Photo: Sarah777 at en.wikipedia · Public domainJobs, pay and the trip to work in Dundrum
Trips to work, school or college from Dundrum take 24.9 minutes on average, and 7.4% take an hour or more. Out of work at the 2022 census: 5.2% of the labour force in Dundrum, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. The Jobs & income Grade leaves out Dundrum: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
The short version on work in Dundrum
Work near the middle
68% of people aged 15 to 64 in Dundrum had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
5.2% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 0.6% 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.
Why Dundrum has no Jobs & income Grade
Dundrum has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
How many in Dundrum have a job: 68% of 15-to-64s
Of the 9 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Tipperary, 5 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 0.6% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 20% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 55% 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.
Half the households here have more than €59,310 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Dundrum 12% above the median for County Tipperary as a whole, €52,756. One of the county’s 9 towns of 2,500 people or more has a higher median. Net of tax, it is €53,320. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 1% above Dundrum’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Not by car: 11% of Dundrum’s commuters walk, cycle or ride the bus or train
More people work mainly from home here than in the middle of County Tipperary: 13% against 6.2%. The car or van takes 76% of commuters; the middle of County Tipperary has 75%. Hardly anyone takes the bus or train to work; the middle of Irish towns has 6% by bus and 0.9% by rail. By bike: 1.1% of commuters, next to 2.4% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Getting to work or school is quicker from Dundrum than in the middle of Irish towns
Trips of 15 to 44 minutes are the most common, at 44% (middle of County Tipperary: 39%). The middle of County Tipperary averages 23.4 minutes a trip. Among County Tipperary’s 9 towns counted, 7 have shorter trips on average. Trips of under 15 minutes are 42% of the total, against 49% in the middle of County Tipperary.
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 Tipperary since 2019
5,284 people were signing on in County Tipperary in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 fell by 1%. For 73 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. Its lowest month since 2019 was November 2024, at 5,080. County Tipperary: signing on peaked in July 2019 at 8,381, 9% 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 Dundrum
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Of the everyday places, a school 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 the places around Dundrum
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dundrum | 68% | 5.2% | €59K | 24.9 min | — | — |
| Tipperary 11.8 km | 59% | 15% | €37K | 22.8 min | D | B |
| Cashel 12.2 km | 67% | 9.2% | €46K | 23.9 min | B− | 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 Dundrum, 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 Dundrum
What is the unemployment rate in Dundrum?
5.2% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 0.6% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Dundrum get to work?
76% of commuters go by car or van, 10% walk, 1.1% cycle and 0% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 13% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Dundrum?
Trips to work, school or college take 24.9 minutes on average; 7.4% take an hour or more and 42% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Dundrum?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Dundrum’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Dundrum 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 Dundrum 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).