Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainHow Killeigh works: jobs, income and commuting
Unemployment in Killeigh stood at 11% at the 2022 census, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. Trips to work, school or college from Killeigh take 23 minutes on average; for 8.8%, it takes an hour or more. No Jobs & income Grade is given to Killeigh: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
What Killeigh’s work numbers say
Fewer people in work than most towns
60% of people aged 15 to 64 in Killeigh had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. Students are 19% of people aged 15 and over, and they count among the 15 to 64s. In work ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 23 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 8.8% 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.
Killeigh has no Jobs & income Grade
Killeigh has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Killeigh, 60% of people of working age are in work
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 2.6% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 43% had been out of work that long. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 48% 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.
Getting to work or school from Killeigh takes less time than in the middle of Irish towns
In County Offaly, 1 of 4 towns counted average a shorter trip. Trips of under 15 minutes are 47% 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.
Household income in Killeigh: €64,070 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Killeigh 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 €54,510. The State median is €60,123, 6% below Killeigh’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
7% of commuters from Killeigh go without the car
The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 1.4%. The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking to work; here it is 4.2%. For 85% of commuters, the trip to work is by car or van.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
County Offaly on the Live Register 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%. 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: 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 Killeigh
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.
Next to Killeigh: how nearby places compare
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Killeigh | 60% | 11% | €64K | 23 min | — | — |
| Tullamore 7.4 km | 64% | 12% | €53K | 24.3 min | C+ | B− |
| Mountmellick 13.7 km | 61% | 13% | €48K | 30.2 min | D | C+ |
| Daingean 14.3 km | 62% | 14% | €56K | 31.6 min | D | D |
| Kilbeggan 17.3 km | 65% | 11% | €49K | 23.4 min | C+ | C |
| Clara 18 km | 61% | 12% | €47K | 23.1 min | C | C− |
| Portarlington 18.6 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 Killeigh, 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 Killeigh
What is the unemployment rate in Killeigh?
11% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.6% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Killeigh get to work?
85% of commuters go by car or van, 4.2% walk, 0% cycle and 2.8% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 8.5% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Killeigh?
Trips to work, school or college take 23 minutes on average; 8.8% take an hour or more and 47% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Killeigh?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Killeigh’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Killeigh 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 Killeigh 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).