Photo: Kieran Campbell · CC BY-SA 2.0Earning a living in Drumconrath
Trips to work, school or college from Drumconrath take 34.2 minutes on average, with 17% taking an hour or more. At the 2022 census, 14% of the labour force in Drumconrath had no job; the middle of Irish towns is 9.2%. There is no Jobs & income Grade for Drumconrath: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Work in Drumconrath, in a few figures
More unemployment than most towns
14% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 5.3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 34.2 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 17% 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.
Drumconrath isn’t graded for jobs and income
Drumconrath has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
The share in work in Drumconrath: 64% of 15-to-64s
None of the 12 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Meath has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
5.3% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 67% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 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.
Against the middle of Irish towns, Drumconrath has the longer trip to work or school
The commonest trip is 15 to 44 minutes, for 41% of trips; the middle of County Meath has 47%. Across County Meath, the middle town’s trips average 32.9 minutes. In County Meath, 8 of 12 towns counted average a shorter trip. Short trips of under 15 minutes make up 31%, where the middle of County Meath has 29%.
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 Drumconrath do for work
The second-largest is Professional services, health and education, at 18% (against 25% across Irish towns), and public administration is the smallest of the seven, at 5.1%.
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.
Median household income: €59,580 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Drumconrath’s median is 16% below County Meath’s (€70,657). 10 of the county’s 12 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. After tax, the median is €51,130. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 1% above Drumconrath’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
9.1% of Drumconrath’s commuters walk, cycle, or take the bus or train
Buses carry 1.2% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 6%. The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking and 2.4% cycling; here it is 6.1% and 1.2%. Most go by car or van: 80% of commuters.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Signing on in County Meath: the count since 2019
3,692 people were signing on in County Meath in September 2026. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 71 months. Its lowest month since 2019 was November 2024, at 3,559.
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 Drumconrath do: 50% are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 19% 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 Drumconrath
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.
The places around Drumconrath, side by side
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drumconrath | 64% | 14% | €60K | 34.2 min | — | — |
| Ardee 7.9 km | 63% | 12% | €47K | 27 min | C− | C |
| Kingscourt 11.9 km | 66% | 9.4% | €55K | 26.2 min | B− | C− |
| Carrickmacross 14.6 km | 66% | 12% | €46K | 26.6 min | C | C+ |
| Slane 17.1 km | 67% | 11% | €62K | 34.9 min | C | B− |
| Dunleer 17.2 km | 63% | 14% | €51K | 26.6 min | C− | C− |
| Castlebellingham-Kilsaran 18.1 km | 68% | 10% | €52K | 27 min | C+ | 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 Drumconrath, 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 Drumconrath
What is the unemployment rate in Drumconrath?
14% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 5.3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Drumconrath get to work?
80% of commuters go by car or van, 6.1% walk, 1.2% cycle and 1.8% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 9.1% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Drumconrath?
Trips to work, school or college take 34.2 minutes on average; 17% take an hour or more and 31% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Drumconrath?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Drumconrath’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Drumconrath 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 Drumconrath 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).