How Kilteely works: jobs, income and commuting
At the 2022 census, 14% of the labour force in Kilteely had no job, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. From Kilteely, trips to work, school or college average 32.2 minutes, with 7.8% taking an hour or more. Kilteely has no Jobs & income Grade: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
The work figures that set Kilteely apart
Fewer people in work than most towns
56% of people aged 15 to 64 in Kilteely had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
14% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 3.5% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 32.2 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 7.8% 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 Kilteely: the figures
Kilteely has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Kilteely, 56% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Of the 15 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Limerick, 4 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
3.5% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 50% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 44% 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.
Work and school are further off in time from Kilteely than for the middle of Irish towns
The trip from the middle of County Limerick averages 23 minutes. Among County Limerick’s 15 towns counted, 15 have shorter trips on average. Trips of under 15 minutes are 22% of the total, against 37% in the middle of County Limerick. Trips of 15 to 44 minutes are the most common, at 67% (middle of County Limerick: 57%).
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.
The median household in Kilteely has €63,050 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Kilteely’s median is 13% above County Limerick’s (€55,952). Of the county’s 15 towns of 2,500 or more, 3 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €54,010. The State median is €60,123, 5% below Kilteely’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Out of the car: 6.9% of Kilteely’s commuters
88% of commuters go by car or van. Home is the main workplace for 5.4%, where the middle of Irish towns has 11%. The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 1.4%. The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking and 2.4% cycling; here it is 4.1% and 1.4%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
County Limerick on the Live Register 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: 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).
Within 800 m of home in Kilteely
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Of the everyday places, a food shop 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.
Work in the places around Kilteely
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilteely | 56% | 14% | €63K | 32.2 min | — | — |
| Caherconlish 9.4 km | 67% | 7.5% | €54K | 27 min | B− | C− |
| Moroe 14.4 km | 68% | 7.4% | €69K | 26.1 min | B+ | C− |
| Tipperary 17 km | 59% | 15% | €37K | 22.8 min | D | B |
| Kilmallock 18 km | 63% | 13% | €40K | 23.1 min | C− | B |
| Annacotty 18.3 km | 71% | 6% | €90K | 22.6 min | A+ | C+ |
| Castletroy 19.2 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 Kilteely, 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 Kilteely
What is the unemployment rate in Kilteely?
14% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.5% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Kilteely get to work?
88% of commuters go by car or van, 4.1% walk, 1.4% cycle and 1.4% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 5.4% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Kilteely?
Trips to work, school or college take 32.2 minutes on average; 7.8% take an hour or more and 22% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Kilteely?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Kilteely’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Kilteely 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 Kilteely 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).