Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0Earning a living in Laragh
At the 2022 census, 12% of the labour force in Laragh had no job, where the middle of Irish towns has 9.2%. Trips to work, school or college from Laragh take 34.7 minutes on average, and 17% take an hour or more. The Jobs & income Grade leaves out Laragh: it has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts.
Work in Laragh, in a few figures
Work near the middle
73% of people aged 15 to 64 in Laragh 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 34.7 minutes on average, against 27.6 in the middle of Irish towns; 17% 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.
Jobs and income in Laragh: the figures
Laragh has under 1,000 residents, where the grade starts. The figures on this page are still its own.
Getting to work or school from Laragh takes more time than in the middle of Irish towns
The trip from the middle of County Wicklow averages 31.6 minutes. Among County Wicklow’s 9 towns counted, 9 have shorter trips on average. Under 15 minutes: 32% of trips, next to 36% in the middle of County Wicklow. The commonest trip is 15 to 44 minutes, for 42% of trips, much as 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.
What Laragh does for a living
The second-largest is Professional services, health and education, at 20% (against 25% across Irish towns), and farming, forestry and fishing is the smallest of the seven, at 1.3%.
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.
Laragh at work: 73% of people aged 15 to 64
All 9 other places of 2,500 people or more in County Wicklow have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
3.4% of everyone aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more. Put another way, 43% of the unemployed had been out of work for a year or more. Of all residents aged 15 and over, retirees and students among them, 61% 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.
Laragh at the median: €58,370 a household
Before tax, 2022; the middle of Irish towns is €57,760.
Laragh’s median is 9% below County Wicklow’s (€64,077). Of the county’s 9 towns of 2,500 or more, 6 have a higher median. After tax, the median is €49,520. The State median is €60,123, 3% above Laragh’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
Laragh gets to work without a car for 15% of commuters
Mainly from home: 11% of residents in work, much as in the middle of Irish towns. The bus takes 0.5% of commuters, against 6% in the middle of Irish towns. More people walk to work here than in the middle of County Wicklow: 13% against 6.7%. The car or van takes 74% of commuters, close to the middle of County Wicklow.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
Signing on in County Wicklow since 2019
4,688 people were signing on in County Wicklow in September 2026. Over the year to September 2026, the count 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 Laragh, 61% of adults are in work
Compared with Irish towns, 2.7% 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.
Everyday places a walk away in Laragh
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.
Work next door to Laragh
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laragh | 73% | 12% | €58K | 34.7 min | — | — |
| Rathdrum 9.3 km | 67% | 10% | €57K | 33.1 min | C | C+ |
| Ashford 12 km | 70% | 9.1% | €68K | 34.8 min | B− | D |
| Rathnew 14.8 km | 61% | 14% | €50K | 27 min | D | D |
| Newtownmountkennedy 15.3 km | 71% | 8% | €66K | 30.7 min | B+ | B |
| Aughrim 16.7 km | 63% | 9.8% | €53K | 34.7 min | C− | D |
| Wicklow 16.9 km | 68% | 9.3% | €64K | 32.3 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 Laragh, 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 Laragh
What is the unemployment rate in Laragh?
12% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.4% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
How do people in Laragh get to work?
74% of commuters go by car or van, 13% walk, 0.9% cycle and 1% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 11% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Laragh?
Trips to work, school or college take 34.7 minutes on average; 17% take an hour or more and 32% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Laragh?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Laragh’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Laragh 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 Laragh 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).