Photo: Ruthkerins81 · CC BY-SA 4.0Earning a living in Cappamore
The average trip to work, school or college from Cappamore takes 25.7 minutes; for 4.4%, it takes an hour or more. Cappamore isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Jobs and income in Cappamore: what the figures say
Fewer people in work than most towns
61% of people aged 15 to 64 in Cappamore had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
13% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 4.8% 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.
Cappamore: jobs and income figures, no grade
Cappamore has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In work in Cappamore: 61% of the 15-to-64s
Of the 15 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Limerick, 7 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Of those in the labour force, 13% were out of work, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 4.8% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 72% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 46% 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.
In Cappamore, 31% of residents in work are in professional services, health and education
The second-largest is Commerce and trade, at 23% (against 26% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 1.2%.
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.
People living here who are in work, by the industry they work in, wherever their job is (2022 census).
How much households earn in Cappamore: €53,250
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Cappamore 5% below the median for County Limerick as a whole, €55,952. 6 of the county’s 15 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €47,640. The State median is €60,123, 13% above Cappamore’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
For 13% of Cappamore’s commuters, the trip is on foot, by bike, bus or train
The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 1.7%. Almost no one goes by bike, against 2.4% in the middle of Irish towns. Driving dominates: 78% go to work by car or van. Mainly from home: 8.9% of residents in work, next to 11% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
How residents in work get there (2022 census; people working mainly from home included).
About as much time on the road to work or school from Cappamore as in the middle of Irish towns
Of the 15 towns of County Limerick counted, 15 have a shorter average trip. The middle of County Limerick has 37% of trips under 15 minutes; here it is 33%. The commonest trip is 15 to 44 minutes, for 58% of trips, much as in the middle of County Limerick. The middle of County Limerick averages 23 minutes a trip.
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.
How long trips to work, school or college take, 2022 census (trips whose length wasn’t stated left out).
How many sign on in County Limerick: the count since 2019
11,541 people were signing on in County Limerick in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 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).
In work, studying or retired: 46% of Cappamore’s adults work
Compared with Irish towns, 7% are full-time students (against 11%), 22% 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.
Everyone aged 15 and over, by what they said they mainly do (2022 census), and the jobs of those in work.
Everyday places a walk away in Cappamore
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a food shop: 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.
Work next door to Cappamore
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cappamore | 61% | 13% | €53K | 25.7 min | — | — |
| Moroe 5.7 km | 68% | 7.4% | €69K | 26.1 min | B+ | C− |
| Caherconlish 9.2 km | 67% | 7.5% | €54K | 27 min | B− | C− |
| Newport 11.5 km | 69% | 7% | €63K | 22.8 min | A | C− |
| Annacotty 14.3 km | 71% | 6% | €90K | 22.6 min | A+ | C+ |
| Castleconnell 15.3 km | 70% | 7.6% | €60K | 25.5 min | A− | D |
| Castletroy 15.9 km | 55% | 6.7% | €75K | 22.5 min | B+ | 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 Cappamore, 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 Cappamore
What is the unemployment rate in Cappamore?
13% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 4.8% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Cappamore get to work?
78% of commuters go by car or van, 11% walk, 0% cycle and 1.7% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 8.9% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Cappamore?
Trips to work, school or college take 25.7 minutes on average; 4.4% take an hour or more and 33% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Cappamore?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Cappamore’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Cappamore 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 Cappamore 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).