Ireland’s 507,000 COVID-19 Unemployment payments split county by county
As we know, the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment is an emergency payment for employees and the self-employed who have lost their income and are fully unemployed due to the pandemic. To date 507,000 payments have been processed. Here we breakdown the payments on a county by county basis.
” Taking account of the claims that have now been closed the department has issued payments to 90% of people who made claims. However, approximately 46,000 payments were withheld for various reasons “ – GOV.IE
Each week COVID unemployment payments are normally generated on a Friday for processing to people’s bank accounts by the following Tuesday.
Below we have a breakdown of the latest Covid Payments split by county. Between 10 -12% of each counties population is in receipt of the COVID-19 emergency unemployment payment as of April 7th.
Kerry is the most badly affected county in Ireland with 18,500 or 12.5 % of the Kerry population in receipt of the latest unemployment payment. Laois has been the least effected to date with 7,400 people in receipt of payment or 8.74% of the Laois population.
There is an anomaly in the data in that 2,100 payments were not recorded against a particular county. The gender split is 284,000 men and 223,000 women.
| County | No. of Payments | Population | % of population | Density/ KM |
| Clare | 12,100 | 118,817 | 10.18% | 34.4 |
| Cork | 52,500 | 542,868 | 9.67% | 72.3 |
| Cavan | 8,100 | 76,176 | 10.63% | 39.3 |
| Carlow | 6,900 | 56,932 | 12.12% | 63.4 |
| Donegal | 18,500 | 159,192 | 11.62% | 32.6 |
| Dublin | 147,100 | 1,347,359 | 10.92% | 1,459.20 |
| Galway | 27,300 | 258,058 | 10.58% | 42 |
| Kerry | 18,500 | 147,707 | 12.52% | 30.7 |
| Kildare | 22,300 | 222,504 | 10.02% | 131 |
| Kilkenny | 9,200 | 99,232 | 9.27% | 47.8 |
| Laois | 7,400 | 84,697 | 8.74% | 49.3 |
| Leitrim | 3,500 | 32,044 | 10.92% | 20.1 |
| Limerick | 18,800 | 194,899 | 9.65% | 70.8 |
| Longford | 3,800 | 40,873 | 9.30% | 37.4 |
| Louth | 14,600 | 128,884 | 11.33% | 155.4 |
| Mayo | 14,100 | 130,507 | 10.80% | 23.3 |
| Meath | 21,400 | 195,044 | 10.97% | 83.2 |
| Monaghan | 6,800 | 61,386 | 11.08% | 47.3 |
| Offaly | 7,500 | 77,961 | 9.62% | 38.9 |
| Roscommon | 5,900 | 64,544 | 9.14% | 25.3 |
| Sligo | 6,800 | 65,535 | 10.38% | 35.5 |
| Tipperary | 16,000 | 159,553 | 10.03% | 37.2 |
| Waterford | 12,300 | 116,176 | 10.59% | 62.7 |
| Westmeath | 10,200 | 88,770 | 11.49% | 48.2 |
| Wexford | 17,600 | 149,722 | 11.76% | 63.2 |
| Wicklow | 15,700 | 142,425 | 11.02% | 70.2 |
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Latest County by County Breakdown of Ireland’s coronavirus cases as published on April 9th on gov.ie
| County | Cases | % of cases |
| Carlow | 15 | 0.30% |
| Cavan | 129 | 2.20% |
| Clare | 66 | 1.10% |
| Cork | 431 | 7.20% |
| Donegal | 120 | 2% |
| Dublin | 3268 | 54.60% |
| Galway | 134 | 2.20% |
| Kerry | 122 | 2% |
| Kildare | 233 | 3.90% |
| Kilkenny | 88 | 1.50% |
| Laois | 34 | 0.60% |
| Leitrim | 20 | 0.30% |
| Limerick | 160 | 2.70% |
| Longford | 35 | 0.60% |
| Louth | 96 | 1.50% |
| Mayo | 130 | 2.20% |
| Meath | 183 | 3.10% |
| Monaghan | 62 | 1% |
| Offaly | 77 | 1.30% |
| Roscommon | 22 | 0.40% |
| Sligo | 28 | 0.50% |
| Tipperary | 137 | 2.30% |
| Waterford | 52 | 0.90% |
| Westmeath | 134 | 2.20% |
| Wexford | 24 | 0.40% |
| Wicklow | 181 | 3% |
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