Crosshaven has most voluntary workers

census-analysis — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:42:46 +0000

According to census figures from the latest 2006 census of Ireland – the town of Crosshaven in Cork has the highest percentage of voluntary workers in the Ireland.
22.2% of people aged over 15 in Crosshaven are involved in working for or helping with social, charitable, religious or sporting organisations.

Duleek on the other hand – has the lowest percantage of voluntary involvement - with just 9.67% of the over 15s reporting that they are doing some sort of voluntary work.

Towns dependent on Construction

census-analysis — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:47:34 +0000

Construction Workers in Ireland

The building and construction sector accounts for 8.69% of all the employment in Ireland – according to responses in the 2006 Census.

Some towns depend much more on construction for jobs than others – and could be harder hit if the slowdown in house building continues.

Gort – in Galway has a massive 23% of it’s workforce employed in building – almost one quarter of all jobs in the town.

These are the top ten towns (with populations over 1500) for construction-based work.

Gort 23.27%

Kanturk 18.64%

Ballaghaderreen 17.95 %

Carndonagh 17.59%

Dunmanway 16.66 %

Killorglin 16.46%

Enniscorthy 15.4%

Carrick-on-Suir 15%

Duleek 14.95%

Athboy 14.8%

The town with the least people occupied in the building industry is Annacotty – with just 3.16% of the workforce employed in the sector.

The towns of Malahide , Donabate , Portmarnock, Kinsealy-Drinan and Shannon all had less than 5% of their workforce in the building trade.

All figures calculated from the 2006 Census – taken in May 2006

Irish Towns Guide » Duleek

Crosshaven has most voluntary workers

Towns dependent on Construction