Towns dependent on Construction

Posted on October 15th, 2007 in Annacotty,Athboy,Ballaghaderreen,Carndonagh,Carrick-on-Suir,Donabate,Duleek,Dunmanway,Enniscorthy,Gort,Kanturk,Killorglin,Kinsealy-Drinan,Portmarnock,Shannon by census-analysis

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

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  1. michael foley said,

    on March 3rd, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    what a town ha?? My daddy is in the building sector truying to get us up from the bottom

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