Photo: Mike Faherty · CC BY-SA 2.0Earning a living in Post Green
The working day brings 102 people in, filling the village. Of the residents who travel to work, 25% go under 3 miles. Post Green isn’t graded for jobs and income.
The work numbers behind Post Green
More jobs than the typical town
106 jobs are based in Post Green for 103 working residents; the typical UK town has 0.7 jobs per resident in work. Restaurants, cafés and pubs, education and shops make up 35% of them. Jobs based here ↓
Longer journeys to work
Against 45% across England’s towns. 7% of commuters walk to work (11% across England’s towns). Getting to work ↓
Fewer benefit claims than most towns
The typical UK town: 2.7%; England and Wales: 4% so far in 2026. Claims across the Dorset council area have run below the national rate every month since 2015. Benefits over time ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 and BRES, DWP claimant counts via Nomis, and ONS household income.
106 jobs, 19% in arts, leisure and other services
1 for every working resident; the typical UK town has 0.7.
BRES counts jobs, not people (a part-time job and a second job count once each), so it runs above the Census count of people working here (158). Small areas are shared out to the town by where their Census 2021 workers were based; kinds of work are BRES industry divisions (SIC 2007), rounded. England’s towns: all jobs in its built-up areas.
Jobs at workplaces in Post Green (employees and working owners, ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2024).
Out of the car: 10% of Post Green’s commuters
Median journey 11.4 km; typical UK town 8.4 km.
ONS Census 2021, TS061 (method of travel) and TS058 (distance, straight line from home to workplace), output areas summed. Census day fell in the third lockdown, so fewer people travelled than usual.
How residents who travel to work get there, and how far they go (Census 2021, not counting those working mainly at home).
Jobless claims in the Dorset council area have run below England and Wales every month since 2015
Dorset’s rate was about 1.6% in 2019, peaked at 4.7% in May 2020 and has averaged 2.3% in 2026, against 4% across England and Wales. Claims everywhere stay higher than before the pandemic, partly because Universal Credit counts more people on low pay as looking for work.
The chart is the whole council area of Dorset, which Nomis publishes monthly; the figures above the line are for Post Green’s built-up area. Claimant count: people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, or Universal Credit while required to look for work. Employment deprivation counts people out of work on Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, Severe Disablement Allowance, Carer’s Allowance or the Universal Credit equivalents (English Indices of Deprivation 2025). The “most deprived tenth” compares areas within England only.
Claimant rate since 2015: people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance or Universal Credit while looking for work, as a share of residents aged 16 to 64 (DWP, via Nomis).
On a working day Post Green gains 53% in workers
103 residents were in work at the 2021 Census; 158 people worked in Post Green.
For every resident who leaves Post Green for work, about 2 people come in. 4% of residents who travel to a workplace stay in the village; in the typical UK town of 2,500+ it’s 14%.
The middle of each bar is the same people: residents who work in the village or from home.
Post Green’s workers come from Poole to Christchurch
- Poole27
- Upton18
- Bournemouth14
- Countryside12
- Christchurch7
- Corfe Mullen5
- Wimborne Minster4
- Merley3
- Wareham2
- Bridport2
Poole, 4 miles away, sends 27 people, more than any other town; in all, 65% of the people who work in Post Green live outside it. Going the other way, Poole is the biggest single destination (10).
The ten places that send the most workers into Post Green, and the ten where its residents most often work (Census 2021, by home and workplace). Line width is the number of people.
The average household in Post Green has £51,474 a year
Higher than 46% of UK towns of 2,500+; the typical town is £52,385. The whole council area of Dorset averages £52,418.
The town figure is ONS’s neighbourhood (MSOA) estimates shared out by where the town’s residents live.
Total household income before tax, mean, year to March 2023 (ONS small-area estimates).
How the places next to Post Green compare on work
| Town | People | Jobs | Work in own town | Claimants | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Post Green | 209 | 106 | 4% | 1.4% | — |
| Upton | 8,401 | 1,968 | 6% | 2.5% | B− |
| Lytchett Matravers | 3,455 | 2,021 | 6% | 2.3% | B |
| Sandford | 2,004 | 554 | 6% | 3% | C |
| Corfe Mullen | 10,036 | 1,624 | 5% | 1.6% | A |
| Wareham | 5,876 | 2,735 | 22% | 2.2% | C+ |
| Poole | 141,009 | 80,891 | 58% | 3% | B− |
| Sturminster Marshall | 1,504 | 467 | 7% | 1.7% | B+ |
Jobs based in each place, commuters who stay in their own town, and the claimant rate.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in lockdown. Census day was 21 March 2021, during the third national lockdown: many people were furloughed or working from home, so fewer travelled to work, and journeys were shorter, than before the pandemic or since. The flows on this page show where people worked that spring.
- At home and no fixed place are one figure. In the workplace flows, ONS puts people who mainly worked at home and people with no fixed workplace (drivers, builders, care workers on rounds) at their home address, so the two can’t be told apart there.
- Towns are built-up areas. Post Green here is ONS’s built-up area: the town as built, not its council district. A workplace on an estate or farm outside every built-up area counts as “outside any built-up area”.
- Jobs are counted where they are. BRES counts jobs at each workplace (employees and working owners, rounded by ONS), so a town with a hospital, university or big employer can have more jobs than working residents. Small areas are shared out to towns by where their Census workers were based.
- The benefits chart is the council area. Nomis publishes the claimant count monthly for councils back to 2013, so the line is Dorset as a whole; the claimant rate elsewhere on this page is Post Green’s built-up area, from small areas.
Questions about work in Post Green
Where do people in Post Green work?
At the 2021 Census, 4% of Post Green’s residents who travelled to work worked in the village itself; the most common other places were Poole (10), Weymouth (4) and Lytchett Matravers (3). 52% of working residents worked mainly at home or had no fixed workplace; the Census was taken in lockdown, so home working was unusually high.
How many people commute into Post Green?
102 people who lived elsewhere worked in Post Green at the 2021 Census, 65% of its 158 workers. The most came from Poole (27), Upton (18) and Bournemouth (14). 44 residents travelled out the other way.
How many jobs are there in Post Green?
About 110 jobs (employees and working owners) were based in Post Green in 2024, on ONS’s Business Register and Employment Survey: 1 for every resident in work, against 0.7 in the typical UK town.
How do people in Post Green get to work?
86% of commuters go by car or van, 7% walk, 3% cycle and 0% take the bus or train; 25% travel under 5 km. Census 2021, taken during lockdown.
What is the average household income in Post Green?
Mean household income before tax was £51,474 in the year to March 2023 (ONS), against £52,385 in the typical UK town.
How does Post Green compare with Bournemouth for jobs?
Post Green has 1 jobs per working resident against Bournemouth’s 0.9, a 1.4% claimant rate against 4.1%, and mean household income of £51,474 against £49,915.
Sources: ONS Census 2021 origin-destination data, place of work (ODWP01EW), output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · ONS Census 2021 tables TS058 (distance), TS061 (method of travel), TS063 (occupation) and TS066 (economic activity) · ONS Business Register and Employment Survey via Nomis (open access), by industry division · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023); House of Commons Library MSOA names · DWP claimant count via Nomis (towns January to August 2026; councils, regions and England and Wales monthly since January 2015) · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · DfT Transport Connectivity Metric (employment) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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