Photo: T Michael Weddle · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs and the daily commute in Kildimo
Travel time from Kildimo to work, school or college: 26.7 minutes on average, an hour or longer for 4.6%. Out of work at the 2022 census: 4.6% of the labour force in Kildimo (the middle of Irish towns: 9.2%). No Jobs & income Grade is given to Kildimo: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
The work numbers behind Kildimo
Less unemployment than most towns
4.6% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 1.6% 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 Kildimo had €74,300 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 Kildimo has no Jobs & income Grade
Kildimo has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Kildimo, 72% of the working-age population has a job
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 1.6% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 57% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 58% 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.
How much households earn in Kildimo: €74,300
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Kildimo 33% above the median for County Limerick as a whole, €55,952. Of the county’s 15 towns of 2,500 or more, 2 have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €61,520. The State median is €60,123, 19% below Kildimo’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Jobs held by Kildimo’s residents, by industry
Professional services, health and education is the second-largest at 23%, against 25% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 0%.
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.
How Kildimo gets to work: 1.9% without a car
Working mainly from home: 8.3% here, 11% in the middle of Irish towns. The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 0.5%. 1.4% walk to work, against 10% in the middle of Irish towns. Driving dominates: 90% go to work by car or van.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The trip from Kildimo to work or school is a typical one for Irish towns
The commonest trip is 15 to 44 minutes, for 67% of trips; the middle of County Limerick has 57%. 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. Trips of under 15 minutes are 24% of the total, 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.
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).
Kildimo at work: 58% of adults have a job
The mix is close to Irish towns’ as a whole.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
How much of Kildimo can walk to everyday places
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.
Jobs near Kildimo: the places around it
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kildimo | 72% | 4.6% | €74K | 26.7 min | — | — |
| Adare 6.8 km | 75% | 5.9% | €70K | 25 min | A+ | B |
| Shannon 10.5 km | 68% | 9.1% | €52K | 18.4 min | B+ | C+ |
| Dooradoyle 10.8 km | 72% | 6.1% | €72K | 23.5 min | A | B− |
| Askeaton 11.3 km | 55% | 15% | €51K | 22.5 min | C− | C− |
| Caherdavin 11.7 km | 61% | 10% | €52K | 24.6 min | C | C |
| Ballinacurra 11.8 km | 67% | 8.5% | €63K | 23 min | B+ | 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 Kildimo, 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 Kildimo
What is the unemployment rate in Kildimo?
4.6% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1.6% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Kildimo get to work?
90% of commuters go by car or van, 1.4% walk, 0% cycle and 0.5% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 8.3% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Kildimo?
Trips to work, school or college take 26.7 minutes on average; 4.6% take an hour or more and 24% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Kildimo?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Kildimo’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Kildimo 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 Kildimo 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).