The Census has revealed that workers and students in Clare are among the most likely to commute by car, and least likely to use public transport.
Travel times are getting longer, meanwhile, as Clare FM’s Gavin Grace reports:
The good news in this latest batch of Census results is that the number of people here working is up by 8.6% since the last Census in 2011.
But with more workers, there are more cars on the roads, and travel times are longer than five years ago.
34,500 people in Clare use their cars to get to work each day.
That’s more than three quarters of all workers
It takes them an average of nearly 25 minutes to get to work, but for some journeys are much longer.
One Clare worker in fifteen is driving for at least an hour each way, and one in fifty are travelling for an hour and a half or more.
5,600 people who work here travel to Clare from other counties, though 9.900 leave the county to go to work each day.
Shannon, of course, is the most likely destination with 7,100 people from outside the town commuting there for work.
Around 17% of students walk to school, though less than 1% cycle – that’s less than the national average.
