Edenderry in County Offaly has the highest percentage of early risers out of all the towns in Ireland with a population of over 5000.
According to Census 2006 figures - 18.84% of workers in Edenderry have to leave their house before 6.30am to go to work. (498 workers out of 2963) The top 10 towns for leaving home before 6.30am are:
Edenderry
Portarlington
Navan (An Uaimh)
Athy
Ceannanus Mór
Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington
Rush
Trim
Kildare
Balbriggan
The town of Longford has the highest unemployment rate in Ireland - of all towns over 1500 population.
Census figures show that the percentage of unemployed people in Longford is 11.14% - compared to a national figure of 5.89%. Longford has almost double the average rate of unemployment.
Top Ten Towns for Worst Unemployment
Rathnew
Abbeyfeale
New Ross
Ballina (Mayo)
Carrick-on-Suir
Enniscorthy
Athy
Castlecomer-Donaguile
Cootehill
All these towns have rates of unemployment above 8.68%
Africans in Ireland
Of all the towns with a population over 5000 - Balbriggan Co Dublin has the highest concentration of residents of African Ethnic origin. In Balbriggan 5.85% of the population recorded their ethnic origin as African in the 2006 census (890 people).
In all of Ireland there were 39734 people of African origin - that is 0.98% of the total population.
Other towns in Ireland (5000 plus population) where the percentage of Africans is over 3% :Longford 4.1%
Athy 4.02%
Lusk 3.64%
Ennis 3.61%
Dundalk 3.53%
Drogheda 3.25%
Navan 3.18%
Kilkenny 3.05%
According to the census returns there are only 3 Africans in the town of Dungarvan. (It is possible that people did not answer the question) - so this town has the lowest percentage of Africans in Ireland at 0.037.
The percentage of African residents is also low in Roscommon Town (2) , Newcastle West (4) and Tipperary Town (5)