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Enterprise Profile
Enterprise or “Business Demography” data is only published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) for Cork County (including the city), but this data is likely to be dominated by enterprise activity within or proximate to the city boundaries and so is interesting and worth noting.
The key points to note from the table below are as follows:
➢ There were as of 2021 a total of 39,573 enterprises in the County of Cork as a whole including the city.
➢ The number of these is dominated entirely by enterprises employing less than 10 persons, making the “micro- business” community extremely important.
➢ However, a relatively small number of enterprises, some 70 in all, accounted for a total of 84,138 in employment.
➢ Thus, the numbers employed in 70 large companies exceeds the 61,147 employed in all of the 36,602 microbusinesses and all those employed by enterprises employing between 10 and 19 persons combined. Many of these are likely to be located in Ringaskiddy just outside the city boundary but with strong linkages in terms of supply chains and in terms of staff commuting from within the city boundary.
➢ In between are two further categories of medium sized (20-49 employees) and large (50-249) firms employing, respectively, 41,709 and 84,138 persons.
➢ The extent of linkages between the larger multinational companies on one side and on the other, large, medium, and small and micro businesses is a vital issue: Improving these linkages can help diffuse the benefits of the high profitable multinational sector throughout the indigenous sector both through direct supply chain participation and the more indirect diffusion of demand from high income employment.
The potential for placemaking and housing development in new areas of the city to attract employees from this sector
should be noted in this regard.
Under 10
10-19
20-49
50-249
250 & over
All persons
Active enterprises
36,602
1,591
881
429
70
39,573
Persons engaged
61,147
21,163
26,024
41,709
84,138
234,181
Figure 1 Enterprises by size and persons engaged in Cork City and County Source: CSO (Business Demography survey (2023). *Data presented is for the year 2021
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