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Agriland
24-04-2025
- Business
- Agriland
Rural Ireland's lower household incomes highlighted in report
Irish Rural Link has warned that lower incomes in rural areas are a direct 'reflection of the quality of jobs' available in some areas. The national network representing the interest of rural communities has welcomed the findings of a report issued this week by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on the Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland 2022. Source: CSO According to Irish Rural Link the CSO report confirms what it has repeatedly highlighted in relation to low incomes of rural households 'for many years' . The CSO report set out that the Carndonagh local electoral area in Donegal had the lowest household income of €35,614, with the household income for Lifford of €31,959. Donegal as a whole had the lowest household income in the country at €42,497. Leitrim, Longford and Kerry had the lowest household income in their region at €45,267, €47,217 and €48,320 respectively. Irish Rural Link said: 'Many of the jobs in these counties and within the rural towns of these counties are minimum wage, and have precarious working hours, in sectors like tourism, retail, low skill manufacturing. 'We know from our members and research from colleagues in Vincentian MESL research centre that households in rural areas working in minimum wage jobs have a deeper income inadequacy than peer households in urban areas. 'The extra cost of keeping a car on the road, and for most families, two cars, adds to family household expenses.' Job creation The group believes that although remote working 'is not a silver bullet' it can go some way to improve job opportunities in rural Ireland. 'We continue to call for a more regionally balanced approach to job creation, and also better recognition of the jobs created in sectors of tourism, retail, and hospitality that are important contributors to the overall economy,' it added. Irish Rural Link represents the interests of locally based groups in disadvantaged and marginalised areas by highlighting problems, advocating appropriate policies, sharing experiences, and examples of good practice. It has a membership of over 600 rural community groups dedicated to sustainable development and represents communities at a national and international level.
The Journal
23-04-2025
- Business
- The Journal
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown has wealthiest households with €85,000 average income
PEOPLE LIVING IN Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown have the highest incomes for a council area, according to the Central Statistics Office. The median gross household income in the area was €84,991, according to CSO figures for 2022. This compared with Longford, which had the lowest in Leinster at €47,217. The local election area with the highest household income was Stillorgan at almost €100,000, followed by Blackrock at €94,381. The figures came in the CSO's Geographical Profiles of Income in Ireland for 2022. By local authority and province, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown had the highest median gross household income in Leinster, while Longford had the lowest. In Munster, Cork County had the highest median gross household income at €60,906, while Kerry had the lowest at €48,320. The highest median gross household income by local authority in Connacht was in Galway County at €59,895, and the lowest was in Leitrim at €45,267. In Ulster, the highest median gross household income was in Cavan at €52,321, while Donegal had the lowest at €42,497. Advertisement The local election areas with the highest median gross household income were Stillorgan at €99,352, Blackrock at €94,381, Pembroke at €92,341, Glencullen-Sandyford at €92,431, and Ratoath in Meath with €88,796. The lowest was Ballymun-Finglas at €53,184. The three towns with the highest median gross household income were in Leinster: Malahide in Dublin with €97,168, Ratoath in Meath at €96,273, and Donabate in Dublin at €95,871. Bearna in Galway was fourth highest in the state, and the highest in Connacht, with a median gross income of €90,881. The town with the highest median gross household income in Munster was Annacotty in Limerick (€90,182), while in in Ulster it was Kingscourt in Cavan (€54,739). Lifford in Donegal had the lowest median gross household of €31,959. Just under half of households in Ireland had a gross household income of less than €60,000 in 2022, increasing to almost two-thirds in Donegal and falling to just over a third in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. At the upper end of the income distribution, 4.3% of households had a gross income of €200,000 or above, decreasing to 1% in Donegal and rising to 14.6% in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. Eva O'Regan, statistician in the Income, Consumption and Wealth (ICW) division, said: 'This release, published as a CSO Frontier Series Output, produces household income statistics using administrative data. 'Estimates are provided at multiple levels of geography, including by county, administrative county (local authority), local electoral area (LEA) and electoral division. 'It is worth noting that administrative data is pseudonymised prior to any statistical analysis taking place to protect the privacy of individuals.'
