The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (05 December 2023) released Census 2022 Profile 7 – Employment, Occupations and Commuting. This press release highlights some of the main results for Tipperary. A full list of county press releases is available.
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Statistician's Comment
Commenting on the results, Dr. Tracy Clegg, Statistician in the Census Division, said: “Profile 7 covers the topics of Employment, Unemployment and Commuting providing statistics, analysis and data tables. The report looks at people at work or unemployed, occupations and industrial sectors as well as the commuting patterns of workers, students and children in school or childcare. New for Census 2022 are the additional topics of commuting to childcare and time leaving workplace, school, college or childcare giving more rounded information on travelling patterns as well as information on working from home.”
Some highlights for Tipperary
People at Work/Unemployed
More than 134,600 people living in the county in April 2022 were aged 15 and over and of these more than 73,200 people were at work. This was an increase of 15% (from the almost 63,500 people recorded as working in Census 2016). Nationally there were 2.3 million people at work in April 2022, which was up by 16%.
Almost 6,200 people were unemployed in the county in April 2022. This was considerably lower than the 2016 figure of almost 10,900 people (a decrease of 44%). The unemployment rate was 8% compared with 15% in 2016. Nationally there were almost 211,000 people unemployed compared with over 297,000 in Census 2016. The unemployment rate was 8% in 2022 compared with 13% in 2016.
There were more than 24,000 retired people in Tipperary, up 22% since Census 2016. There was a 15% increase in the number of people who were unable to work due to permanent sickness or disability to 7,572 people. The number of people looking after their home/family fell by 18% to almost 9,400.
The labour force participation rate was 59% in Tipperary compared with 61% nationally. Among females the rate was 53% while for males it was 65%. Nationally the trend was similar at 56% for female labour force participation and 67% for males.
Most people in work in Tipperary were in full-time employment, with nearly 54,600 people in this category, compared with over 11,400 who were working part-time.
Where people worked
Manufacturing accounted for the largest number of workers in the county at more than 10,400. The Wholesale and Retail Trade was the next largest, with almost 9,100 workers followed by Human Health and Social Work Activities with almost 8,400 workers.
Working From Home
A new question was included in Census 2022 asking people whether they ever worked from home and if so, for how many days per week. There were more than 73,200 people at work in Tipperary in April 2022. More than 47,300 never worked from home, while almost 17,700 people worked from home at least some of the time. Of those working from home, almost 3,900 people did so for five days per week, with 3,068 doing so for one day and 2,553 for two days each week.
Travelling to Work
There were 65,656 people travelling to work in the county in April 2022. The majority of these drove to work, with 44,595 people driving to work by car in 2022. There were 528 people travelling by bus, a rate of 1%, the lowest in the country. A further 312 people were travelling by train. Looking at active travel, 5,704 people walked to work, up from 5,057 in 2016, while 571 people cycled, an increase of 63 people since 2016.
Commuters in the county were travelling for longer in April 2022, with an average journey time of 27.1 minutes compared with 25.6 minutes in 2016. Nationally, the average journey time increased from 28.2 minutes to 29.1 minutes between 2016 and 2022.
There were 19,452 Tipperary commuters who had a journey time of less than 15 minutes, while 16,794 people had a journey time of 15 to 30 minutes. A further 6,917 people had a journey time of 60 minutes and over.
Travelling to School, College or Childcare
In Tipperary, more than 5,600 children aged under 5 travelled to childcare or school. Most of these (almost 4,800) travelled by car, while 524 walked and 75 went by bus.
Most of the 18,459 primary school aged children (5 to 12 years old) travelling to school in the county in April 2022 also travelled by car, with 12,315 doing so. Walking was the second most common means of travel at 2,635 children. A further 2,028 children used a bus while 94 cycled.
Of the 13,240 secondary students (those aged 13-18 years) travelling to school, 6,850 were driven to school in a car, while 376 drove themselves to school. There were 3,379 students using a bus, and 36 using the train. A further 1,912 students walked to school while 63 cycled.
For the 5,341 third-level students commuting, driving a car was the most popular means of travel, at 2,108 people. There were 1,015 students who walked, while 705 were driven. Another 682 students travelled by bus while 227 travelled by Train, DART or Luas.