Photo: Jo Turner · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes in Knock trail those of 95% of Irish towns
For jobs and income, Knock earns a grade of B. Trips to work, school or college from Knock take 22.6 minutes on average, and 7.3% take an hour or more. The 2022 census put unemployment in Knock at 8.1% (the middle of Irish towns: 9.2%).
Knock and work: the main findings
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Knock had €37,560 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 ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 22.6 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 7.3% 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.
On jobs and income, Knock grades B
Better than 63% of Irish towns across four measures.
Its strongest measure is trip times; its weakest, household income.
Graded against Irish towns of 1,000 people or more; a shorter trip and less unemployment count in its favor.
Ranks start at 2,500 residents, so this grade has no rank.
How the grade works
Four measures, weighed equally against every Irish town of 1,000 people or more: median gross household income (CSO, 2022), people at work as a share of residents aged 15 to 64, the unemployment rate and the average trip to work, school or college (all three Census 2022). Each becomes a percentile; their average sets the letter.
Median income per household in Knock: €37,560
That puts Knock 23% below the median for County Mayo as a whole, €48,665. Every town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. Net of tax, it is €34,580. The State median is €60,123, 60% above Knock’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Against the middle of Irish towns, Knock has the shorter trip to work or school
Across County Mayo, the middle town’s trips average 20.8 minutes. Of the 6 towns of County Mayo counted, 4 have a shorter average trip. Under 15 minutes: 50% of trips, next to 55% in the middle of County Mayo.
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.
What the people of Knock do for work
The second-largest is Commerce and trade, at 20% (against 26% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 2.7%.
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.
In Knock, 72% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Of the 6 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Mayo, 4 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 1.8% 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, 43% 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.
Walking, cycling, the bus or the train: 11% of Knock’s commuters
The car or van takes 75% of commuters, close to the middle of County Mayo. By bus: 1.2% of commuters, next to 6% in the middle of Irish towns. Walking takes 8.7% of commuters and cycling 0.6%, where the middle of Irish towns has 10% and 2.4%. More people work mainly from home here than in the middle of County Mayo: 13% against 7.2%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
How many sign on in County Mayo: the count since 2019
4,861 people were signing on in County Mayo in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 fell by 3%. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 73 months. County Mayo saw its highest month in July 2020: 7,288 people signing on, 10% 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).
A retired town: 35% of adults in Knock
Compared with Irish towns, 6% are full-time students (against 11%) and 43% are in work (against 57%).
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
The walkability of Knock: D
Better than 7% of Irish towns on two measures together.
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.
How Knock compares with the places nearby
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knock | 72% | 8.1% | €38K | 22.6 min | B | D |
| Kiltimagh 8 km | 69% | 10% | €42K | 22.8 min | B− | B− |
| Claremorris 9.5 km | 73% | 8.6% | €50K | 26.7 min | B | C |
| Ballyhaunis 10.3 km | 57% | 16% | €41K | 21.4 min | D | A− |
| Swinford 16.5 km | 62% | 15% | €42K | 22.5 min | D | 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 Knock, 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 Knock
What is the unemployment rate in Knock?
8.1% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1.8% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Knock a good place to find work?
Knock earns a B for jobs and income, better than 63% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together.
How do people in Knock get to work?
75% of commuters go by car or van, 8.7% walk, 0.6% cycle and 1.5% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 13% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Knock?
Trips to work, school or college take 22.6 minutes on average; 7.3% take an hour or more and 50% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Knock?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Knock’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Knock 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 Knock travel and how long their trips take.
Sources: CSO Census 2022 SAPS · CSO Geographical Profiles of Income 2022 · CSO Live Register (LRM07) · OpenStreetMap (ODbL) · grades: TownRatings. 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).