Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs and earnings in Blaenannerch, and the trip to work
Each working day, 51 people come into the village for work. There is no Jobs & income Grade for Blaenannerch. The claimant rate is 2.9% of working-age residents, against 2.7% in the typical UK town.
Work in Blaenannerch, in a few figures
More jobs than the typical town
44 jobs are based in Blaenannerch for 44 working residents; the typical UK town has 0.7 jobs per resident in work. Shops, hotels and holiday accommodation and education make up 31% of them. Jobs based here ↓
Benefit claims close to the typical town
The typical UK town: 2.7%; England and Wales: 4% so far in 2026. Claims across the Ceredigion 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.
44 jobs, one in six in hotels, pubs and restaurants
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 (74). 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. Wales’ towns: all jobs in its built-up areas.
Jobs at workplaces in Blaenannerch (employees and working owners, ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2024).
Most of Blaenannerch’s incomers live in Aberporth and the places around
- Countryside7
- Cardigan6
- St Clears1
- Crundale1
- Crymych1
- Newcastle Emlyn1
- St Dogmaels1
- Penparc1
- Parcllyn1
- Hounslow1
Aberporth, 2 miles away, sends 5 people, more than any other town; in all, 69% of the people who work in Blaenannerch live outside it. Going the other way, Cardigan is the biggest single destination (6).
The ten places that send the most workers into Blaenannerch, 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 Blaenannerch has £37,886 a year
Higher than 3% of UK towns of 2,500+; the typical town is £52,385. The whole council area of Ceredigion averages £43,546.
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).
Jobless claims in the Ceredigion council area have run below England and Wales every month since 2015
Ceredigion’s rate was about 1.6% in 2019, peaked at 4.7% in May 2020 and has averaged 2.7% 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 Ceredigion, which Nomis publishes monthly; the figures above the line are for Blaenannerch’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 (Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025). The “most deprived tenth” compares areas within Wales 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).
How the places next to Blaenannerch compare on work
| Town | People | Jobs | Work in own town | Claimants | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaenannerch | 125 | 44 | 9% | 2.9% | — |
| Aberporth | 1,075 | 187 | 11% | 3.4% | D− |
| Cardigan | 3,767 | 2,028 | 40% | 4.8% | D− |
| St Dogmaels | 1,013 | 174 | 8% | 3.4% | D |
| Newcastle Emlyn | 1,842 | 1,056 | 31% | 2.9% | D− |
| New Quay | 1,046 | 381 | 25% | 2.6% | D |
| Llandysul | 1,321 | 378 | 9% | 3.4% | D− |
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. Blaenannerch 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 Ceredigion as a whole; the claimant rate elsewhere on this page is Blaenannerch’s built-up area, from small areas.
Questions about work in Blaenannerch
Where do people in Blaenannerch work?
At the 2021 Census, 9% of Blaenannerch’s residents who travelled to work worked in the village itself; the most common other places were Cardigan (6), St Clears (1) and Crundale (1). 48% 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 Blaenannerch?
51 people who lived elsewhere worked in Blaenannerch at the 2021 Census, 69% of its 74 workers. The most came from Aberporth (5), Newcastle Emlyn (3) and Cardigan (3). 21 residents travelled out the other way.
How many jobs are there in Blaenannerch?
About 40 jobs (employees and working owners) were based in Blaenannerch in 2024, on ONS’s Business Register and Employment Survey: 1 for every resident in work, against 0.7 in the typical UK town.
What is the average household income in Blaenannerch?
Mean household income before tax was £37,886 in the year to March 2023 (ONS), against £52,385 in the typical UK town.
How does Blaenannerch compare with Llanelli for jobs?
Blaenannerch has 1 jobs per working resident against Llanelli’s 1, a 2.9% claimant rate against 3.8%, and mean household income of £37,886 against £41,218.
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) · Welsh Government, Welsh Index of Multiple 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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