Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Ballyknockan at work: jobs, income and the commute
5.6% of the labour force in Ballyknockan was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. Trips to work, school or college from Ballyknockan take 45.6 minutes on average, and 25% take an hour or more. The Jobs & income Grade leaves out Ballyknockan: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
The work numbers behind Ballyknockan
More people in work than most towns
75% of people aged 15 to 64 in Ballyknockan had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
5.6% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 1% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Unemployment ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
The median household in Ballyknockan had €71,090 a year before tax in 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760. CSO publishes no income figure for this place, so this one is our estimate from its electoral divisions. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Trips to work, school or college take 45.6 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 25% 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.
No Jobs & income Grade for Ballyknockan
Ballyknockan has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Ballyknockan, 75% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
All 9 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Wicklow have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
1% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Among the unemployed, 28% had been out of work that long. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 60% 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.
Before tax, the median household in Ballyknockan has €71,090
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Ballyknockan’s median is 11% above County Wicklow’s (€64,077). One of the county’s 9 towns of 2,500 people or more has a higher median. After tax, the median is €60,760. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 15% below Ballyknockan’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
A slower run to work or school from Ballyknockan than in the middle of Irish towns
For the middle of County Wicklow, the average trip is 31.6 minutes. Among County Wicklow’s 9 towns counted, 9 have shorter trips on average. 12% of trips take under 15 minutes, against 36% in the middle of County Wicklow. The commonest trip is 15 to 44 minutes, for 47% of trips; the middle of County Wicklow has 41%.
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.
For 6.5% of Ballyknockan’s commuters, the trip is on foot, by bike, bus or train
By bus: 3.7% of commuters, next to 6% in the middle of Irish towns. The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking to work; here it is 0.9%. 82% of commuters go by car or van. 11% work mainly from home, about the same as in the middle of Irish towns.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
The Live Register in County Wicklow, month by month
4,688 people were signing on in County Wicklow in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count rose by 3%. For 49 months in a row now, it has been under its 2019 average. Its lowest month since 2019 was November 2024, at 4,389. County Wicklow saw its highest month in July 2020: 6,173 people signing on, 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).
Shops, schools and services on foot in Ballyknockan
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 (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 Ballyknockan
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyknockan | 75% | 5.6% | €71K | 45.6 min | — | — |
| Blessington 7.6 km | 69% | 7.2% | €69K | 31.6 min | B | C− |
| Dunlavin 14.4 km | 62% | 12% | €54K | 27.7 min | C− | D− |
| Johnstown 16.4 km | 68% | 5.8% | €80K | 33.3 min | B | D− |
| Kilcullen 16.8 km | 73% | 6.4% | €66K | 28.6 min | A− | D |
| Kill 16.9 km | 74% | 6.1% | €75K | 32.1 min | A− | D |
| Naas 16.9 km | 73% | 6.2% | €82K | 32.2 min | A− | 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 Ballyknockan, 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 Ballyknockan
What is the unemployment rate in Ballyknockan?
5.6% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 1% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Ballyknockan get to work?
82% of commuters go by car or van, 0.9% walk, 1.9% cycle and 3.7% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 11% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Ballyknockan?
Trips to work, school or college take 45.6 minutes on average; 25% take an hour or more and 12% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Ballyknockan?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Ballyknockan’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Ballyknockan 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 Ballyknockan 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).