Photo: Padraigobrian · CC BY-SA 3.0Work and commuting in Ballylanders
People heading out of Ballylanders for work or study spend 29.5 minutes travelling on average; 12% spend 60 minutes or longer. At the 2022 census, 7.4% of the labour force in Ballylanders had no job; the middle of Irish towns is 9.2%. Ballylanders has no Jobs & income Grade: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
The work figures that set Ballylanders apart
Work near the middle
69% of people aged 15 to 64 in Ballylanders had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Ballylanders had €44,500 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.
Why Ballylanders has no Jobs & income Grade
Ballylanders has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Household income in Ballylanders: €44,500 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Ballylanders’s median is 20% below County Limerick’s (€55,952). Of the county’s 15 towns of 2,500 or more, 10 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €39,240. The State median is €60,123, 35% above Ballylanders’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
What residents of Ballylanders work in
Commerce and trade is the second-largest at 21%, against 26% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is public administration, at 2.2%.
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.
Work for 69% of 15-to-64s in Ballylanders
Of the 15 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Limerick, 12 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
3% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 73% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 51% 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.
Ballylanders commutes on foot, by bike or bus for 14% of trips
For 74% of commuters, the trip to work is by car or van. Working mainly from home is about as common as in the middle of Irish towns, at 11%. Hardly anyone takes the bus or train to work; the middle of Irish towns has 6% by bus and 0.9% by rail.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The trip from Ballylanders to work or school is a typical one for Irish towns
Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 40%, against 57% in the middle of County Limerick. In the middle of County Limerick, the trip averages 23 minutes. 15 of the 15 towns of County Limerick counted have a shorter average trip. Short trips are about as common as in the middle of County Limerick, at 37%.
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.
County Limerick on the Live Register 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).
How Ballylanders spends its days: 51% of adults in work
Compared with Irish towns, 19% are retired (against 15%) and 11% 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.
The everyday places near home in Ballylanders
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
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 work picture around Ballylanders
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballylanders | 69% | 7.4% | €45K | 29.5 min | — | — |
| Mitchelstown 12.7 km | 67% | 11% | €44K | 23.8 min | C+ | B |
| Kilmallock 16.1 km | 63% | 13% | €40K | 23.1 min | C− | B |
| Tipperary 17.1 km | 59% | 15% | €37K | 22.8 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 Ballylanders, 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 Ballylanders
What is the unemployment rate in Ballylanders?
7.4% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Ballylanders get to work?
74% of commuters go by car or van, 14% walk, 0% cycle and 0% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 11% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Ballylanders?
Trips to work, school or college take 29.5 minutes on average; 12% take an hour or more and 37% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Ballylanders?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Ballylanders’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Ballylanders 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 Ballylanders 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).