Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Making a living in Smithborough
The average trip to work, school or college from Smithborough takes 22.6 minutes, and 4.5% take an hour or more. Smithborough isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
The work figures that set Smithborough apart
Fewer people in work than most towns
63% of people aged 15 to 64 in Smithborough had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Smithborough had €46,400 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 22.6 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 4.5% 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 Smithborough has no Jobs & income Grade
Smithborough has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
63% of working-age people in Smithborough have jobs
None of the 3 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Monaghan has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Unemployment, counted the census way, was 9.3% of the labour force; the middle of Irish towns is 9.2%. 3.5% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 64% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 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.
Median household income in Smithborough is €46,400
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Smithborough’s median is 8% 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 €41,500. The State median is €60,123, 30% above Smithborough’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Against the middle of Irish towns, Smithborough has the shorter trip to work or school
For the middle of County Monaghan, the average trip is 24.6 minutes. Under 15 minutes: 41% of trips, next to 47% in the middle of County Monaghan. 50% of trips take 15 to 44 minutes, where the middle of County Monaghan has 40%.
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.
How long trips to work, school or college take, 2022 census (trips whose length wasn’t stated left out).
What Smithborough does for a living
Professional services, health and education is the second-largest at 25%, against 25% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is public administration, at 1.6%.
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.
People living here who are in work, by the industry they work in, wherever their job is (2022 census).
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 6.5% of Smithborough’s commuters
The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking to work; here it is 4.9%. For 90% of commuters, the trip to work is by car or van. 2.7% work mainly from home, against 11% in the middle of Irish towns. Buses carry 1.6% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 6%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
How residents in work get there (2022 census; people working mainly from home included).
33% fewer people sign on in County Monaghan than in 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 saw its highest month in July 2019: 2,830 people signing on, 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).
Most of Smithborough works: 54% of adults 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.
Everyone aged 15 and over, by what they said they mainly do (2022 census), and the jobs of those in work.
Walking to the shops, school and post office in Smithborough
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.
Work in and around Smithborough
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smithborough | 63% | 9.3% | €46K | 22.6 min | — | — |
| Monaghan 9 km | 68% | 11% | €45K | 22.1 min | B− | C+ |
| Clones 9.7 km | 65% | 11% | €34K | 20.9 min | C+ | A |
| Ballybay 16.6 km | 67% | 11% | €42K | 25.3 min | C | B− |
| Cootehill 16.9 km | 69% | 11% | €39K | 23.9 min | C+ | B+ |
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 Smithborough, 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 Smithborough
What is the unemployment rate in Smithborough?
9.3% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.5% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Smithborough get to work?
90% of commuters go by car or van, 4.9% walk, 0% cycle and 1.6% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 2.7% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Smithborough?
Trips to work, school or college take 22.6 minutes on average; 4.5% take an hour or more and 41% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Smithborough?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Smithborough’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Smithborough 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 Smithborough 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).