Irish Towns Guide

Most of the date used on this site is from the Census – but a recent interesting  litter survey was published on all towns in Ireland with more than 6000 population.
The littering survey ranked the 50 towns in order of cleanest first, The full table is shown below (From the Irish Business Against Litter). Sligo came out worst (dirtiest) and Dundalk came out the best (cleanest)

1. Dundalk “Litter Free”
2. Cavan “Litter Free”
3. Fermoy “Litter Free”
4. Trim “Litter Free”
5. Killarney “Litter Free”
6. Monaghan “Litter Free”
7. Carlow “Litter Free”
8. Galway City “Litter Free”
9. Youghal “Litter Free”
10. Bray “Litter Free”
11. Letterkenny “Litter Free”
12. Ballina “Litter Free”
13. Naas “Litter Free”
14. Roscommon “Litter Free”
15. Thurles “Litter Free”
16. Drogheda “Litter Free”
17. Athy “Litter Free”
18. Waterford City “Litter Free”
19. Midleton “Litter Free”
20. Wexford “Litter Free”
21. Arklow “Litter Free”
22. Castlebar “Litter Free”

23. Swords “Moderately Littered”
24. Ballinasloe “Moderately Littered”
25. Maynooth “Moderately Littered”
26. Kilkenny “Moderately Littered”
27. Greystones “Moderately Littered”
28. Tralee “Moderately Littered”
29. Portlaoise “Moderately Littered”
30. Gorey “Moderately Littered”
31. Ennis “Moderately Littered”
32. Leixlip “Moderately Littered”
33. Longford “Moderately Littered”
34. Limerick City “Moderately Littered”
35. Cobh “Moderately Littered”
36. Clonmel “Moderately Littered”

37. Dungarvan “Littered”
38. Wicklow “Littered”
39. Tullamore “Littered”
40. Mullingar “Littered”
41. Newbridge “Littered”
42. Navan “Littered”

43. Athlone “Seriously Littered”
44. Dun Laoghaire “Seriously Littered”
45. Cork City “Seriously Littered”
46. Enniscorthy “Seriously Littered”

47. Mallow “Litter Blackspot”
48. Tallaght “Litter Blackspot”
49. Nenagh “Litter Blackspot”
50. Sligo “Litter Blackspot”

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Tipperary town came third in our chart of worst place to live in Ireland . Based on census 2006  information we have compiled a top 20 best and worst places to live in Ireland. Of course people will disagree with these positions – but thay are based on facts and figures like unemployment, housing, lone parents and education.

At the 2006 census 2006 – the population of Tipperary Town was 5065 .The unemployment rate was 7.6% – this compares badly with a  National Average of 5.92%
In Tipperary – 7.72% of the workforce are unable to work because of disability or ill health – which is over 40% above the national average of 4.71% .
Of those people in work – the largest proportion are employed in sales (15.49% of the workforce) .Lone parent households in Tipperary- make up 28.73% of all households. This is the highest in Ireland and about 30% above the National average.

Local Authority rented homes make up 15.94% of the dwelling units in Tipperary – the sixth highest percentage in Ireland.
Rented homes make up 36.46% of all homes in Tipperary – slightly above the average for Ireland of 28.1%.
35.64% of occupied houses in Tipperary are owned outright – with no mortgage outstanding. This compares with an average of 28% across Ireland as a whole.

Heating: 21.56% of all dwellings in Tipperary have no central heating – which is more than double the average for the country as a whole (10.22%).
I.T. : 36.36% of households own personal computers in Tipperary – compared to 53.3% nationally. Only 11.4% had broadband at the last census – much lower than the Irish average at the time of 20.18% . Also – 71% of homes had no internet access at all in Tipperary – compared to the average of 51%

Education : 24.98% of the people living in Tipperary — only went as far as primary school or had no formal education at all. This is very close to 50% above the national average of 16.72%
People with a third level degree or a higher qualification – make up just 8.7% of the Tipperary workforce – which is almost half the national average of 16.57%

Community involvement in Tipperary is just below the average for the country. In Tipperary 14.9 % of the over 15s said they carry out some sort of voluntary work compared to the national average of 15.42%

The percentage of people with a disability in Tipperary is above the national average of 9.8% at 14.9%.

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