Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs and the daily commute in Ballyforan
From Ballyforan, trips to work, school or college average 27.4 minutes; for 6.8%, it takes an hour or more. There is no Jobs & income Grade for Ballyforan: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Ballyforan and work: the main findings
Fewer people in work than most towns
60% of people aged 15 to 64 in Ballyforan had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
14% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 6.1% 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.
Work and pay in Ballyforan, ungraded
Ballyforan has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
The share of 15-to-64s in work in Ballyforan: 60%
The middle of Irish towns is 68%.
Of those in the labour force, 14% were out of work, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 6.1% 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, 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.
What households earn in Ballyforan: €52,280 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Ballyforan 2% above the median for County Roscommon as a whole, €51,009. Net of tax, it is €48,880. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 15% above Ballyforan’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Out of the car: 9.2% of Ballyforan’s commuters
Working mainly from home: 7.9% here, 11% in the middle of Irish towns. The middle of Irish towns has 6% going by bus; here it is 1.3%. The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking to work; here it is 7.9%. 83% of commuters go by car or van.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
How residents in work get there (2022 census; people working mainly from home included).
Ballyforan spends about as long getting to work or school as the middle of Irish towns
56% of trips take 15 to 44 minutes, where the middle of County Roscommon has 36%. Against 54% in the middle of County Roscommon, 33% of trips take under 15 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.
How long trips to work, school or college take, 2022 census (trips whose length wasn’t stated left out).
How many sign on in County Roscommon: the count since 2019
1,855 people were signing on in County Roscommon in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count fell by 3%. Its lowest month since 2019 was September 2021, at 1,738. County Roscommon: signing on peaked in July 2020 at 2,291, 8% 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).
Shops, schools and services on foot in Ballyforan
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 Ballyforan, side by side
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyforan | 60% | 14% | €52K | 27.4 min | — | — |
| Ballinasloe 16.3 km | 60% | 15% | €50K | 23 min | C− | C |
| Roscommon 18.3 km | 65% | 11% | €49K | 21.5 min | B− | 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 Ballyforan, 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 Ballyforan
What is the unemployment rate in Ballyforan?
14% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 6.1% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Ballyforan get to work?
83% of commuters go by car or van, 7.9% walk, 0% cycle and 1.3% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 7.9% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Ballyforan?
Trips to work, school or college take 27.4 minutes on average; 6.8% take an hour or more and 33% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Ballyforan?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Ballyforan’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Ballyforan 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 Ballyforan 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).