Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of people aged 15 to 64 are in work in Galvone than in 98% of Irish towns
Unemployment in Galvone stood at 21% at the 2022 census (the middle of Irish towns: 9.2%). On jobs and income together, Galvone grades D, #13 of 15 in County Limerick. Trips to work, school or college from Galvone take 20.9 minutes on average, with 2.7% taking an hour or more.
What sets Galvone apart on jobs and income
Fewer people in work than most towns
55% of people aged 15 to 64 in Galvone had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
21% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 8% 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 Galvone had €41,000 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 ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 20.9 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 2.7% take an hour or more. The trip to work ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
Jobs and income in Galvone earn D
Better than 10% of Irish towns once its four measures are combined, #13 of 15 in County Limerick.
Its strongest measure is trip times; its weakest, the unemployment rate.
Graded against Irish towns of 1,000 people or more; a shorter trip and less unemployment count in its favor.
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.
The share in work in Galvone: 55% of 15-to-64s
Of the 14 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Limerick, 2 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 8% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 65% had been out of work that long. 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.
The middle household in Galvone: €41,000 a year
Before tax, 2022: lower than in 89% of Irish towns.
That puts Galvone 27% below the median for County Limerick as a whole, €55,952. Of the county’s 14 other towns of 2,500 or more, 12 have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €37,820. The State median is €60,123, 47% above Galvone’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Against the middle of Irish towns, Galvone has the shorter trip to work or school
Against 37% in the middle of County Limerick, 42% of trips take under 15 minutes. 53% of trips take 15 to 44 minutes, where the middle of County Limerick has 57%. Across County Limerick, the middle town’s trips average 23 minutes. 1 of the 15 towns of County Limerick counted have a shorter average 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.
Jobs held by Galvone’s residents, by industry
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.
Within Galvone, incomes range from €33K to €45K
Median gross household income in each of the 4 electoral divisions where 50 or more of Galvone’s households live: the highest is 1.3 times the lowest. The share of people aged 15 to 64 in work runs from 38% in Galvone B to 65% in Market.
| Electoral division | Households here | Median income (whole division) | Aged 15–64 in work (here) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market | 899 | €40,101 | 65% |
| Galvone A | 550 | €44,125 | 55% |
| St. Laurence | 314 | €44,631 | 40% |
| Galvone B | 258 | €33,074 | 38% |
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022 (GPIIA01): each division’s median covers all its households, including any outside Galvone; households and the share in work are Galvone’s own part (Census 2022, CSO SAPS).
Not by car: 40% of Galvone’s commuters walk, cycle or ride the bus or train
The middle of County Limerick has 15%; here, 27% walk. 51% go by car or van, against 65% in the middle of County Limerick. Mainly from home: 8.5% of residents in work, next to 11% in the middle of Irish towns. The bus takes 9.4% of commuters, against 6% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Limerick city on the Live Register since 2019
4,943 people were signing on in Limerick city in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 fell by 2%. For 37 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. Its lowest month since 2019 was March 2025, at 4,514. Limerick city saw its highest month in July 2019: 6,280 people signing on, 11% 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).
Work, study, retirement: 46% of adults in Galvone are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 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.
Galvone earns A− for walkability
Better than 84% of Irish towns on two measures together, #4 of 15 in County Limerick.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a post office: 68%.
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 Galvone compares with Irish towns of 3,800 to 7,300 people
| # | Town | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ballinlough County Cork | 5,435 | 74% | 4.8% | €72K | A+ |
| 2 | Carrigtwohill County Cork | 5,568 | 73% | 5.5% | €71K | A+ |
| 3 | Oranmore County Galway | 5,819 | 79% | 5.9% | €80K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 52 | Newcastle West County Limerick | 7,209 | 67% | 9.3% | €49K | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 65 | Garryowen County Limerick | 5,428 | 61% | 11% | €51K | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 68 | Rathbane County Limerick | 4,111 | 58% | 14% | €54K | C |
| … | ||||||
| 88 | Kells County Meath | 6,608 | 64% | 12% | €52K | D |
| 89 | Fair Hill County Cork | 4,910 | 59% | 14% | €45K | D |
| 90 | Galvone County Limerick | 5,412 | 55% | 21% | €41K | D |
| 91 | Carrick-on-Suir County Tipperary | 5,752 | 59% | 14% | €39K | D |
| 92 | Poleberry County Waterford | 4,875 | 55% | 17% | €32K | D |
| … | ||||||
| 99 | Courtown County Wexford | 4,365 | 60% | 15% | €44K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Galvone, and others in County Limerick.
Jobs and income in the places around Galvone
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galvone | 55% | 21% | €41K | 20.9 min | D | A− |
| Prospect and Newtown Pery 0.8 km | 50% | 19% | €35K | 21 min | D | A |
| Garryowen 0.9 km | 61% | 11% | €51K | 22.1 min | C+ | B |
| Limerick City Centre 1.1 km | 67% | 15% | €41K | 23.1 min | C | A+ |
| Rathbane 1.2 km | 58% | 14% | €54K | 22.1 min | C | C+ |
| Dock 1.4 km | 63% | 13% | €42K | 23.8 min | C− | A |
| Corbally and King's Island 1.6 km | 58% | 15% | €46K | 23 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 Galvone, 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 Galvone
What is the unemployment rate in Galvone?
21% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 8% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Galvone a good place to find work?
Galvone earns a D for jobs and income, better than 10% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together, #13 of 15 in County Limerick.
How do people in Galvone get to work?
51% of commuters go by car or van, 27% walk, 3.1% cycle and 9.7% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 8.5% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Galvone?
Trips to work, school or college take 20.9 minutes on average; 2.7% take an hour or more and 42% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Galvone?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Galvone’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Galvone 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 Galvone 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).