County Clare, County Limerick and North Tipperary as part of the Mid-West region with a population of 360,000 has a GVA of €10.7bn(2005).
The main urban centres in the region are the Limerick urban area with almost 100,000, then Ennis (25,000), Shannon (9,000), Nenagh (9,000), Thurles (8,000), Newcastle-West (7,000).