Roscommon in Census 2011 - Roscommon County Council

10.1 Door to door - nationwide
Commuting in Ireland 1981-2011
Commuter numbers for both workers and students totalled 2.7 million in 2011, an increase of 1
per cent on the corresponding 2006 figure of 2.67 million, and a 13.1 per cent rise when
compared against the 2.39 million who travelled to work, school or college in 2002.
In 2011, almost 1.7 million workers indicated that they travelled to their work, a decrease from
1.79 million in 2006, reflecting the fall in the number of persons in employment over the five
year period. This follows a period of uninterrupted growth between 1986 and 2006 in the
number of persons commuting to work.
The numbers of primary and secondary students travelling to their school have experienced
periods of growth and decline over the 30 year period. There were 496,601 primary students
and 321,491 secondary students journeying to school in 2011, an increase of 12.8 per cent and
6.8 per cent respectively when compared to 2006. The peak number of commuters for these
cohorts occurred in 1986 in the case of primary students (556,338) and 1996 for secondary
students (363,919).
A continuous rise has been recorded in the amount of third-level students travelling to college,
growing from 31,136 in 1981 to 191,238 in 2011. The most recent inter-censal period of 2006-
2011 saw a 30.9 per cent increase in the number of college commuters.
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