Cork in Numbers
13 stats to chew on
€28,523: Salary for a preschool teacher in Cork via Indeed.ie and taken from a small sample. This works out at €12.77 per hour.
Ireland’s living wage for 2020/21 was calculated at €12.30 per hour. The minimum wage increased from €10.10 per hour to €10.20 per hour on January 1, 2021.
€1,452: Average rent price in Cork City (4.8% increase from 2019)
€1,106: Average rent price in Cork county (8.9% increase from 2019)
Figures correct as of December, 2020.
€226 million: Cork City Council budget for 2021
210,853: Population of Cork City, 2016 census.
50%: minimum target set by Cork City Council for the population to grow by 125,000 to over 335,000 people between 2020 and 2040
276: Number of affordable houses Cork City Council are building/planning to build as of March 2021
34: Number or storeys for the planned sky scraper at Custom House Quay.
23: Number of conditions attached to the planning permission.
$22bn: The amount Cathy Kearney, Apple’s vice president of European Operations, saved the company in one year according to The Guardian.
6000: Number of employees working for Apple in Cork.
1135: Number of new electric private cars licensed in Cork from January to June 2020.
1: The number of Volunteers killed in the GPO, on Oliver Plunkett Street. His name was Patrick Tarrant, 19, from Ballintemple. He was shot on December 21, 1920 when he drew a revolver, jumped on the counter of the post office and fired three shots. From “The Dead of the Irish Revolution” by Daithí O Corráin and Eunan O'Halpin.
