 15 to 64 in Ballingarry
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, 63% had been out of work that long. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 61% 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.
What the people of Ballingarry do for work
Commerce and trade is the second-largest at 20%, against 26% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 3.8%.
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.
Ballingarry at the median: €58,640 a household
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Ballingarry 5% above the median for County Limerick as a whole, €55,952. Of the county’s 15 towns of 2,500 or more, 5 have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €50,420. The State median is €60,123, 3% above Ballingarry’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Walk, cycle, bus or train: the choice of 9% of Ballingarry’s commuters
Walking takes 7.4% of commuters and cycling 0.4%, where the middle of Irish towns has 10% and 2.4%. For 82% of commuters, the trip to work is by car or van. By bus: 1.2% of commuters, next to 6% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
28 minutes from Ballingarry, close to the 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns
For the middle of County Limerick, the average trip is 23 minutes. Among County Limerick’s 15 towns counted, 15 have shorter trips on average. Against 37% in the middle of County Limerick, 36% of trips take under 15 minutes. Trips of an hour or longer make up 8.3%, where the middle of County Limerick has 3.9%. The middle of County Limerick has 57% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 50%, 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.
8% fewer people sign on in County Limerick than in 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 saw its highest month in July 2019: 14,661 people signing on, 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).
Jobs, studies and retirement in Ballingarry: 61% in work
Compared with Irish towns, 6.7% are long-term sick or disabled.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Everyday places a walk away in Ballingarry
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Of the everyday places, a pharmacy 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.
The places around Ballingarry, side by side
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballingarry | 73% | 4.7% | €59K | 28 min | — | — |
| Rathkeale 7.3 km | 47% | 20% | €34K | 22.7 min | D− | B+ |
| Adare 10.8 km | 75% | 5.9% | €70K | 25 min | A+ | B |
| Croom 11.3 km | 66% | 9.6% | €56K | 20.9 min | B | B+ |
| Newcastle West 13.3 km | 67% | 9.3% | €49K | 24.9 min | B− | B− |
| Askeaton 16.3 km | 55% | 15% | €51K | 22.5 min | C− | C− |
| Charleville 18 km | 63% | 11% | €43K | 24.7 min | C | C |
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 Ballingarry, 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 Ballingarry
What is the unemployment rate in Ballingarry?
4.7% 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.
How do people in Ballingarry get to work?
82% of commuters go by car or van, 7.4% walk, 0.4% cycle and 1.2% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 9% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Ballingarry?
Trips to work, school or college take 28 minutes on average; 8.3% take an hour or more and 36% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Ballingarry?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Ballingarry’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Ballingarry 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 Ballingarry 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).
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