Who walks or cycles
to work in Ireland?

Pick one population, then compare places. The age groups are separate census populations—not the same people changing habits as they age. This describes journeys, not fitness. Distance, disability, caring responsibilities and safe infrastructure affect the options people have.

Cork City and County are combined in this source. Dublin has four areas; Galway has two. These are 30 census areas, not 31 local authorities or 26 interchangeable county totals.

Dublin City is 16.3 percentage points above the State for workers aged 15+.

Built by No Nonsense Fitness from Central Statistics Office public tables. Census date: 3 April 2022. Tables published 5 December 2023; retrieved 2026-09-11. These are census observations, not a 2026 estimate of activity. Coverage is the Republic of Ireland, not Northern Ireland.

Three tables, one useful view

• F7065: main means of travel in 2022, by county/city, sex and work or education population.
• F7122: national main means of travel, census observations from 1986 to 2022.
• F7068: worker journey-time counts and published mean minutes, 2011, 2016 and 2022, by county/city and sex.

What we calculate

Walking + cycling share = (on foot + bicycle) ÷ all means of travel × 100. The denominator includes people whose mode was not stated. Differences are percentage points, calculated before rounding. We retain raw counts and display shares to one decimal place. No weights, composite scores or fitness rankings.

County comparisons use the same year, population and sex. State shares use the State counts, not an average of county percentages. The journey-time mean is the CSO’s published mean among those with a stated duration, not a mean reconstructed from time bands. We show its known-duration denominator separately.

People, boundaries and exclusions

The travel population is people usually resident and present in the State in the relevant work or education category. Workers mainly at or from home are outside this commuting population; hybrid work does not imply five commuting days. Ages 0–4 are excluded from this tool. Age bands describe the source populations, not exact school sectors. Sex labels follow the historical census categories.

Cork is combined in the published geography; we do not invent separate city counts. National history and county journey times are joined by explicit source IDs, year and sex. Comparing school pupils with workers does not measure the same people changing behaviour as they age. Urban form, distance and population mix prevent a fair “best county” league table.

Missing data and limits

“Not stated” is a response category, not zero activity. Null cells remain unavailable and zero denominators produce no percentage. The selected source snapshots contain no null cells, but they do contain substantial non-response. Main mode misses walking segments attached to bus or train journeys, recreational activity, work activity, intensity and frequency. There is no measure of route quality, gym access, total exercise, obesity or inactivity here.

Reuse and updates

Source: Central Statistics Office, Ireland. Statistical data licensed CC BY 4.0, permitting public and commercial reuse with attribution. NNF calculations and charts are adaptations, released under the same licence; no CSO endorsement implied. We use no CSO logo. CSO reuse policy.

Update cycle follows census releases and revisions. Download via the public JSON-stat API → validate dimensions and counts → join by source IDs → derive shares → generate static HTML, CSV, JSON and SVG. An editor reviews source changes before replacing this edition. A new retrieval date never turns old observations into new data.

Source register, timestamps and SHA-256 hashes · Full derived data · Pipeline source · Reproduce this edition (ZIP) · Download methodology

Raw snapshots: F7065 · F7068 · F7122. Read the CSO background notes. Corrections: contact NNF with the area, group and source cell.