Photo: Conor Dunne · CC0Work, pay and getting to work in Donore
11% of the labour force in Donore was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. The mean journey from Donore lasts 28.2 minutes, and 11% exceed an hour. Donore isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
The work numbers behind Donore
Work near the middle
65% of people aged 15 to 64 in Donore had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Unemployment near the middle
11% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 3% 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.
No Jobs & income Grade for Donore
Donore has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
What Donore does for a living
Professional services, health and education is the second-largest at 19%, against 25% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 2.1%.
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.
Working-age people in Donore: 65% have a job
Of the 12 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Meath, 1 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
3% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 42% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 57% 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 household income: €63,860 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Donore’s median is 10% below County Meath’s (€70,657). Of the county’s 12 towns of 2,500 or more, 7 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €55,410. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 6% below Donore’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
7.4% of Donore’s trips to work are on foot, by bike or public transport
Walking takes 3.1% of commuters and cycling 1.2%, where the middle of Irish towns has 10% and 2.4%. For 81% of commuters, the trip to work is by car or van. The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 2.2%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
A run to work or school from Donore much like the middle of Irish towns
Short trips of under 15 minutes make up 36%, where the middle of County Meath has 29%. The commonest trip is 15 to 44 minutes, for 47% of trips, much as in the middle of County Meath. Across County Meath, the middle town’s trips average 32.9 minutes. Of the 12 towns of County Meath counted, none has a shorter average trip.
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 Live Register in County Meath, month by month
3,692 people were signing on in County Meath in September 2026. For 71 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. Its lowest month since 2019 was November 2024, at 3,559. County Meath saw its highest month in July 2020: 5,146 people signing on, 14% 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).
In Donore, 57% of adults are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 12% are retired (against 15%).
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
The everyday places near home in Donore
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Of the everyday places, a pharmacy 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.
The work picture around Donore
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donore | 65% | 11% | €64K | 28.2 min | — | — |
| Duleek 3.6 km | 66% | 9.7% | €62K | 32.9 min | C | D− |
| Tullyallen 5.4 km | 69% | 5.9% | €75K | 29.1 min | A− | D |
| Drogheda 5.5 km | 65% | 11% | €56K | 31.1 min | C | B− |
| Slane 8.2 km | 67% | 11% | €62K | 34.9 min | C | B− |
| Kentstown 10 km | 67% | 10% | €79K | 34.8 min | C+ | D− |
| Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney 10.6 km | 69% | 8.7% | €69K | 37.7 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 Donore, 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 Donore
What is the unemployment rate in Donore?
11% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Donore get to work?
81% of commuters go by car or van, 3.1% walk, 1.2% cycle and 3.1% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 11% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Donore?
Trips to work, school or college take 28.2 minutes on average; 11% take an hour or more and 36% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Donore?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Donore’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Donore 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 Donore 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).