Photo: Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs and the daily commute in Emyvale
The 2022 census put unemployment in Emyvale at 12%, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. Getting to work, school or college from Emyvale takes 19.7 minutes on average, with 4.1% taking an hour or more. Emyvale has no Jobs & income Grade: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What sets Emyvale apart on jobs and income
More unemployment than most towns
12% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 4.2% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Emyvale had €47,540 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 19.7 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 4.1% 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.
Why Emyvale has no Jobs & income Grade
Emyvale has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
How many in Emyvale have a job: 71% of 15-to-64s
All 3 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Monaghan have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
4.2% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 53% had been out of work that long. 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.
How much households earn in Emyvale: €47,540
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Emyvale’s median is 6% below County Monaghan’s (€50,617). No town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. After tax, the median is €42,800. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 26% above Emyvale’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Work and school are closer to hand from Emyvale than for the middle of Irish towns
For the middle of County Monaghan, the average trip is 24.6 minutes. Short trips of under 15 minutes make up 53%, where the middle of County Monaghan has 47%.
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.
In Emyvale, 25% of residents in work are in manufacturing, more than in most Irish towns
Commerce and trade is the second-largest at 19%, against 26% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is public administration, at 3%.
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.
Emyvale gets to work without a car for 14% of commuters
The car or van carries most commuters: 81%. Against 11% in the middle of Irish towns, 4% work mainly from home. Almost no one goes by bus or rail, against 6% and 0.9% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
People signing on in County Monaghan, against 2019
1,635 people were signing on in County Monaghan in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count fell by 11%. For 49 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. County Monaghan: signing on peaked in July 2019 at 2,830, 13% 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).
57% of Emyvale’s adults have a job
Compared with Irish towns, 8.1% are full-time students (against 11%).
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Everyday places within walking distance in Emyvale
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Of the everyday places, a school 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.
Next to Emyvale: how nearby places compare
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emyvale | 71% | 12% | €48K | 19.7 min | — | — |
| Monaghan 10.9 km | 68% | 11% | €45K | 22.1 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 Emyvale, 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 Emyvale
What is the unemployment rate in Emyvale?
12% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 4.2% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Emyvale get to work?
81% of commuters go by car or van, 14% walk, 0.7% cycle and 0% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 4% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Emyvale?
Trips to work, school or college take 19.7 minutes on average; 4.1% take an hour or more and 53% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Emyvale?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Emyvale’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Emyvale 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 Emyvale 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).