Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0Work and commuting in Kinnitty
The 2022 census put unemployment in Kinnitty at 13%, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. Getting to work, school or college from Kinnitty takes 30.2 minutes on average, and 11% take an hour or more. Jobs and income go ungraded in Kinnitty: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Jobs and income in Kinnitty: what the figures say
Work near the middle
72% of people aged 15 to 64 in Kinnitty had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
13% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 6% 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.
Kinnitty: jobs and income figures, no grade
Kinnitty has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Kinnitty, 72% of people of working age are in work
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 6% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 71% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 58% 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.
What the people of Kinnitty do for work
Commerce and trade is the second-largest at 20%, against 26% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is building and construction, 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.
Before tax, the median household in Kinnitty has €55,850
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
No town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. Net of tax, it is €48,100. The State median is €60,123, 8% above Kinnitty’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
4.6% of Kinnitty’s trips to work are on foot, by bike or public transport
Driving to work: 85% here, 73% in the middle of County Offaly. By bus: 0.9% of commuters, next to 6% in the middle of Irish towns. The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking to work; here it is 3.7%. The middle of County Offaly has 6.6%; here, 10% work mainly from home.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The trip to work or school is longer from Kinnitty than in the middle of Irish towns
Of the 4 towns of County Offaly counted, 3 have a shorter average trip. Under 15 minutes: 35% of trips, next to 50% in the middle of County Offaly. The middle of County Offaly has 35% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 48%, the commonest length. Across County Offaly, the middle town’s trips average 23.7 minutes.
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.
County Offaly on the Live Register since 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%. 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).
58% of adults in Kinnitty are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 8% are full-time students.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
What is within walking distance in Kinnitty
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.
How the places next to Kinnitty compare on work
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinnitty | 72% | 13% | €56K | 30.2 min | — | — |
| Kilcormac 8.4 km | 56% | 19% | €46K | 26.3 min | D− | B |
| Birr 12.7 km | 61% | 15% | €43K | 22.7 min | D | B− |
| Roscrea 17 km | 63% | 13% | €44K | 23 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 Kinnitty, 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 Kinnitty
What is the unemployment rate in Kinnitty?
13% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 6% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Kinnitty get to work?
85% of commuters go by car or van, 3.7% walk, 0% cycle and 0.9% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 10% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Kinnitty?
Trips to work, school or college take 30.2 minutes on average; 11% take an hour or more and 35% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Kinnitty?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Kinnitty’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Kinnitty 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 Kinnitty 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).