EU 7.05
· European ranking
9 / 30
Up 7 positions compared with previous year
Ireland: Jobless Households
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
8.80% of people aged 0 to 64
EU 7.05 · +1.8 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures people aged 0 to 64 living in households where working-age members worked 20% or less of their combined potential working time during the previous year. Eurostat excludes specified groups such as certain students and retired people from the work-intensity calculation.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years) ilc_lvhl21n
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Regional map
· 2025 · 3 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+34.09
11.80
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2+5.68
9.30
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3-14.77
7.50
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Ireland performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years), with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Ireland
In Ireland, Low work intensity is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 8.8% versus 7.1% in 2025, with a gap of 1.8 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Ireland, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 11.10% in 2020 to 8.80% in 2025. The latest step, from 7.40% in 2024 to 8.80% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent deterioration.
Regional differences in Ireland
In Ireland, regional values for Low work intensity are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Northern and Western Ireland records the highest value (11.8%) and Eastern and Midland Ireland the lowest (7.5%), a gap of 4.3 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Ireland, Employment & Economic Security shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.