Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Where Belmont earns its living
Trips to work, school or college from Belmont take 25.1 minutes on average, with 5.9% taking an hour or more. Unemployment in Belmont stood at 12% at the 2022 census, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. Belmont has no Jobs & income Grade: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
The short version on work in Belmont
Fewer people in work than most towns
55% of people aged 15 to 64 in Belmont had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
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; 3.8% 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.
Jobs and income in Belmont: the figures
Belmont has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Belmont, 55% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
None of the 4 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Offaly has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 3.8% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 61% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 44% 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.
What households earn in Belmont: €49,580 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Of the county’s 4 towns of 2,500 or more, 2 have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €45,060. The State median is €60,123, 21% above Belmont’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Walking, cycling, the bus or the train: 10% of Belmont’s commuters
5.7% cycle, against 2.9% in the middle of County Offaly. The car or van takes 81% of commuters; the middle of County Offaly has 73%. Working mainly from home: 8.6% here, 11% in the middle of Irish towns. Buses carry 1.4% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 6%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Against the middle of Irish towns, Belmont has the shorter trip to work or school
The middle of County Offaly has 50% of trips under 15 minutes; here it is 39%. Trips of 15 to 44 minutes are the most common, at 52% (middle of County Offaly: 35%). The trip from the middle of County Offaly averages 23.7 minutes. 3 of the 4 towns of County Offaly counted have 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.
Signing on in County Offaly since 2019
2,937 people were signing on in County Offaly in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count fell by 2%. For 73 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. Its lowest month since 2019 was March 2025, at 2,930. County Offaly: signing on peaked in July 2019 at 4,211, 9% 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).
Everyday places a walk away in Belmont
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.
How the places next to Belmont compare on work
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belmont | 55% | 12% | €50K | 25.1 min | — | — |
| Ferbane 4 km | 63% | 13% | €53K | 26.8 min | C− | D |
| Banagher 9.6 km | 63% | 13% | €47K | 25.5 min | C− | B |
| Kilcormac 14.4 km | 56% | 19% | €46K | 26.3 min | D− | B |
| Birr 18.1 km | 61% | 15% | €43K | 22.7 min | D | B− |
| Athlone 19.1 km | 65% | 12% | €53K | 22.7 min | C+ | 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 Belmont, 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 Belmont
What is the unemployment rate in Belmont?
12% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.8% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Belmont get to work?
81% of commuters go by car or van, 2.9% walk, 5.7% cycle and 1.4% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 8.6% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Belmont?
Trips to work, school or college take 25.1 minutes on average; 5.9% take an hour or more and 39% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Belmont?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Belmont’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Belmont 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 Belmont 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).