Working mainly from home compared with council own-source income share
Working mainly from home, 2022 (CSO Census of Population) vs. council own-source income share, 2023 (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage — Local Authority Budgets). 31 areas, Pearson r = +0.45.
This is a pattern across areas, not a cause. It says nothing about any individual case.
Council own-source income share is each council's commercial rates plus Local Property Tax, as a share of its budgeted total income for 2023.
The two figures are not from the same period: 2022 and 2023, about 1 year apart. Read the comparison as a pattern across areas, not as a measure of one thing causing the other.
- One year apart: The Census figure is from April 2022; the council income figure is for 2023, the closest year Local Authority Budgets has published. Reading any difference here as change over time would be wrong -- these are two different years, not a before-and-after.
- A journey-to-work snapshot, not a full remote-work count: The Census asks how someone travelled to work (or study) on one specific day. Someone who works from home most days but travelled in that day is not counted here, and the reverse.
- Mostly follows local deprivation: Once each local authority's level of deprivation (Pobal HP Deprivation Index) is taken into account, this correlation moves from +0.45 to +0.21. Much of the pattern may reflect the difference between more and less deprived areas rather than anything particular to these two figures.
| Area | Working mainly from home | Council own-source income share |
|---|---|---|
| Carlow County Council | 11.1 | 32.82% |
| Cavan County Council | 8.2 | 34.20% |
| Clare County Council | 10.6 | 34.49% |
| Cork City Council | 12.1 | 44.01% |
| Cork County Council | 12.2 | 35.99% |
| Donegal County Council | 11.2 | 37.15% |
| Dublin City Council | 11.7 | 33.95% |
| Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council | 18.5 | 46.75% |
| Fingal County Council | 12.4 | 49.47% |
| Galway City Council | 11.0 | 38.18% |
| Galway County Council | 11.2 | 29.91% |
| Kerry County Council | 10.5 | 32.99% |
| Kildare County Council | 11.8 | 41.33% |
| Kilkenny County Council | 10.9 | 33.54% |
| Laois County Council | 8.7 | 24.77% |
| Leitrim County Council | 10.2 | 32.81% |
| Limerick City And County Council | 10.2 | 9.17% |
| Longford County Council | 7.6 | 28.76% |
| Louth County Council | 9.6 | 28.22% |
| Mayo County Council | 9.1 | 33.09% |
| Meath County Council | 11.0 | 35.44% |
| Monaghan County Council | 7.4 | 33.18% |
| Offaly County Council | 8.3 | 33.01% |
| Roscommon County Council | 9.4 | 32.59% |
| Sligo County Council | 12.4 | 34.89% |
| South Dublin County Council | 10.4 | 48.87% |
| Tipperary County Council | 9.6 | 31.19% |
| Waterford City And County Council | 10.7 | 33.86% |
| Westmeath County Council | 9.3 | 28.85% |
| Wexford County Council | 10.1 | 37.55% |
| Wicklow County Council | 14.0 | 31.68% |
Sources and licences
- Working mainly from home: CSO Census of Population, CC BY 4.0.
- Council own-source income share: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage — Local Authority Budgets, CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage — Local Authority Budgets, “Local Authority and Regional Assembly Annual Budgets”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. The figures shown here were calculated by StatsMapped from the published data, so they are an adaptation and are shared under the same licence.
- Deprivation adjustment: Pobal HP Deprivation Index (Haase and Pratschke), CC BY 4.0.
Sources and licensing for every dataset
Cite this comparison:
StatsMapped, Working mainly from home compared with council own-source income share. Working mainly from home (2022, CSO Census of Population) compared with Council own-source income share (2023, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage — Local Authority Budgets), 31 areas, Pearson r = +0.45. Calculated by StatsMapped from the published data. https://statsmapped.com/ireland/compare/remote-work-vs-council-income