Photo: Simon Mortimer · CC BY-SA 2.0Making a living in Barndarrig
The mean journey from Barndarrig lasts 28.7 minutes, and 8.9% exceed an hour. At the 2022 census, 12% of the labour force in Barndarrig had no job, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. Barndarrig isn’t graded for jobs and income: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Work in Barndarrig: the figures worth knowing
Fewer people in work than most towns
60% of people aged 15 to 64 in Barndarrig had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Unemployment near the middle
12% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns; 2.6% 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 Barndarrig: the figures
Barndarrig has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
In Barndarrig, 60% of the working-age population has a job
None of the 9 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Wicklow has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 2.6% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 38% had been out of work that long. Counting everyone aged 15 and over, retirees and students included, 51% 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.
Barndarrig at the median: €65,160 a household
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
That puts Barndarrig 2% above the median for County Wicklow as a whole, €64,077. 4 of the county’s 9 towns of 2,500 people or more have a higher median. Net of tax, it is €55,880. Across Ireland the median household has €60,123, 8% below Barndarrig’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Barndarrig gets to work without a car for 4.3% of commuters
Working mainly from home: 14% here, 11% in the middle of Irish towns. Buses carry 2.1% of commuters, where the middle of Irish towns has 6%. The middle of Irish towns has 10% walking to work; here it is 1.1%. Most go by car or van: 82% of commuters.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Getting to work or school from Barndarrig takes about as long as in the middle of Irish towns
In the middle of County Wicklow, the trip averages 31.6 minutes. Among County Wicklow’s 9 towns counted, 1 have shorter trips on average. Under 15 minutes: 24% of trips, next to 36% in the middle of County Wicklow. Trips of 15 to 44 minutes are the most common, at 59% (middle of County Wicklow: 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.
People signing on in County Wicklow, against 2019
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).
Everyday places within walking distance in Barndarrig
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.
Barndarrig and its neighbours: work and income
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barndarrig | 60% | 12% | €65K | 28.7 min | — | — |
| Rathdrum 8.3 km | 67% | 10% | €57K | 33.1 min | C | C+ |
| Wicklow 8.6 km | 68% | 9.3% | €64K | 32.3 min | B− | C |
| Rathnew 8.9 km | 61% | 14% | €50K | 27 min | D | D |
| Ashford 10.9 km | 70% | 9.1% | €68K | 34.8 min | B− | D |
| Arklow 13.2 km | 63% | 11% | €50K | 29.1 min | C− | C |
| Aughrim 15.5 km | 63% | 9.8% | €53K | 34.7 min | C− | D |
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 Barndarrig, 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 Barndarrig
What is the unemployment rate in Barndarrig?
12% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 2.6% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Barndarrig get to work?
82% of commuters go by car or van, 1.1% walk, 0% cycle and 3.2% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 14% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Barndarrig?
Trips to work, school or college take 28.7 minutes on average; 8.9% take an hour or more and 24% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Barndarrig?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Barndarrig’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Barndarrig 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 Barndarrig 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).