| Census of Industrial Production - Industrial Local Units 20161 | |||||||
| Border | Dublin | Mid-East | Midland | West | State2 | ||
| Nationality of Ownership | |||||||
| Gross Output (€m) | Irish | 2,646 | 9,343 | 3,275 | 1,778 | 1,876 | 31,988 |
| Foreign | 5,437 | 22,917 | 12,619 | 829 | 9,045 | 150,262 | |
| Total | 8,083 | 32,260 | 15,894 | 2,607 | 10,921 | 182,250 | |
| Persons engaged3 | Irish | 13,622 | 29,283 | 19,484 | 8,698 | 13,572 | 133,574 |
| Foreign | 10,060 | 20,249 | 13,039 | 3,301 | 9,624 | 101,778 | |
| Total | 23,682 | 49,532 | 32,523 | 11,999 | 23,196 | 235,352 | |
| Size Class of Unit4 | |||||||
| Gross Output (€m) | Small & medium | 3,563 | 9,545 | 5,218 | 1,853 | 4,753 | 44,844 |
| Large | 4,519 | 22,715 | 10,676 | 754 | 6,167 | 137,405 | |
| Persons engaged | Small & medium | 14,939 | 25,376 | 19,143 | 8,471 | 13,699 | 128,475 |
| Large | 8,743 | 24,156 | 13,380 | 3,528 | 9,497 | 106,877 | |
| Wages and salaries (€m) | 900 | 2,587 | 1,517 | 473 | 950 | 10,807 | |
| 1 Mid-West, South-East and South-West regions are confidential. | |||||||
| 2 State totals include units not attributable to size class or region. | |||||||
| 3 Number of persons engaged refers to actual number of persons and not full time equivalents. | |||||||
| 4 Small and medium local units employ 249 persons or less while large units employ 250 or more. | |||||||
The Dublin region accounted for 17.7% or €32.3 billion of Irish industrial output in Ireland in 2016, with Foreign owned enterprises in this region accounting for 71% of industrial output, and Irish owned enterprises accounting for 29%. The Mid-East and West regions reported €15.9 billion and €10.9 billion respectively worth of industrial gross output in 2016.
In 2016, the Mid-West, South-East and South-West regions combined produced €112.4 billion or 61.7% of Ireland’s total industrial output.
In Ireland 17.6% of total gross output of industrial units was produced by Irish owned units.
The Midland region was the only region who had a higher proportion of gross output attributable to Irish owned industrial units in 2016 at 68.2%. The Border region had 32.7% of total industrial gross output from Irish owned units.
The West region had 17.2% of total gross industrial output from Irish owned units, while the Mid-East region had a rate of 20.6%. See Headline table and Figure 1.
