Knockcroghery at work: jobs, income and the commute
The trip to work, school or college averages 27.4 minutes from Knockcroghery; for 9.4%, it takes an hour or more. Out of work at the 2022 census: 8.5% of the labour force in Knockcroghery, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. No Jobs & income Grade is given to Knockcroghery: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Knockcroghery at work: what stands out
Work near the middle
70% of people aged 15 to 64 in Knockcroghery had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
The median household in Knockcroghery had €68,110 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.
Jobs and income in Knockcroghery: the figures
Knockcroghery has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Median household income: €68,110 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Knockcroghery 34% above the median for County Roscommon as a whole, €51,009. Net of tax, it is €57,950. The State median is €60,123, 12% below Knockcroghery’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
What Knockcroghery does for a living
The second-largest is Commerce and trade, at 23% (against 26% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 1.2%.
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.
In work in Knockcroghery: 70% of the 15-to-64s
The middle of Irish towns is 68%.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 2.8% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 49% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 61% 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.
Without a car, 4.3% of Knockcroghery’s commuters get to work
More people work mainly from home here than in the middle of County Roscommon: 14% against 8.8%. Driving to work: 81% here, 73% in the middle of County Roscommon. The bus takes 0.6% of commuters, against 6% in the middle of Irish towns. Walking takes 3.7% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 10%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
A run to work or school from Knockcroghery much like the middle of Irish towns
Under 15 minutes: 37% of trips, next to 54% in the middle of County Roscommon. The middle of County Roscommon has 36% of trips at 15 to 44 minutes; here it is 50%, 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 Live Register count in County Roscommon since 2019
1,855 people were signing on in County Roscommon in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 fell by 3%. Its lowest month since 2019 was September 2021, at 1,738. County Roscommon saw its highest month in July 2020: 2,291 people signing on, 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).
Knockcroghery at work: 61% of adults have a job
Compared with Irish towns, 1.1% 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.
Everyday places a walk away in Knockcroghery
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a pharmacy: 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 Knockcroghery compares with the places nearby
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knockcroghery | 70% | 8.5% | €68K | 27.4 min | — | — |
| Roscommon 9.4 km | 65% | 11% | €49K | 21.5 min | B− | C− |
| Lanesborough-Ballyleague 12.9 km | 67% | 9.8% | €43K | 27.1 min | C | C |
| Athlone 18.6 km | 65% | 12% | €53K | 22.7 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 Knockcroghery, 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 Knockcroghery
What is the unemployment rate in Knockcroghery?
8.5% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.8% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Knockcroghery get to work?
81% of commuters go by car or van, 3.7% walk, 0% cycle and 0.6% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 14% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Knockcroghery?
Trips to work, school or college take 27.4 minutes on average; 9.4% take an hour or more and 37% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Knockcroghery?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Knockcroghery’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Knockcroghery 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 Knockcroghery 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).