Cities with lowest unemployment in Ireland

Greystones-Delgany, Ireland has the lowest unemployment rate of the 25 cities compared: 5.5 % (CSO Census 2022 F7115 — unemployment rate by town, 2022-04-03).

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Ireland municipalities ranked by their own published total unemployment rate, without regional substitutes.

Items compared: 25
Countries represented: 1
Last checked: 2026-08-07

Source-backed answers

Compare each answer with its unit and checked date; the complete source ledger is below.

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Original rank	City or place	Published value		Source and scope
1	Greystones-Delgany, Ireland	5.5 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
2	Naas, Ireland	6.2 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
3	Celbridge, Ireland	6.3 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
4	Swords, Ireland	7 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
5	Cork, Ireland	8 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
6	Cork city and suburbs, Ireland	8 %	2026-08-07	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-12-31
7	Dublin, Ireland	8.3 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
8	Bray, Ireland	8.9 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
9	Galway, Ireland	9.2 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
10	Galway city and suburbs, Ireland	9.2 %	2026-08-07	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-12-31
11	Newbridge, Ireland	9.3 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
12	Ennis, Ireland	9.6 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
13	Kilkenny, Ireland	10.2 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
14	Navan, Ireland	10.4 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
15	Limerick, Ireland	10.9 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
16	Balbriggan, Ireland	11 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
17	Wexford, Ireland	11 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
18	Drogheda, Ireland	11.3 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
19	Sligo, Ireland	11.4 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
20	Letterkenny, Ireland	11.6 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
21	Waterford, Ireland	11.7 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
22	Mullingar, Ireland	12.2 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
23	Portlaoise, Ireland	12.2 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
24	Tralee, Ireland	13.8 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03
25	Dundalk, Ireland	14.2 %	2026-07-27	Source Scope: city · Period: 2022-04-03

What the numbers say

Greystones-Delgany, Ireland leads at 5.5 %.
Dundalk, Ireland sits at the other end with 14.2 %.
The middle of this ranking is 10.2 %, across 25 places that publish the metric.
The spread between first and last is 8.7 %.

Quick answer

What does Cities with lowest unemployment in Ireland show?

Greystones-Delgany, Ireland has the lowest unemployment rate of the 25 cities compared: 5.5 % (CSO Census 2022 F7115 — unemployment rate by town, 2022-04-03).

How this list is built

Every row is a published unemployment rate observation measured in %, ranked lowest first. The values were observed in 2022. A place appears only when it publishes this exact metric, so an absent place means missing data rather than a low value. Only published cities with at least 20,000 residents and city-level observations qualify.

Compare the displayed value, unit, source date and geographic grain together.
A city label does not change a regional observation into a city measurement.

Rows: 25 places
Geographic grain: city
Observation period: 2022-04-03 to 2022-12-31
Last checked: 2026-08-07
With an official source link: 25 of 25

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  title = {Cities with lowest unemployment in Ireland},
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Sources

CSO Census 2022 F7115 — unemployment rate by townCentral Statistics Office Ireland · Checked 2026-07-27