Economy, jobs and prices in Cork, Ireland: official figures

Census 2022 recorded an unemployment rate of 8.0% in Cork City (people looking for work as a share of the labour force aged 15+), below the national 8.3% and the lowest of 2 cities.

Census unemployment rate

8.0%

2022

How many people work from home in Cork?

38.9% of people aged 15+ who answered the question in Cork City worked from home at least some of the time in Census 2022, against 36.1% nationally.

Source: Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · saved copy

More figures

39.7% of people in Cork City belonged to the professional, managerial or technical social classes in Census 2022, the highest of 2 cities (Ireland: 39.9%). Source: Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · saved copy
Of the 103,249 residents of Cork City at work in Census 2022, 0.4% worked in agriculture, forestry and fishing and 17.0% in manufacturing (Ireland: 3.5% and 11.8%). Source: Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · saved copy
3.8% of commuters living in Cork City took an hour or more to reach work, school or college in Census 2022 (9.7% nationally). Source: Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · saved copy

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Sources

Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland: Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics (SAPS), all themes, by administrative county and city, read 24 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 32250e98c48a…)

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