Photo: john salter · CC BY-SA 2.0Where Kilfinnane earns its living
Unemployment in Kilfinnane stood at 9.1% at the 2022 census, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. 11% of trips from Kilfinnane last an hour or longer; the mean is 27.7 minutes. Kilfinnane has no Jobs & income Grade: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Kilfinnane and work: the main findings
Work near the middle
65% of people aged 15 to 64 in Kilfinnane 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 Kilfinnane had €41,240 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.
Work and pay in Kilfinnane, ungraded
Kilfinnane has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Half the households here have more than €41,240 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Kilfinnane’s median is 26% below County Limerick’s (€55,952). 12 of the county’s 15 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. After tax, the median is €37,380. The State median is €60,123, 46% above Kilfinnane’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Where the people of Kilfinnane earn a living, by industry
The second-largest is Professional services, health and education, at 22% (against 25% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 2.3%.
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.
The share of 15-to-64s in work in Kilfinnane: 65%
Of the 15 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Limerick, 9 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, 61% 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, 49% 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.
Leaving the car at home: 10% of commuters in Kilfinnane
For 78% of commuters, the trip to work is by car or van. The bus takes 1.4% of commuters, against 6% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The trip from Kilfinnane to work or school is a typical one for Irish towns
The middle of County Limerick has 37% of trips under 15 minutes; here it is 46%. Across County Limerick, the middle town’s trips average 23 minutes. 15 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.
People signing on in County Limerick, against 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: 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).
49% of people 16 and over in Kilfinnane are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 20% are retired (against 15%) and 6.4% 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 Kilfinnane
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.
Neighbouring places to Kilfinnane, compared
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilfinnane | 65% | 9.1% | €41K | 27.7 min | — | — |
| Kilmallock 8.8 km | 63% | 13% | €40K | 23.1 min | C− | B |
| Charleville 14.5 km | 63% | 11% | €43K | 24.7 min | C | C |
| Mitchelstown 16.9 km | 67% | 11% | €44K | 23.8 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 Kilfinnane, 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 Kilfinnane
What is the unemployment rate in Kilfinnane?
9.1% 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 Kilfinnane get to work?
78% of commuters go by car or van, 8.3% walk, 0.4% cycle and 1.4% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 10% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Kilfinnane?
Trips to work, school or college take 27.7 minutes on average; 11% take an hour or more and 46% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Kilfinnane?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Kilfinnane’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Kilfinnane 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 Kilfinnane 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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