ALMOST three million people commute in Ireland every day, while Britain is the most popular destination for those who live but work outside the island.
A total of 3,531 people's place of work is now located outside the island of Ireland, according to new Central Statistic Office (CSO) figures.
The most popular overseas working destination was Britain, with 2,144 commuting to England, Scotland and Wales.
A further 1,387 commute elsewhere in the world.
The figures also show that 9,336 people cross the border to Northern Ireland for work or school - 7,037 workers and 2,299 students every day.
How long does it take to get to work in Ireland?
It now takes longer to get to work and school than ever before with commuting times having risen in every county.
The average commuting time in Ireland is 28.2 minutes - up from 26.6 minutes since 2011.
People living in counties bordering Dublin - where the number of people working in Dublin city and suburbs surpassed the half a million mark last year - had the longest average commuting time.
Those in Meath and Wicklow travel for almost 35 minutes.
Almost 1 in 10 poeple spend an hour or more commuting to work, an increase of a third on 2011.
Last year there were 81,897 parents with children under 15 who spent an hour or more commuting to work.
Of these 43,372 were parents of pre-school children.
In Wicklow, Meath, Laois, Kildare and Westmeath one-in-five parents of 0-4 year olds had a commute of over an hour.
Early birds in Ireland...
People in Ireland are also up earlier than ever - with a 34 per cent increase in the number of poeple leaving for work before 7am.
More poeple are now also working from home (94,955) - up 14 per cent in the last five years.
The workforce in Cork city and suburbs has increased by 10.8 per cent to 102,139 over the last half decade.
In Limerick city and suburbs the workforce increased 44,624, Galway city and suburbs went to 44,376 while Waterford city and suburbs increased by 4.5 per cent to 24,375 workers.
In rural areas seven-in-10 people use a car to get to work.
More poeple than ever now cycle to work - an increase of 43 per cent since 2011. Three quarters are men, with two thirds of all cyclists located in Dublin city and suburbs.
In contrast, just 2,330 people cycled to work in Cork city and suburbs, 1,874 in Galway, 968 in Limerick and 395 in Waterford.
A total of 59.8 per cent of primary school children go to school by car, compared to 43.3 per cent of secondary students.
