Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs and the daily commute in Patrickswell
Trips to work, school or college from Patrickswell take 23.2 minutes on average, with 3.3% taking an hour or more. The Jobs & income Grade leaves out Patrickswell: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Work in Patrickswell: the figures worth knowing
Work near the middle
64% of people aged 15 to 64 in Patrickswell had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 23.2 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 3.3% 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 Patrickswell: the figures
Patrickswell has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Less time on the road to work or school from Patrickswell than in the middle of Irish towns
The middle of County Limerick has 57% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 59%, the commonest length. In County Limerick, 10 of 15 towns counted average a shorter trip. The middle of County Limerick has 37% of trips under 15 minutes; here it is 35%.
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 long trips to work, school or college take, 2022 census (trips whose length wasn’t stated left out).
Jobs held by Patrickswell’s residents, by industry
The second-largest is Commerce and trade, at 24% (against 26% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 0.9%.
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.
People living here who are in work, by the industry they work in, wherever their job is (2022 census).
64% of working-age people in Patrickswell have jobs
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.
Of those in the labour force, 10% were out of work, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 2.6% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 47% had been out of work that long. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 50% 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.
Median income per household in Patrickswell: €53,460
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Patrickswell 4% below the median for County Limerick as a whole, €55,952. 6 of the county’s 15 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €49,290. The State median is €60,123, 12% above Patrickswell’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
10% of people travelling to work from Patrickswell walk, cycle or take the bus or train
Driving dominates: 85% go to work by car or van. The middle of Irish towns has 11% working mainly from home; here it is 4.7%. The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 3.7%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
How residents in work get there (2022 census; people working mainly from home included).
The count signing on in County Limerick is 8% below its 2019 level
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).
Most of Patrickswell works: 50% of adults are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 18% are retired (against 15%) and 7.7% 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.
Everyone aged 15 and over, by what they said they mainly do (2022 census), and the jobs of those in work.
How much of Patrickswell can walk to everyday places
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.
Next to Patrickswell: how nearby places compare
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrickswell | 64% | 10% | €53K | 23.2 min | — | — |
| Dooradoyle 5.3 km | 72% | 6.1% | €72K | 23.5 min | A | B− |
| Adare 7.1 km | 75% | 5.9% | €70K | 25 min | A+ | B |
| Ballinacurra 7.2 km | 67% | 8.5% | €63K | 23 min | B+ | B+ |
| Dock 8.3 km | 63% | 13% | €42K | 23.8 min | C− | A |
| Rathbane 8.4 km | 58% | 14% | €54K | 22.1 min | C | C+ |
| Prospect and Newtown Pery 8.4 km | 50% | 19% | €35K | 21 min | D | A |
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 Patrickswell, 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 Patrickswell
What is the unemployment rate in Patrickswell?
10% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.6% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Patrickswell get to work?
85% of commuters go by car or van, 4.7% walk, 1.6% cycle and 3.7% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 4.7% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Patrickswell?
Trips to work, school or college take 23.2 minutes on average; 3.3% take an hour or more and 35% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Patrickswell?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Patrickswell’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Patrickswell 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 Patrickswell 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).