Photo: Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.0Easky at work: jobs, income and the commute
Out of work at the 2022 census: 16% of Easky’s labour force, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. The average trip to work, school or college from Easky takes 30.1 minutes, with 9.9% taking an hour or more. Easky isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Where Easky stands out on work
Fewer people in work than most towns
62% of people aged 15 to 64 in Easky had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
16% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 5.3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Easky had €37,670 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.
No Jobs & income Grade for Easky
Easky has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In work in Easky: 62% of the 15-to-64s
The middle of Irish towns is 68%.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 5.3% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 61% had been out of work that long. 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.
€37,670 a year: the median household in Easky
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Easky 25% below the median for County Sligo as a whole, €50,438. Net of tax, it is €35,110. The State median is €60,123, 60% above Easky’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
What residents of Easky work in
Professional services, health and education is the second-largest at 19%, against 25% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is transport and communications, at 5.4%.
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.
Leaving the car at home: 10% of commuters in Easky
80% of commuters go by car or van. Working mainly from home: 9% here, 11% in the middle of Irish towns. By bus: 1.1% of commuters, next to 6% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The trip to work or school is longer from Easky than in the middle of Irish towns
Short trips of under 15 minutes make up 39%, where the middle of County Sligo has 56%.
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 in County Sligo, month by month
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 saw its highest month in July 2020: 3,040 people signing on, 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).
Jobs, studies and retirement in Easky: 45% in work
Compared with Irish towns, 7.8% are full-time students (against 11%), 22% are retired (against 15%) and 11% 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.
The everyday places near home in Easky
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.
Work in and around Easky
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easky | 62% | 16% | €38K | 30.1 min | — | — |
| Enniscrone 12.2 km | 70% | 11% | €43K | 23.7 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 Easky, 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 Easky
What is the unemployment rate in Easky?
16% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 5.3% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Easky get to work?
80% of commuters go by car or van, 7.9% walk, 1.1% cycle and 1.1% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 9% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Easky?
Trips to work, school or college take 30.1 minutes on average; 9.9% take an hour or more and 39% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Easky?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Easky’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Easky 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 Easky 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).