Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0How Mountcollins works: jobs, income and commuting
At the 2022 census, 10% of the labour force in Mountcollins had no job, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Getting to work, school or college from Mountcollins takes 35.1 minutes on average, with 18% taking an hour or more. Jobs and income go ungraded in Mountcollins: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What the numbers say about work in Mountcollins
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Mountcollins had €34,520 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 ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 35.1 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 18% 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.
Mountcollins isn’t graded for jobs and income
Mountcollins has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Before tax, the median household in Mountcollins has €34,520
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Mountcollins 38% below the median for County Limerick as a whole, €55,952. Every town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. Net of tax, it is €32,460. The State median is €60,123, 74% above Mountcollins’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
The trip to work or school is longer from Mountcollins than in the middle of Irish towns
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. Against 37% in the middle of County Limerick, 22% of trips take under 15 minutes. Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 54%, against 57% 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.
In work in Mountcollins: 71% of the 15-to-64s
Of the 15 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Limerick, 14 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 3.1% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 61% 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.
For 3.6% of Mountcollins’ commuters, the trip is on foot, by bike, bus or train
Driving dominates: 92% go to work by car or van. The bus takes 1.2% of commuters, against 6% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The monthly count of people signing on in County Limerick
11,541 people were signing on in County Limerick in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count 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).
Walking to the shops, school and post office in Mountcollins
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.
Jobs and income in the places around Mountcollins
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountcollins | 71% | 10% | €35K | 35.1 min | — | — |
| Abbeyfeale 8.8 km | 60% | 16% | €40K | 27.3 min | D− | D |
| Newcastle West 18.4 km | 67% | 9.3% | €49K | 24.9 min | B− | B− |
| Castleisland 19 km | 67% | 11% | €46K | 22.1 min | B− | B− |
| Newmarket 19.1 km | 74% | 8.6% | €46K | 28.8 min | B | D |
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 Mountcollins, 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 Mountcollins
What is the unemployment rate in Mountcollins?
10% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.1% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Mountcollins get to work?
92% of commuters go by car or van, 2.4% walk, 0% cycle and 1.2% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 3.6% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Mountcollins?
Trips to work, school or college take 35.1 minutes on average; 18% take an hour or more and 22% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Mountcollins?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Mountcollins’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Mountcollins 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 Mountcollins 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).