Photo: Sarah777 · Public domainWorking-age people in Daingean are less likely to have a job than in 83% of Irish towns
14% of the labour force in Daingean was out of work at the 2022 census, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Daingean grades D for jobs and income. Getting to work, school or college from Daingean takes 31.6 minutes on average; 14% take an hour or more.
Work in Daingean, in a few figures
Fewer people in work than most towns
62% of people aged 15 to 64 in Daingean had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
14% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 3.6% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 31.6 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 14% 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.
The Jobs & income grade for Daingean: D
Better than 10% of Irish towns on four measures taken together.
Its strongest measure is household income; its weakest, the unemployment rate.
Graded against Irish towns of 1,000 people or more; a shorter trip and less unemployment count in its favor.
Ranks start at 2,500 residents, so this grade has no rank.
How the grade works
Four measures, weighed equally against every Irish town of 1,000 people or more: median gross household income (CSO, 2022), people at work as a share of residents aged 15 to 64, the unemployment rate and the average trip to work, school or college (all three Census 2022). Each becomes a percentile; their average sets the letter.
How many in Daingean have a job: 62% of 15-to-64s
Of the 4 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Offaly, 2 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
3.6% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 44% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 52% 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.
Against the middle of Irish towns, Daingean has the longer trip to work or school
Against 50% in the middle of County Offaly, 28% of trips take under 15 minutes. The middle of County Offaly has 35% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 51%, the commonest length. 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.
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 work done by people from Daingean
Commerce and trade is the second-largest at 19%, against 26% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 1.9%.
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.
The median household in Daingean has €55,670 a year
Before tax, 2022: higher than in 52% of Irish towns.
Daingean’s median is 1% below County Offaly’s (€56,048). No town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. After tax, the median is €50,290. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 8% above Daingean’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
11% of commuters in Daingean go on foot, by bike or by public transport
84% of commuters go by car or van. The bus takes 2.7% of commuters, against 6% in the middle of Irish towns. The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking to work; here it is 4.4%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
21% fewer people sign on in County Offaly than in 2019
2,937 people were signing on in County Offaly in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 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).
In work, studying or retired: 52% of Daingean’s adults work
Compared with Irish towns, 8.1% are full-time students (against 11%) and 7.2% 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.
The walkability of Daingean: D
Better than 10% of Irish towns on two measures together.
Of the everyday places, a post office 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 the places around Daingean
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daingean | 62% | 14% | €56K | 31.6 min | D | D |
| Rochfortbridge 12.9 km | 62% | 9.7% | €54K | 32.2 min | C− | B |
| Tullamore 13.4 km | 64% | 12% | €53K | 24.3 min | C+ | B− |
| Kilbeggan 15.4 km | 65% | 11% | €49K | 23.4 min | C+ | C |
| Edenderry 16.3 km | 63% | 12% | €54K | 32 min | D | C+ |
| Portarlington 17.2 km | 63% | 10% | €53K | 33.1 min | D | 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 Daingean, 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 Daingean
What is the unemployment rate in Daingean?
14% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.6% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Daingean a good place to find work?
Daingean earns a D for jobs and income, better than 10% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together.
How do people in Daingean get to work?
84% of commuters go by car or van, 4.4% walk, 2% cycle and 4.3% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 4.7% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Daingean?
Trips to work, school or college take 31.6 minutes on average; 14% take an hour or more and 28% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Daingean?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Daingean’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Daingean 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 Daingean travel and how long their trips take.
Sources: CSO Census 2022 SAPS · CSO Geographical Profiles of Income 2022 · CSO Live Register (LRM07) · OpenStreetMap (ODbL) · grades: TownRatings. 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).