Making a living in Ballynacarrow
2.1% of trips from Ballynacarrow last an hour or longer; the mean is 22 minutes. The 2022 census put unemployment in Ballynacarrow at 12%, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Ballynacarrow isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Work in Ballynacarrow: the figures worth knowing
Work near the middle
66% of people aged 15 to 64 in Ballynacarrow had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 22 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 2.1% 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.
Jobs and income in Ballynacarrow: the figures
Ballynacarrow has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
From Ballynacarrow, work or school is 22 minutes away on average, under the middle of Irish towns
Against 56% in the middle of County Sligo, 33% of trips take under 15 minutes. The commonest trip is 15 to 44 minutes, for 62% of trips; the middle of County Sligo has 39%.
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.
In Ballynacarrow, 66% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
The middle of Irish towns is 68%.
2.6% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 34% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 57% 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.
Ballynacarrow at the median: €60,440 a household
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Ballynacarrow’s median is 20% above County Sligo’s (€50,438). After tax, the median is €53,770. The State median is €60,123, 1% below Ballynacarrow’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
1.1% of Ballynacarrow’s trips to work are on foot, by bike or public transport
Hardly anyone walks or cycles to work; the middle of Irish towns has 10% on foot and 2.4% by bike. 92% drive, against 61% in the middle of County Sligo. Home is the main workplace for 6.9%, where the middle of Irish towns has 11%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
How the count signing on in County Sligo has moved
2,120 people were signing on in County Sligo in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 fell by 4%. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 38 months. Its lowest month since 2019 was November 2021, at 2,052. County Sligo: signing on peaked in July 2020 at 3,040, 11% 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).
Walking to the shops, school and post office in Ballynacarrow
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a food shop: 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.
Work in the places around Ballynacarrow
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballynacarrow | 66% | 12% | €60K | 22 min | — | — |
| Coolaney 5.1 km | 72% | 7.7% | €60K | 25.8 min | A− | D− |
| Ballymote 5.8 km | 69% | 11% | €43K | 24.1 min | C+ | B− |
| Collooney 7 km | 70% | 9.4% | €50K | 20.6 min | B+ | C− |
| Ballysadare 9.4 km | 75% | 6.4% | €57K | 19.9 min | A+ | C− |
| Tubbercurry 14.4 km | 63% | 15% | €42K | 25.2 min | D | C− |
| Strandhill 15.4 km | 74% | 5.6% | €64K | 22.2 min | A+ | 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 Ballynacarrow, 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 Ballynacarrow
What is the unemployment rate in Ballynacarrow?
12% 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 Ballynacarrow get to work?
92% of commuters go by car or van, 0% walk, 0% cycle and 1.1% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 6.9% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Ballynacarrow?
Trips to work, school or college take 22 minutes on average; 2.1% take an hour or more and 33% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Ballynacarrow?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Ballynacarrow’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Ballynacarrow 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 Ballynacarrow 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).