Photo: Llywelyn2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0Cenarth has 0.4 jobs for every resident in work, so most commute out
Jobless benefit claims cover 2.6% of working-age residents; the typical UK town’s rate is 2.7%. Cenarth has no Jobs & income Grade.
The short version on work in Cenarth
Fewer jobs than working residents
46 jobs are based in Cenarth for 107 working residents; the typical UK town has 0.7 jobs per resident in work. Shops, pharmaceuticals and education make up 26% 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.
In and out of Cenarth: the working day evens out
107 residents were in work at the 2021 Census; 110 people worked in Cenarth.
6% 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.
Where Cenarth’s commuters go
- Countryside20
- Waungilwen4
- Newcastle Emlyn4
- Cardigan4
- Cardiff2
- Llanelli2
- Narberth2
- Carmarthen2
- St Dogmaels2
- Fishguard1
in all, 43% of the people who work in Cenarth live outside it. Going the other way, Cardigan is the biggest single destination (9).
The ten places that send the most workers into Cenarth, and the ten where its residents most often work (Census 2021, by home and workplace). Line width is the number of people.
46 jobs, one in six in health and social care
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 (110). 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 Cenarth (employees and working owners, ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2024).
Before tax, households in Cenarth average £40,544
Higher than 8% 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).
10% of Cenarth’s trips to work are on foot, by bike or public transport
Median journey 8.3 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 Ceredigion council area have run below England and Wales every month since 2015
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 Cenarth’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).
A retired town: 34% of adults in Cenarth
ONS Census 2021, tables TS066 (economic activity) and TS063 (occupation), output areas summed to the built-up area. Wales’ towns: everyone living in its built-up areas.
Everyone 16 and over, by what they were doing the week before the 2021 Census, and the jobs of those in work.
Around Cenarth: jobs, pay and the commute
| Town | People | Jobs | Work in own town | Claimants | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cenarth | 316 | 46 | 6% | 2.6% | — |
| Newcastle Emlyn | 1,842 | 1,056 | 31% | 2.9% | D− |
| Cardigan | 3,767 | 2,028 | 40% | 4.8% | D− |
| Aberporth | 1,075 | 187 | 11% | 3.4% | D− |
| St Dogmaels | 1,013 | 174 | 8% | 3.4% | D |
| Llandysul | 1,321 | 378 | 9% | 3.4% | D− |
| Pencader | 1,061 | 291 | 9% | 3% | 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. Cenarth 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 Cenarth’s built-up area, from small areas.
Questions about work in Cenarth
Where do people in Cenarth work?
At the 2021 Census, 6% of Cenarth’s residents who travelled to work worked in the village itself; the most common other places were Cardigan (9), Newcastle Emlyn (6) and Carmarthen (3). 56% 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 Cenarth?
47 people who lived elsewhere worked in Cenarth at the 2021 Census, 43% of its 110 workers. The most came from Waungilwen (4), Newcastle Emlyn (4) and Cardigan (4). 44 residents travelled out the other way.
How many jobs are there in Cenarth?
About 50 jobs (employees and working owners) were based in Cenarth in 2024, on ONS’s Business Register and Employment Survey: 0.4 for every resident in work, against 0.7 in the typical UK town.
How do people in Cenarth get to work?
90% of commuters go by car or van, 4% walk, 1% cycle and 4% take the bus or train. Census 2021, taken during lockdown.
What is the average household income in Cenarth?
Mean household income before tax was £40,544 in the year to March 2023 (ONS), against £52,385 in the typical UK town.
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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