Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Where Ballyhack earns its living
The 2022 census put unemployment in Ballyhack at 11%, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. People heading out of Ballyhack for work or study spend 26.2 minutes travelling on average; 5.7% spend 60 minutes or longer. Ballyhack isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Ballyhack at work: what stands out
Fewer people in work than most towns
57% of people aged 15 to 64 in Ballyhack had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Unemployment near the middle
11% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 2.9% 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.
Jobs and income in Ballyhack: the figures
Ballyhack has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
The share in work in Ballyhack: 57% of 15-to-64s
None of the 5 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Wexford has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 2.9% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 62% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 37% 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.
Median income per household in Ballyhack: €50,280
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Ballyhack 2% below the median for County Wexford as a whole, €51,437. No town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. Net of tax, it is €44,760. The State median is €60,123, 20% above Ballyhack’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Without a car, 6.6% of Ballyhack’s commuters get to work
More people work mainly from home here than in the middle of County Wexford: 13% against 7.8%. The car or van takes 80% of commuters; the middle of County Wexford has 77%. Almost no one goes by bus or rail, against 6% and 0.9% in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Ballyhack spends about as long getting to work or school as the middle of Irish towns
In the middle of County Wexford, the trip averages 25.2 minutes. Of the 5 towns of County Wexford counted, 3 have a shorter average trip. Under 15 minutes: 44% of trips, much as in the middle of County Wexford.
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.
Signing on in County Wexford since 2019
6,520 people were signing on in County Wexford in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count fell by 1%. For 73 months in a row now, it has been under its 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).
How much of Ballyhack can walk to everyday places
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.
Jobs and income in the places around Ballyhack
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyhack | 57% | 11% | €50K | 26.2 min | — | — |
| Grantstown and Ballinakill 7.3 km | 72% | 6% | €74K | 23.4 min | A+ | D |
| Grange Upper 8.7 km | 71% | 7.4% | €65K | 20 min | A | B+ |
| Grange 8.9 km | 64% | 13% | €46K | 20.7 min | C | C− |
| Ferrybank 9.1 km | 70% | 8.8% | €57K | 23.8 min | B+ | D |
| Waterford City Centre 10 km | 65% | 15% | €37K | 20.8 min | C− | A |
| Ballytruckle 10.2 km | 64% | 12% | €56K | 19.5 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 Ballyhack, 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 Ballyhack
What is the unemployment rate in Ballyhack?
11% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.9% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Ballyhack get to work?
80% of commuters go by car or van, 6.6% walk, 0% cycle and 0% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 13% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Ballyhack?
Trips to work, school or college take 26.2 minutes on average; 5.7% take an hour or more and 44% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Ballyhack?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Ballyhack’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Ballyhack 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 Ballyhack 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).