Photo: Sheila1988 · CC0Household incomes in Templemore trail those of 83% of Irish towns
Trips to work, school or college from Templemore take 24.3 minutes on average, with 11% taking an hour or more. For jobs and income, Templemore earns a grade of B−. At the 2022 census, 8.6% of the labour force in Templemore had no job; the middle of Irish towns is 9.2%.
Templemore at work: what stands out
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Templemore had €43,184 a year before tax in 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 24.3 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 11% 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.
On jobs and income, Templemore grades B−
Taken together, its four measures make it better than 46% of Irish towns.
Its strongest measure is trip times; its weakest, household income.
Graded against Irish towns of 1,000 people or more; a shorter trip and less unemployment count in its favor.
Ranks start at 2,500 residents, so this grade has no rank.
How the grade works
Four measures, weighed equally against every Irish town of 1,000 people or more: median gross household income (CSO, 2022), people at work as a share of residents aged 15 to 64, the unemployment rate and the average trip to work, school or college (all three Census 2022). Each becomes a percentile; their average sets the letter.
€43,184 a year: the median household in Templemore
Templemore’s median is 18% below County Tipperary’s (€52,756). Of the county’s 9 towns of 2,500 or more, 7 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €39,599. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 39% above Templemore’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Getting to work or school from Templemore takes less time than in the middle of Irish towns
Short trips of under 15 minutes make up 55%, where the middle of County Tipperary has 49%. 7 of the 9 towns of County Tipperary counted have a shorter average trip.
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.
Where Templemore’s residents work, by industry
Commerce and trade is the second-largest at 19%, against 26% across Irish towns; the smallest of the seven is farming, forestry and fishing, at 2.9%.
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 Templemore, 67% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Of the 9 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Tipperary, 4 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
2.7% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 57% 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, 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.
In Templemore, 22% of commuters leave the car behind
The bus takes 0.4% of commuters and the train, DART or Luas 2.4%; the middle of Irish towns has 6% and 0.9%. The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking to work; here it is 17%. The car or van carries most commuters: 71%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
29% fewer people sign on in County Tipperary than in 2019
5,284 people were signing on in County Tipperary in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count fell by 1%. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 73 months. Its lowest month since 2019 was November 2024, at 5,080. County Tipperary saw its highest month in July 2019: 8,381 people signing on, 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).
50% of adults in Templemore are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 21% are retired (against 15%) and 7.2% 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 walkability of Templemore: B+
Better than 75% of Irish towns on two measures together.
Of the everyday places, a post office is the one the fewest residents have within 800 m (82%).
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.
Neighbouring places to Templemore, compared
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Templemore | 67% | 8.6% | €43K | 24.3 min | B− | B+ |
| Thurles 13.2 km | 65% | 11% | €45K | 24.9 min | C | C+ |
| Rathdowney 17.5 km | 65% | 12% | €46K | 30.9 min | D | B+ |
| Roscrea 17.8 km | 63% | 13% | €44K | 23 min | C | B− |
| Urlingford 19.1 km | 58% | 18% | €45K | 23.7 min | D | A− |
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 Templemore, 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 Templemore
What is the unemployment rate in Templemore?
8.6% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Templemore a good place to find work?
Templemore earns a B− for jobs and income, better than 46% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together.
How do people in Templemore get to work?
71% of commuters go by car or van, 17% walk, 1.7% cycle and 2.8% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 6.3% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Templemore?
Trips to work, school or college take 24.3 minutes on average; 11% take an hour or more and 55% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Templemore?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Templemore’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Templemore 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 Templemore travel and how long their trips take.
Sources: CSO Census 2022 SAPS · CSO Geographical Profiles of Income 2022 · CSO Live Register (LRM07) · OpenStreetMap (ODbL) · grades: TownRatings. 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).