Photo: . · CC BY-SA 4.0Pollagh at work: jobs, income and the commute
The 2022 census put unemployment in Pollagh at 8.7%, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. Getting to work, school or college from Pollagh takes 29.2 minutes on average; for 11%, it takes an hour or more. Pollagh has no Jobs & income Grade: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Pollagh and work: the main findings
Fewer people in work than most towns
63% of people aged 15 to 64 in Pollagh had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Pollagh had €46,520 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.
Pollagh: jobs and income figures, no grade
Pollagh has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Working-age people in Pollagh: 63% have a job
Of the 4 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Offaly, 3 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 2.7% of people aged 15 and over. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 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.
The median household in Pollagh has €46,520 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Pollagh 17% below the median for County Offaly as a whole, €56,048. 3 of the county’s 4 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €42,070. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 29% above Pollagh’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
In Pollagh, 7.7% of commuters leave the car behind
The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 1.3%. 3.8% walk to work, against 10% in the middle of Irish towns. The car or van carries most commuters: 85%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
A run to work or school from Pollagh much like the middle of Irish towns
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. Against 50% in the middle of County Offaly, 24% of trips take under 15 minutes. The middle of County Offaly has 35% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 63%, the commonest length.
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 monthly count of people signing on in County Offaly
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).
How much of Pollagh can walk to everyday places
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.
The places around Pollagh, side by side
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pollagh | 63% | 8.7% | €47K | 29.2 min | — | — |
| Ferbane 8.6 km | 63% | 13% | €53K | 26.8 min | C− | D |
| Clara 9.9 km | 61% | 12% | €47K | 23.1 min | C | C− |
| Kilcormac 11.1 km | 56% | 19% | €46K | 26.3 min | D− | B |
| Moate 13.9 km | 67% | 11% | €53K | 25.6 min | C+ | C |
| Tullamore 14.2 km | 64% | 12% | €53K | 24.3 min | C+ | B− |
| Kilbeggan 17.1 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 Pollagh, 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 Pollagh
What is the unemployment rate in Pollagh?
8.7% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Pollagh get to work?
85% of commuters go by car or van, 3.8% walk, 2.6% cycle and 1.3% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 6.4% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Pollagh?
Trips to work, school or college take 29.2 minutes on average; 11% take an hour or more and 24% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Pollagh?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Pollagh’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Pollagh 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 Pollagh 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).