Photo: Sue Mischyshyn · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Avoca
People heading out of Avoca for work or study spend 33.5 minutes travelling on average; 16% spend 60 minutes or longer. Avoca isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Where Avoca stands out on work
Work near the middle
65% of people aged 15 to 64 in Avoca had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 33.5 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 16% 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.
Work and pay in Avoca, ungraded
Avoca has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
More time on the road to work or school from Avoca than in the middle of Irish towns
Trips of 15 to 44 minutes are the most common, at 42%, close to the middle of County Wicklow. Across County Wicklow, the middle town’s trips average 31.6 minutes. Of the 9 towns of County Wicklow counted, 7 have a shorter average trip. Trips of under 15 minutes are 30% of the total, against 36% in the middle of County Wicklow.
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.
How long trips to work, school or college take, 2022 census (trips whose length wasn’t stated left out).
In Avoca, 23% of residents in work are in commerce and trade
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.
People living here who are in work, by the industry they work in, wherever their job is (2022 census).
65% of Avoca’s 15-to-64s are in work
Of the 9 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Wicklow, 3 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Of those in the labour force, 11% were out of work, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 4% of people aged 15 and over. Put another way, 63% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 52% 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.
Avoca households: €59,560 a year at the median
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Avoca 7% below the median for County Wicklow as a whole, €64,077. Of the county’s 9 towns of 2,500 or more, 6 have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €51,480. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 1% above Avoca’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Avoca gets to work without a car for 11% of commuters
Most go by car or van: 76% of commuters. Buses carry 1.3% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 6%. Walking takes 8.3% of commuters and cycling 0.3%, where the middle of Irish towns has 10% and 2.4%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
How residents in work get there (2022 census; people working mainly from home included).
County Wicklow on the Live Register since 2019
4,688 people were signing on in County Wicklow in September 2026. Set against a year before, the count in September 2026 rose by 3%. It has stayed below its 2019 average for the last 49 months. Its lowest month since 2019 was November 2024, at 4,389. County Wicklow: signing on peaked in July 2020 at 6,173, 13% 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).
In Avoca, 52% of adults are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 19% are retired (against 15%).
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Everyone aged 15 and over, by what they said they mainly do (2022 census), and the jobs of those in work.
How much of Avoca can walk to everyday places
Not graded: the Walkability grade starts at 1,000 residents.
Of the everyday places, a food shop is the one the fewest residents have within 800 m (72%).
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.
Next to Avoca: how nearby places compare
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avoca | 65% | 11% | €60K | 33.5 min | — | — |
| Arklow 7.4 km | 63% | 11% | €50K | 29.1 min | C− | C |
| Aughrim 7.8 km | 63% | 9.8% | €53K | 34.7 min | C− | D |
| Rathdrum 8.7 km | 67% | 10% | €57K | 33.1 min | C | C+ |
| Rathnew 17.4 km | 61% | 14% | €50K | 27 min | D | D |
| Wicklow 17.5 km | 68% | 9.3% | €64K | 32.3 min | B− | C |
| Tinahely 17.5 km | 64% | 9.5% | €49K | 29.1 min | C | 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 Avoca, 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 Avoca
What is the unemployment rate in Avoca?
11% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 4% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Avoca get to work?
76% of commuters go by car or van, 8.3% walk, 0.3% cycle and 2.6% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 11% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Avoca?
Trips to work, school or college take 33.5 minutes on average; 16% take an hour or more and 30% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Avoca?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Avoca’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Avoca 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 Avoca 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).