Photo: Dave Spencer · CC BY-SA 2.0How Kill works: jobs, income and commuting
2.1% of trips from Kill last an hour or longer; the mean is 23 minutes. The 2022 census put unemployment in Kill at 20%, next to 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Kill isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Work in Kill: the figures worth knowing
Fewer people in work than most towns
54% of people aged 15 to 64 in Kill had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
20% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 4.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 23 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.
The figures behind jobs and income in Kill
Kill has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
54% of working-age people in Kill have jobs
None of the 12 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Waterford has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 4.7% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 42% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 46% 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.
Shorter than the middle of Irish towns: trips from Kill average 23 minutes
Trips of under 15 minutes are 35% of the total, against 47% in the middle of County Waterford. Most often, a trip takes 15 to 44 minutes: 61%, against 47% in the middle of County Waterford. For the middle of County Waterford, the average trip is 20.4 minutes. 11 of the 12 towns of County Waterford 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 the people of Kill earn a living, by industry
The second-largest is Commerce and trade, at 19% (against 26% across Irish towns), and public administration is the smallest of the seven, at 2.5%.
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.
Half the households here have more than €52,610 a year
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Kill 2% above the median for County Waterford as a whole, €51,539. Of the county’s 12 towns of 2,500 or more, 5 have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €45,910. The State median is €60,123, 14% above Kill’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
6.4% of Kill’s trips to work are on foot, by bike or public transport
4.6% walk and 0.9% cycle to work, against 10% and 2.4% in the middle of Irish towns. The car or van carries most commuters: 87%. The middle of Irish towns has 11% working mainly from home; here it is 5.6%. Buses carry 0.9% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 6%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The monthly count of people signing on in County Waterford
9,918 people were signing on in County Waterford in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 rose by 4%. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 72 months. Its lowest month since 2019 was May 2025, at 9,340. County Waterford saw its highest month in July 2020: 14,178 people signing on, 12% 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).
46% of people 16 and over in Kill are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 11% are retired (against 15%) and 8.1% 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.
Shops, schools and services on foot in Kill
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a pharmacy: 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 Kill, side by side
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kill | 54% | 20% | €53K | 23 min | — | — |
| Tramore 12.2 km | 68% | 8.2% | €56K | 21.8 min | A− | C− |
| Portlaw 12.2 km | 67% | 9.4% | €48K | 26.8 min | C+ | C |
| Mooncoin 14 km | 62% | 15% | €58K | 24.4 min | C | B |
| Ballybeg 14.8 km | 59% | 16% | €45K | 18.9 min | C− | C |
| Kilbarry 14.9 km | 65% | 11% | €59K | 20.2 min | B | D |
| Lisduggan 15.9 km | 61% | 14% | €40K | 18.1 min | C− | 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 Kill, 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 Kill
What is the unemployment rate in Kill?
20% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 4.7% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Kill get to work?
87% of commuters go by car or van, 4.6% walk, 0.9% cycle and 0.9% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 5.6% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Kill?
Trips to work, school or college take 23 minutes on average; 2.1% take an hour or more and 35% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Kill?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Kill’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Kill 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 Kill 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).