Galway Bay fm newsroom - The number of people who stayed local in Galway has remained largely unchanged over the past month.
According to the CSO’s Staying Local Indicator, 58.3% of people in the city and county stayed with 10km of their homes in the week ending March 19th
That's just half a percent less than the figure recorded during the same week in February.
Galway is one 22 counties which recorded a marginal decrease in the number of people staying local - indicating that more people moved beyond 10km of home.
At 58.3%, last week’s figure is down by 1.6% on the second week in March.
Nationwide, the CSO estimates that 65.1% of the population stayed within 10km of home.
Dublin continues to be the county with the highest percentage of people staying local, at 80%.
Meanwhile, Roscommon and Mayo are the counties with the lowest SLI percentages at close to 50% - meaning one in two people in those counties went more than 10 kilometres from their homes.
