Photo: Tom Nolan · CC BY-SA 2.0The share of 15-to-64s with a job in Tinahely trails that of 71% of Irish towns
Trips to work, school or college from Tinahely take 29.1 minutes on average, and 14% take an hour or more. The 2022 census put unemployment in Tinahely at 9.5% (the middle of Irish towns: 9.2%). For jobs and income, Tinahely earns a grade of C.
Tinahely at work: what stands out
Work near the middle
64% of people aged 15 to 64 in Tinahely had a job at the 2022 census; the middle of Irish towns is 68%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household in Tinahely had €48,710 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 ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022, CSO household income 2022 and the Live Register.
Jobs and income in Tinahely earn C
With four measures combined, it comes out better than 30% of Irish towns.
Its strongest measure is the unemployment rate; its weakest, the share of 15-to-64s in work.
Graded against Irish towns of 1,000 people or more; a shorter trip and less unemployment count in its favor.
Ranks start at 2,500 residents, so this grade has no rank.
How the grade works
Four measures, weighed equally against every Irish town of 1,000 people or more: median gross household income (CSO, 2022), people at work as a share of residents aged 15 to 64, the unemployment rate and the average trip to work, school or college (all three Census 2022). Each becomes a percentile; their average sets the letter.
What households earn in Tinahely: €48,710 a year
Before tax, 2022: lower than in 67% of Irish towns.
That puts Tinahely 24% below the median for County Wicklow as a whole, €64,077. Every town of 2,500 or more in the county has a higher median. Net of tax, it is €43,170. The State median is €60,123, 23% above Tinahely’s.
CSO Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022: median gross household income, from tax and welfare records linked to Census households.
What Tinahely does for a living
The second-largest is Manufacturing, at 23% (against 11% across Irish towns), and public administration is the smallest of the seven, at 4.1%.
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.
In Tinahely, 64% of the working-age population has a job
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.
Long-term unemployment, a year or more out of work, covered 3.1% of people aged 15 and over. Among the unemployed, 58% 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.
Walk, cycle, bus or train: the choice of 10% of Tinahely’s commuters
Working mainly from home: 5.5% here, 11% in the middle of Irish towns. By bus: 0.3% of commuters, next to 6% in the middle of Irish towns. The car or van carries most commuters: 84%.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), means of travel to work.
A run to work or school from Tinahely much like the middle of Irish towns
For the middle of County Wicklow, the average trip is 31.6 minutes. Of the 9 towns of County Wicklow counted, 1 have a shorter average trip. 41% of trips take under 15 minutes, 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 many sign on in County Wicklow: the count 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%. 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).
51% of Tinahely’s adults have a job
The mix is close to Irish towns’ as a whole.
Census 2022 (CSO SAPS), principal economic status of people aged 15 and over; occupations of those at work, in three broad groups.
Walkability in Tinahely: graded C+
Better than 39% of Irish towns on two measures together.
Fewest residents live within 800 m of a food shop: 79%.
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.
Tinahely and its neighbours: work and income
| Town | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tinahely | 64% | 9.5% | €49K | 29.1 min | C | C+ |
| Carnew 10 km | 58% | 15% | €45K | 26.4 min | D− | D |
| Aughrim 10.8 km | 63% | 9.8% | €53K | 34.7 min | C− | D |
| Gorey 17.2 km | 64% | 12% | €50K | 28.5 min | C− | C+ |
| Rathvilly 18.7 km | 66% | 9.3% | €53K | 34 min | C | D− |
| Tullow 18.8 km | 64% | 12% | €47K | 25.1 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 Tinahely, 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 Tinahely
What is the unemployment rate in Tinahely?
9.5% of the labour force was out of work at the 2022 census, against 9.2% in the middle of Irish towns. 3.1% of people aged 15 and over had been out of work for a year or more.
Is Tinahely a good place to find work?
Tinahely earns a C for jobs and income, better than 30% of Irish towns on household income, the share of 15-to-64s in work, unemployment and trip times together.
How do people in Tinahely get to work?
84% of commuters go by car or van, 8.9% walk, 0.3% cycle and 0.8% take the bus or train. On census day 2022, 5.5% worked mainly from home.
How long is the commute from Tinahely?
Trips to work, school or college take 29.1 minutes on average; 14% take an hour or more and 41% under a quarter of an hour.
How many jobs are there in Tinahely?
Ireland doesn’t publish a count of the jobs based in each town. What the census does say is what Tinahely’s residents work at, wherever their job is: see What residents work in.
Where do people in Tinahely 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 Tinahely travel and how long their trips take.
Sources: CSO Census 2022 SAPS · CSO Geographical Profiles of Income 2022 · CSO Live Register (LRM07) · OpenStreetMap (ODbL) · grades: TownRatings. 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).