Census 2016: Are we too reliant on manufacturing?

The Irish Independent notes today that in 2016, Millstreet had the second highest reliance on the manufacturing industry as an employer in the country:

“… some towns are heavily reliant on just one industry. For example, in seven towns, more than 25pc of the workforce were employed in manufacturing in April 2016 – they include Ballyhaunis, in Co Mayo, where 41.88pc of workers are in the sector, followed by Millstreet, in Co Cork, at 33.92pc…” [1]

From a community perspective, you’d prefer a broader spread of the workforce across industries, because in our case we may be too exposed to a shock to the manufacturing sector. At the same time we’re glad to have Alps, Munster Joinery, and the other smaller manufacturers in the area for the jobs they bring.

Detailed employment tables for Millstreet are below, though just the town and not include the surrounding hinterland.

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Millstreet – Population Aged 15 Years and Over 2016 (Number) by Towns by Size, Sex, Principal Economic Status and Census Year [1]
Both sexes	Both Sexes	Male	Female
All persons aged 15 years and over	1271	663	608
Employer or own account worker	77	58	19
Employee	610	352	258
Assisting relative	0	0	0
Unemployed looking for first regular job	6	3	3
Unemployed having lost or given up previous job	80	45	35
Student or pupil	100	54	46
Looking after home/family	96	4	92
Retired	233	105	128
Unable to work due to permanent sickness or disability	63	38	25
Other economic status	6	4	2

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Population Aged 15 Years and Over in the Labour Force 2016 by Towns by Size, Sex, Intermediate Occupational Group and Census Year [1]

Millstreet (2016)	Both sexes	Male	Female
Total in labour force	773	458	315
Corporate managers and directors	34	28	6
Other managers and proprietors	15	7	8
Science, research, engineering and technology professionals	20	15	5
Health professionals	20	6	14
Teaching and educational professionals	22	3	19
Business, media and public service professionals	19	9	10
Science, engineering and technology associate professionals	16	11	5
Health and social care associate professionals	6	1	5
Protective service occupations	6	4	2
Culture, media and sports occupations	2	0	2
Business and public service associate professionals	27	17	10
Administrative occupations	45	13	32
Secretarial and related occupations	8	0	8
Skilled agricultural and related trades	10	10	0
Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades	76	69	7
Skilled construction and building trades	71	68	3
Textiles, printing and other skilled trades	22	16	6
Caring personal service occupations	31	2	29
Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations	14	2	12
Sales occupations	32	12	20
Customer service occupations	3	0	3
Process, plant and machine operatives	82	41	41
Transport and mobile machine drivers and operatives	36	35	1
Elementary trades and related occupations	24	16	8
Elementary administration and service occupations	45	22	23
Other/not stated	81	48	33
Unemployed – looking for first regular job	6	3	3

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Millstreet Population Aged 15 Years and Over 2016 by Towns by Size, Sex, Socio-Economic Group [1]

	Both sexes	Male	Female
All socio-economic groups	1271	663	608
A. Employers and managers	125	72	53
B. Higher professional	51	34	17
C. Lower professional	133	43	90
D. Non-manual	191	52	139
E. Manual skilled	255	196	59
F. Semi-skilled	136	67	69
G. Unskilled	58	29	29
H. Own account workers	57	38	19
I. Farmers	23	17	6
J. Agricultural workers	10	7	3
Z. All others gainfully occupied and unknown	232	108	124

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Millstreet Population Aged 15 Years and Over in the Labour Force 2016 by Towns by Size, Sex, Broad Industrial Group [1]

	Both Sexes	Male	Female
Total in labour force	773	458	315
Agriculture, forestry and fishing (A)	13	11	2
Mining and quarrying (B)	0	0	0
Manufacturing (C)	230	154	76
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (D)	1	1	0
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (E)	4	4	0
Construction (F)	45	43	2
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (G)	90	53	37
Transportation and storage (H)	33	30	3
Accommodation and food service activities (I)	27	15	12
Information and communication (J)	9	4	5
Financial and insurance activities (K)	12	4	8
Real estate activities (L)	3	1	2
Professional, scientific and technical activities (M)	18	12	6
Administrative and support service activities (N)	13	5	8
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security (O)	20	12	8
Education (P)	38	5	33
Human health and social work activities (Q)	51	12	39
Arts, entertainment and recreation (R)	6	1	5
Other service activities (S)	15	2	13
Activities of households as employers producing activities of households for own use (T)	0	0	0
Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies (U)	0	0	0
Industry not stated	59	41	18
Unemployed looking for first regular job	6	3	3
Unemployed, having lost or given up previous job	80	45	35

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Unemployment Rates in the local area

	Unemployment Rates
Millstreet	6.77%
Kanturk	8.25%
Macroom	7.65%
Killarney	6.19%
Towns 1,000 – 1,499 population	10.22%
Total Towns 500 – 999 population	9.53%
Towns under 500 population but with at least 50 inhabited houses	9.42%
Remainder of country	5.93%

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Population of Millstreet by sex and age group [1]
Millstreet (2016)	Both Sexes	Male	Female
All ages	1555	794	761
0 – 4 years	95	37	58
5 – 12 years	164	83	81
13 – 18 years	83	41	42
19 – 24 years	81	44	37
25 – 34 years	227	112	115
35 – 44 years	277	163	114
45 – 54 years	198	109	89
55 – 64 years	165	87	78
65 – 74 years	156	73	83
75 years and over	109	45	64