Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs and earnings in Shrule, and the trip to work
Getting to work, school or college from Shrule takes 30.4 minutes on average; for 7.4%, it takes an hour or more. The 2022 census put unemployment in Shrule at 6.4%, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Shrule isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What the numbers say about work in Shrule
Work near the middle
69% of people aged 15 to 64 in Shrule had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
6.4% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 1.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
Why Shrule has no Jobs & income Grade
Shrule has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Working-age people in Shrule: 69% 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 1.7% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 46% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 54% 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.
Where the people of Shrule earn a living, by industry
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 2.5%.
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.
How much households earn in Shrule: €57,640
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Shrule 18% above the median for County Mayo as a whole, €48,665. No town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. Net of tax, it is €50,120. The State median is €60,123, 4% above Shrule’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Not by car: 5.5% of Shrule’s commuters walk, cycle or ride the bus or train
In the middle of County Mayo, 74% drive to work; here it is 84%. Public transport barely figures, where the middle of Irish towns has 6% by bus and 0.9% by rail. The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking and 2.4% cycling; here it is 4.1% and 1.4%. The middle of County Mayo has 7.2%; here, 11% work mainly from home.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The trip to work or school is longer from Shrule than in the middle of Irish towns
In County Mayo, 6 of 6 towns counted average a shorter trip. Trips of under 15 minutes are 29% of the total, against 55% in the middle of County Mayo. 51% of trips take 15 to 44 minutes, where the middle of County Mayo has 36%. Across County Mayo, the middle town’s trips average 20.8 minutes.
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.
Signing on in County Mayo: the count since 2019
4,861 people were signing on in County Mayo in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count 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).
What adults in Shrule do: 54% are in work
The mix is close to Irish towns’ as a whole.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Getting around Shrule on foot
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a pharmacy: 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 the places next to Shrule compare on work
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shrule | 69% | 6.4% | €58K | 30.4 min | — | — |
| Headford 6.3 km | 71% | 9.3% | €59K | 27.6 min | B | D |
| Ballinrobe 13.9 km | 67% | 11% | €50K | 24.2 min | C+ | C− |
| Tuam 15.8 km | 63% | 13% | €48K | 25.9 min | C− | C+ |
| Oughterard 18.7 km | 69% | 7.7% | €51K | 28.6 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 Shrule, 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 Shrule
What is the unemployment rate in Shrule?
6.4% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Shrule get to work?
84% of commuters go by car or van, 4.1% walk, 1.4% cycle and 0% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 11% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Shrule?
Trips to work, school or college take 30.4 minutes on average; 7.4% take an hour or more and 29% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Shrule?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Shrule’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Shrule 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 Shrule 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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