Photo: JP · CC BY-SA 2.0How Robinstown works: jobs, income and commuting
At the 2022 census, 7% of the labour force in Robinstown had no job, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. The mean journey from Robinstown lasts 29.8 minutes, and 12% exceed an hour. Jobs and income go ungraded in Robinstown: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Work in Robinstown, in a few figures
Work near the middle
66% of people aged 15 to 64 in Robinstown had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
The median household in Robinstown had €78,870 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 ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
Why Robinstown has no Jobs & income Grade
Robinstown has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Household income in Robinstown: €78,870 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Of the county’s 12 towns of 2,500 or more, 5 have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €65,070. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 24% below Robinstown’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
What residents of Robinstown work in
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 1.1%.
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.
Work for 66% of 15-to-64s in Robinstown
Of the 12 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Meath, 2 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 1.9% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 42% had been out of work that long. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 59% 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.
Out of the car: 4.5% of Robinstown’s commuters
The bus takes 1.7% of commuters, against 6% in the middle of Irish towns. Walking takes 1.1% of commuters and cycling 1.1%, where the middle of Irish towns has 10% and 2.4%. The car or van carries most commuters: 82%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Work and school are further off in time from Robinstown than for the middle of Irish towns
Short trips of under 15 minutes make up 34%, where the middle of County Meath has 29%. Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 44%, against 47% in the middle of County Meath. For the middle of County Meath, the average trip is 32.9 minutes. Among County Meath’s 12 towns counted, 1 have shorter trips on average.
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.
County Meath on the Live Register 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. County Meath: signing on peaked in July 2020 at 5,146, 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).
Most of Robinstown works: 59% of adults are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 16% are full-time students (against 11%), 8.6% are retired (against 15%) and 3.2% 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.
Within 800 m of home in Robinstown
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Of the everyday places, a food shop 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.
Neighbouring places to Robinstown, compared
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robinstown | 66% | 7% | €79K | 29.8 min | — | — |
| Trim 5.7 km | 70% | 7.9% | €62K | 32 min | B | C |
| Navan 7.1 km | 67% | 10% | €63K | 33.8 min | C | C+ |
| Athboy 13.3 km | 66% | 11% | €55K | 34.6 min | C− | B |
| Kentstown 13.5 km | 67% | 10% | €79K | 34.8 min | C+ | D− |
| Dunshaughlin 15.2 km | 75% | 6.1% | €88K | 34.7 min | A− | B− |
| Ballivor 16.9 km | 65% | 12% | €59K | 37.5 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 Robinstown, 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 Robinstown
What is the unemployment rate in Robinstown?
7% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1.9% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Robinstown get to work?
82% of commuters go by car or van, 1.1% walk, 1.1% cycle and 2.3% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 12% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Robinstown?
Trips to work, school or college take 29.8 minutes on average; 12% take an hour or more and 34% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Robinstown?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Robinstown’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Robinstown 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 Robinstown 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).