Photo: Kenneth Gallery Smyth · CC BY-SA 2.0Geashill at work: jobs, income and the commute
The 2022 census put unemployment in Geashill at 6.4%, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Trips to work, school or college from Geashill take 29.5 minutes on average, and 12% take an hour or more. Geashill isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What stands out about work in Geashill
Work near the middle
65% of people aged 15 to 64 in Geashill had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
6.4% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 2.3% 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 Geashill
Geashill has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In work in Geashill: 65% of the 15-to-64s
All 4 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Offaly have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 2.3% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 64% had been out of work that long. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 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.
The industries Geashill’s residents work in
Professional services, health and education is the second-largest at 24%, against 25% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 3.1%.
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.
Geashill households: €63,760 a year at the median
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Geashill 14% above the median for County Offaly as a whole, €56,048. No town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. Net of tax, it is €53,390. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 6% below Geashill’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Walk, cycle, bus or train: the choice of 8.4% of Geashill’s commuters
By bus: 1.3% of commuters, next to 6% in the middle of Irish towns. 5.2% walk to work, against 10% in the middle of Irish towns. The car or van carries most commuters: 81%. The middle of Irish towns has 11% working mainly from home; here it is 9.7%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
A run to work or school from Geashill much like the middle of Irish towns
54% of trips take 15 to 44 minutes, where the middle of County Offaly has 35%. In the middle of County Offaly, the trip averages 23.7 minutes. Of the 4 towns of County Offaly counted, 3 have a shorter average trip. 29% of trips take under 15 minutes, against 50% in the middle of County Offaly.
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%. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 73 months. 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: 52% of adults in Geashill 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.
Walking to the shops, school and post office in Geashill
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.
Around Geashill: jobs, pay and the commute
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geashill | 65% | 6.4% | €64K | 29.5 min | — | — |
| Daingean 7.4 km | 62% | 14% | €56K | 31.6 min | D | D |
| Tullamore 12.1 km | 64% | 12% | €53K | 24.3 min | C+ | B− |
| Portarlington 12.4 km | 63% | 10% | €53K | 33.1 min | D | C |
| Mountmellick 13.2 km | 61% | 13% | €48K | 30.2 min | D | C+ |
| Kilbeggan 18.6 km | 65% | 11% | €49K | 23.4 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 Geashill, 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 Geashill
What is the unemployment rate in Geashill?
6.4% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Geashill get to work?
81% of commuters go by car or van, 5.2% walk, 0% cycle and 3.2% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 9.7% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Geashill?
Trips to work, school or college take 29.5 minutes on average; 12% take an hour or more and 29% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Geashill?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Geashill’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Geashill 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 Geashill 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).