Photo: Dylan Moore · CC BY-SA 2.0Kilcormac has a smaller share of its working-age people in jobs than 97% of Irish towns
For jobs and income, Kilcormac earns a grade of D−. At the 2022 census, 19% of the labour force in Kilcormac had no job, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Travel time from Kilcormac to work, school or college: 26.3 minutes on average, an hour or longer for 9.6%.
The work numbers behind Kilcormac
Fewer people in work than most towns
56% of people aged 15 to 64 in Kilcormac had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
19% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 5.2% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Kilcormac had €46,180 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 ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
Kilcormac earns D− for jobs and income
Its four measures together rank it better than 3% of Irish towns.
Its strongest measure is trip times; 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.
In Kilcormac, 56% of the working-age population has 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.
5.2% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 51% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 45% 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 Kilcormac: €46,180 a year
Before tax, 2022: lower than in 75% of Irish towns.
Kilcormac’s median is 18% below County Offaly’s (€56,048). Of the county’s 4 towns of 2,500 or more, 3 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €42,790. The State median is €60,123, 30% above Kilcormac’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
The work done by people from Kilcormac
Manufacturing is the second-largest at 20%, against 11% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 4.3%.
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.
Leaving the car at home: 13% of commuters in Kilcormac
More people take the bus to work here than in the middle of County Offaly: 3.5% against 1%. 79% go by car or van, against 73% in the middle of County Offaly. Home is the main workplace for 5.8%, where the middle of Irish towns has 11%. 8.6% walk and 0.6% cycle to work, against 10% and 2.4% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Getting to work or school from Kilcormac takes about as long as in the middle of Irish towns
The commonest trip is 15 to 44 minutes, for 46% of trips; the middle of County Offaly has 35%. The middle of County Offaly averages 23.7 minutes a trip. Among County Offaly’s 4 towns counted, 3 have shorter trips on average. Trips of under 15 minutes are 41% of the total, 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.
Signing on in County Offaly, against the 2019 level
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).
How Kilcormac spends its days: 45% of adults in work
Compared with Irish towns, 7.3% 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.
Getting around Kilcormac on foot earns B
Better than 63% of Irish towns on two measures together.
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.
Neighbouring places to Kilcormac, compared
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilcormac | 56% | 19% | €46K | 26.3 min | D− | B |
| Ferbane 12.9 km | 63% | 13% | €53K | 26.8 min | C− | D |
| Birr 15.1 km | 61% | 15% | €43K | 22.7 min | D | B− |
| Banagher 17.1 km | 63% | 13% | €47K | 25.5 min | C− | B |
| Tullamore 19.2 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 Kilcormac, 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 Kilcormac
What is the unemployment rate in Kilcormac?
19% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 5.2% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Kilcormac a good place to find work?
Kilcormac earns a D− for jobs and income, better than 3% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together.
How do people in Kilcormac get to work?
79% of commuters go by car or van, 8.6% walk, 0.6% cycle and 3.8% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 5.8% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Kilcormac?
Trips to work, school or college take 26.3 minutes on average; 9.6% take an hour or more and 41% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Kilcormac?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Kilcormac’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Kilcormac 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 Kilcormac 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).
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