The Central Statistics Office has today published Census 2022 Profile 7: Employment, Occupations and Commuting – https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cpp7/census2022profile7-employmentoccupationsandcommuting/

Profile 7 looks at 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.

This profile shows that almost 170,600 people living in the county in April 2022 were aged 15 and over and of these more than 101,200 people were at work. This was an increase of 22% (from the almost 83,300 people recorded as working in Census 2016).

The press statement for Meath is available here – https://www.cso.ie/en/csolatestnews/pressreleases/2023pressreleases/pressstatementcensus2022resultsprofile7-employmentoccupationsandcommutingmeath/

The national press statement is available here – https://www.cso.ie/en/csolatestnews/pressreleases/2023pressreleases/pressstatementcensus2022resultsprofile7-employmentoccupationsandcommuting/

Press statements for the other counties are available here – https://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2022/census2022profile7countypressstatements/

The Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics (SAPS) are also available and include Census 2022 results, across all 15 themes, for a range of geographies including town, local electoral area, electoral divisions, counties and provinces.

If you have any queries on Profile 7, or any other Census 2022 Results, or if you would prefer not to receive any further census emails, please contact us at censuspublicity@cso.ie