Town with Most Catholics is Ballina
Census 2006 figures released last week – show that Ballina in Mayo has 92.9% of it’s population that stated their religion was Roman Catholic. Of all the towns with more than 5000 population – Ballina was the town with the highest percentage of Catholics.
The total percentage of Catholics in Ireland as a whole is 86.83%
Top Ten towns for percentages of Catholic residents:
Ballina 92.9%
Carrick-on-Suir 92.82%
Buncrana 92.54%
Thurles 92.37%
Clonmel 91.99%
Tipperary 91.47%
Dunboyne 91.41%
Newcastle West 91.33%
Mallow 91.24%
New Ross 90.96%
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Quiet Mornings in Letterkenny
The streets of Letterkenny must be quiet in the mornings. Letterkenny has the lowest percentage of workers who leave home before 6.30am to go to work. Just 2.24% of working people in Letterkenny said that they leave the house that early . Census 2006 figures from towns with more than 5000 people – show that 154 people out of 6883 in Letterkenny – said they have to leave the house before 6.30 in the morning.
At the other end of the scale we have Edenderry in Offaly where almost 1 in 5 workers (18.84%) have to leave home before 6.30.
Other irish towns where not many workers don’t get up before 6.30
Sligo 2.62%
Killarney 2.63%
Castlebar 2.9%
Passage West 3.24%
Ballina 3.26%
Westport 3.37%
Limerick City 3.59%
Cork City 3.63%
Carrigaline 3.73%
Dungarvan 3.74%
Galway City 3.78%
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Westport Workers get a Longer Lie in
According to census 2006 figures on the time that people leave the house to go to work – Westport has the highest percentage of workers who don’t leave the house until after 9.30 am. (Out of all towns with more than 5000 population)
298 workers in Westport out of 2013 (1.48%) said in the census that they left their house to go to work after 9.30am. Other towns with high percantages of late risers include Ballina Longford Birr
Castlebar Athlone Galway City Sligo Killarney .
At the opposite end of the scale is Lusk – where only 0.38% of workers manage to get such a good lie in each weekday.
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Longford tops Unemployment Blackspots
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%
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Tuam – highest percentage of Travellers
The 2006 census asked people if they were of Traveller background. In Tuam Co Galway - 7.81% of the town answered Yes – the highest percentage in Ireland. The town with the second highest concentration of Travellers is Longford at 4.63%. Other popular towns for travellers are:
Birr – 4.15%
Ballinasloe 3.2%
Ballina 2.83%
Tullamore 2.81%
Newcastle West 2.46%
Monaghan 2.21 %
New Ross 2.15%
Castlebar 2.04%
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