Peter 'Chap' Cleere
Question:211. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Taoiseach the employment rate in County Carlow; the way in which this compares to other counties. [15952/26]
View answerTuesday, 3 March 2026
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The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available.
The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the official source of estimates of employment in the State. The most recent figures available are for Q4 2025.
Due to the methodology and sample size of the survey it is not possible to produce reliable county estimates from the LFS.
Regional estimates of employment are produced by NUTS 3 level. NUTS are the geocode standard developed and regulated by Eurostat.
The NUTS 3 South-East region includes counties Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford and Waterford.
The employment rate (ILO) for persons aged 15-64 for the South-East region in Q4 2025 was 71.9%, a decrease of 0.9 percentage points from the rate 72.8% recorded a year earlier.
The employment rate (ILO) for persons aged 15-64 for the State in Q4 2025 was 74.5%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from the rate 74.3% recorded a year earlier.
While the information at county level is not provided by the LFS, there is supplementary information available from Revenue’s administrative PAYE data which provides further insight on employments.
Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources (EAADS) outputs contain employment figures on an annual basis. It should be noted that EAADS estimates are for employees only, and do not include persons who are self-employed. Please also note that the estimate provided by EAADS relate to the number of employments, rather than number of employees. The annual employment estimates from the EAADS dataset are restricted to employments which were active during the month of October, in line with Eurostat requirements relating to Structure of Earnings Statistics. The EAADS time series begins in 2011 and the most recent figures available are for 2024.
In 2024, there were 27,457 employments among those usually resident in County Carlow. This compares with Dublin which had the highest number of employments at 722,606, and Leitrim which had the lowest number of employments (14,977).
Table 1 shows the total number of employments by county, 2022-2024 (EAADS).
Table 1: Number of employments by county based on administrative data sources, 2022 - 2024
|
|
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
|
Carlow |
26,296 |
26,485 |
27,457 |
|
Cavan |
33,669 |
33,984 |
35,774 |
|
Clare |
54,082 |
54,688 |
57,579 |
|
Cork |
257,175 |
260,989 |
268,404 |
|
Donegal |
61,970 |
62,954 |
66,979 |
|
Dublin |
685,920 |
705,926 |
722,606 |
|
Galway |
123,088 |
127,072 |
130,355 |
|
Kerry |
63,292 |
63,603 |
68,039 |
|
Kildare |
115,551 |
118,357 |
121,254 |
|
Kilkenny |
43,843 |
44,272 |
46,475 |
|
Laois |
38,680 |
39,654 |
41,085 |
|
Leitrim |
14,000 |
14,287 |
14,977 |
|
Limerick |
86,978 |
90,525 |
92,711 |
|
Longford |
18,042 |
18,337 |
19,035 |
|
Louth |
60,499 |
61,474 |
64,377 |
|
Mayo |
57,802 |
57,452 |
61,161 |
|
Meath |
99,933 |
102,196 |
105,699 |
|
Monaghan |
27,306 |
27,372 |
28,979 |
|
Offaly |
34,847 |
35,188 |
36,889 |
|
Roscommon |
28,894 |
28,874 |
30,551 |
|
Sligo |
29,569 |
30,000 |
30,968 |
|
Tipperary |
70,377 |
69,814 |
73,717 |
|
Waterford |
53,775 |
53,941 |
56,241 |
|
Westmeath |
41,785 |
42,318 |
44,339 |
|
Wexford |
67,142 |
67,461 |
70,431 |
|
Wicklow |
66,699 |
66,686 |
69,810 |
|
Total |
2,403,103 |
2,464,801 |
2,539,554 |
Source: CSO, Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources (EAADS)