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

Census 2022 recorded an unemployment rate of 8.9% in Dublin City (people looking for work as a share of the labour force aged 15+), above the national 8.3% and the highest of 2 cities.

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• 38.2% of people in Dublin City belonged to the professional, managerial or technical social classes in Census 2022, the lowest of 2 cities (Ireland: 39.9%). Source: Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · saved copy
• Of the 300,209 residents of Dublin City at work in Census 2022, 0.1% worked in agriculture, forestry and fishing and 5.4% in manufacturing (Ireland: 3.5% and 11.8%). Source: Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · saved copy
• 8.4% of commuters living in Dublin 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
• 70% of people in Dublin were satisfied with public transport (EU quality of life in European cities survey, 2023). Source: Eurostat · saved copy
• 54% of people in Dublin agreed that it is easy to find a good job in the city (EU quality of life in European cities survey, 2023). Source: Eurostat · saved copy

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Sources

• Eurostat: Eurostat dataset urb_percep: Quality of life in European cities survey 2023: perception (cities), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 81bd3e277f3e…)
• 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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