Photo: Gerd Eichmann · CC BY-SA 4.0How Mullaghmore works: jobs, income and commuting
31% of its workers worked mainly from home on census day in 2022. At the 2022 census, 1.3% of the labour force in Mullaghmore had no job; the middle of Irish towns is 9.2%. Travel time from Mullaghmore to work, school or college: 28.9 minutes on average, an hour or longer for 6.1%.
What Mullaghmore’s work numbers say
More people in work than most towns
76% of people aged 15 to 64 in Mullaghmore had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
1.3% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 0% 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.
The figures behind jobs and income in Mullaghmore
Mullaghmore has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Mullaghmore, 76% of people of working age are in work
The middle of Irish towns is 68%.
0% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 0% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 50% 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 Mullaghmore has €51,030 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Mullaghmore’s median is 1% above County Sligo’s (€50,438). After tax, the median is €44,690. The State median is €60,123, 18% above Mullaghmore’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Walking, cycling, the bus or the train: 5.6% of Mullaghmore’s commuters
4.2% walk to work, against 10% in the middle of Irish towns. 61% go by car or van, about the same as in the middle of County Sligo. The bus takes 1.4% of commuters, against 6% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The trip from Mullaghmore to work or school is a typical one for Irish towns
Under 15 minutes: 27% of trips, next to 56% in the middle of County Sligo. Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 64%, against 39% in the middle of County Sligo.
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.
18% fewer people sign on in County Sligo than in 2019
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%. For 38 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. 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).
Within 800 m of home in Mullaghmore
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 Mullaghmore, side by side
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mullaghmore | 76% | 1.3% | €51K | 28.9 min | — | — |
| Kinlough 11 km | 62% | 13% | €42K | 24.9 min | D | C+ |
| Bundoran 11.3 km | 63% | 14% | €37K | 21.5 min | C− | C+ |
| Ballyshannon 17.6 km | 62% | 15% | €37K | 21.1 min | C− | B |
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 Mullaghmore, 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 Mullaghmore
What is the unemployment rate in Mullaghmore?
1.3% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 0% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Mullaghmore get to work?
61% of commuters go by car or van, 4.2% walk, 0% cycle and 1.4% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 31% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Mullaghmore?
Trips to work, school or college take 28.9 minutes on average; 6.1% take an hour or more and 27% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Mullaghmore?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Mullaghmore’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Mullaghmore 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 Mullaghmore 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).