Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainWork and commuting in Clonygowan
The trip to work, school or college averages 30 minutes from Clonygowan; for 13%, it takes an hour or more. 7.4% of the labour force in Clonygowan was out of work at the 2022 census, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Clonygowan isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Work in Clonygowan: the figures worth knowing
Work near the middle
71% of people aged 15 to 64 in Clonygowan had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Unemployment near the middle
7.4% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 0.9% 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.
No Jobs & income Grade for Clonygowan
Clonygowan has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Jobs held by Clonygowan’s residents, by industry
Professional services, health and education is the second-largest at 26%, against 25% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 1.5%.
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.
In Clonygowan, 71% of the working-age population has a job
All 4 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Offaly have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
0.9% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 18% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 63% 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.
Household income in Clonygowan: €65,580 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Clonygowan’s median is 17% above County Offaly’s (€56,048). No town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. After tax, the median is €54,660. The State median is €60,123, 8% below Clonygowan’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Car-free commutes: 6.7% of workers in Clonygowan
The middle of County Offaly has 1.4%; here, 5.2% go by train, DART or Luas. 84% go by car or van, against 73% in the middle of County Offaly. Mainly from home: 8.1% of residents in work, next to 11% in the middle of Irish towns. Almost no one goes on foot or by bike, where the middle of Irish towns has 10% and 2.4%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Work and school are further off in time from Clonygowan than for the middle of Irish towns
In the middle of County Offaly, the trip averages 23.7 minutes. Among County Offaly’s 4 towns counted, 3 have shorter trips on average. Under 15 minutes: 36% of trips, next to 50% in the middle of County Offaly. 42% of trips take 15 to 44 minutes, where the middle of County Offaly has 35%.
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.
The Live Register in County Offaly, month by month
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 saw its highest month in July 2019: 4,211 people signing on, 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).
Work, study, retirement: 63% of adults in Clonygowan are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 11% are retired (against 15%) and 2.3% 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.
Everyday places within walking distance in Clonygowan
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.
Work in and around Clonygowan
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonygowan | 71% | 7.4% | €66K | 30 min | — | — |
| Portarlington 7 km | 63% | 10% | €53K | 33.1 min | D | C |
| Mountmellick 8.3 km | 61% | 13% | €48K | 30.2 min | D | C+ |
| Daingean 12.6 km | 62% | 14% | €56K | 31.6 min | D | D |
| Monasterevin 15.8 km | 69% | 9.1% | €61K | 32.2 min | B− | C+ |
| Portlaoise 16.4 km | 64% | 12% | €57K | 30.4 min | C− | C− |
| Tullamore 17.1 km | 64% | 12% | €53K | 24.3 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 Clonygowan, 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 Clonygowan
What is the unemployment rate in Clonygowan?
7.4% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 0.9% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Clonygowan get to work?
84% of commuters go by car or van, 0% walk, 0% cycle and 6.7% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 8.1% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Clonygowan?
Trips to work, school or college take 30 minutes on average; 13% take an hour or more and 36% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Clonygowan?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Clonygowan’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Clonygowan 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 Clonygowan 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).
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