Hearth and Home: Who is doing the the lions share of the family care in Tipperary?
From Census 2022: Profile seven - Employment, Occupations and Commuting
New results from Census 2022 show that almost 9,400 people in Tipperary work in their home.
The Profile seven - Employment, Occupations and Commuting set for Tipperary recorded a 18% drop in people who reported looking after the home and family.
The measure is called Looking After Home/Family.
Sixteen-point-five percent of women in Fethard reported caring for home/family as their occupation compared to 2.4% of men.
The lowest for county was in Ballina, with women reported as 9.1% and men just 1.1%
In the north of the county for men was Thurles at 2% and for women Roscrea at 13.7%.
Fethard was the highest for both men and women south of the county.
But the lowest home care figures were in Clonmel, with men accounting for 1.2% and women 10.9%.