Census 2006 - A Profile of the Working Population of Large Towns

This report examines the towns in Ireland with a working population in excess of 5,000 persons in April 2006 and provides profiles for each of the 27 towns involved. These profiles focus on the principal characteristics of the relevant workers including their commuting patterns, the industries in which they were employed and their educational and socio-economic characteristics. The analysis draws on the Place of Work Census of Anonymised Records (POWCAR1) data set. Analyses of towns provided in previous Census 2006 reports were based on the resident populations of these towns. Utilising the POWCAR data, the present report provides a more refined analysis of the working population of the main centres of employment in April 2006. The following three components of the working population are distinguished separately: workers commuting into the town; persons leaving to work elsewhere and those who both live and work in the town. Also included are data relating to journey times and means of travel to work.