Photo: Rollercow · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Saundersfoot are lower than in 89% of UK towns
Of the residents who travel to work, 36% go under 3 miles. Saundersfoot grades C− for jobs and income against UK towns, #6 of 23 in Dyfed.
Saundersfoot at work: what stands out
More jobs than the typical town
1,054 jobs are based in Saundersfoot for 938 working residents; the typical UK town has 0.7 jobs per resident in work. Restaurants, cafés and pubs, hotels and holiday accommodation and shops make up 46% of them. Jobs based here ↓
As many come in to work as leave
418 people come in to work and 433 residents go out, so Saundersfoot loses about 15 workers a day. Wooden sends the most (45). The daily tide ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 and BRES, DWP claimant counts via Nomis, and ONS household income.
Saundersfoot grades C− for jobs and income
Better than 17% of UK towns on four measures taken together: #6 of 23 in Dyfed.
Its strongest measure is the claimant rate; its weakest, household income.
How the grade works
Each input is ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more (higher income and job access are better; fewer claimants and less employment deprivation are better), the four ranks are averaged, and the average is ranked again. A town needs three of the four.
1,054 jobs, one in three in hotels, pubs and restaurants
1.1 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 (919). 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 Saundersfoot (employees and working owners, ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2024).
Saundersfoot keeps its workforce on a working day
938 residents were in work at the 2021 Census; 919 people worked in Saundersfoot.
15% of residents who travel to a workplace stay in the town; 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 town or from home.
Saundersfoot’s commuters work from Tenby to Carmarthen
- Countryside99
- Wooden45
- Tenby30
- Pembroke30
- Haverfordwest22
- Kilgetty21
- Pembroke Dock18
- St Florence13
- Milford Haven12
- Sageston9
- Countryside83
- Tenby71
- Haverfordwest54
- Pembroke Dock35
- Carmarthen31
- Narberth17
- New Hedges and Twy Cross13
- Milford Haven13
- Swansea10
- Pembroke7
85% of residents who travel to a workplace work outside Saundersfoot; Tenby takes the most (71). Coming the other way, Wooden sends the most (45).
The ten places that send the most workers into Saundersfoot, and the ten where its residents most often work (Census 2021, by home and workplace). Line width is the number of people.
Before tax, households in Saundersfoot average £42,127
Higher than 13% of UK towns of 2,500+; the typical town is £52,385. The whole council area of Pembrokeshire averages £41,978.
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).
One way or another, 13% of Saundersfoot’s commuters skip the car
Median journey 15.5 km; typical UK town 8.4 km.
Saundersfoot grades C+ for walkability: the share of commuters who walk, cycle or take public transport, against UK towns.
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 Pembrokeshire council area are below England and Wales’ rate
Pembrokeshire’s rate was about 2.8% in 2019, peaked at 6.5% in August 2020 and has averaged 3.5% 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 Pembrokeshire, which Nomis publishes monthly; the figures above the line are for Saundersfoot’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).
44% of adults in Saundersfoot are retired
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.
Saundersfoot is 460th of 542 UK towns of 2,000 to 3,000 for jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Jobs per worker | Work in own town | Claimants | Income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pannal North Yorkshire | 2,530 | 0.8 | 4% | 0.6% | £71K | A+ |
| 2 | Limpsfield Surrey | 2,247 | 0.9 | 8% | 1.1% | £84K | A+ |
| 3 | Woodford Greater Manchester | 2,241 | 0.6 | 1% | 1.6% | £72K | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 335 | Hendy and Fforest Dyfed | 2,996 | 0.3 | 3% | 1.6% | £49K | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 458 | Terrington St Clement Norfolk | 2,792 | 0.3 | 8% | 2.4% | £44K | C− |
| 459 | Hall Green West Yorkshire | 2,307 | 0.2 | 3% | 4.2% | £48K | C− |
| 460 | Saundersfoot Dyfed | 2,515 | 1.1 | 15% | 2.4% | £42K | C− |
| 461 | Bere Alston Devon | 2,259 | 0.4 | 13% | 2.7% | £53K | C− |
| 462 | Mancetter and Witherley Warwickshire | 2,689 | 0.5 | 4% | 4% | £48K | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 487 | Tycroes Dyfed | 2,480 | 0.3 | 6% | 3.2% | £48K | D |
| … | |||||||
| 495 | Merlin's Bridge Dyfed | 2,220 | 0.7 | 6% | 3.8% | £43K | D |
| … | |||||||
| 542 | Maerdy Mid Glamorgan | 2,843 | 0.4 | 11% | 5.7% | £38K | D− |
Jobs & income letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Saundersfoot, and others in Dyfed.
Work in and around Saundersfoot
| Town | People | Jobs | Work in own town | Claimants | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saundersfoot | 2,515 | 1,054 | 15% | 2.4% | C− |
| Wooden | 1,300 | 400 | 4% | 1.7% | C |
| Kilgetty | 1,247 | 270 | 8% | 3.4% | D− |
| Tenby | 4,092 | 2,400 | 41% | 3.5% | D− |
| Narberth | 2,365 | 1,000 | 17% | 3.5% | D |
| Whitland | 1,907 | 857 | 14% | 2% | C− |
| Pembroke | 7,963 | 1,525 | 14% | 4.6% | D− |
| Pembroke Dock | 9,659 | 4,340 | 34% | 5.2% | 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. Saundersfoot 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 Pembrokeshire as a whole; the claimant rate elsewhere on this page is Saundersfoot’s built-up area, from small areas.
Questions about work in Saundersfoot
Where do people in Saundersfoot work?
At the 2021 Census, 15% of Saundersfoot’s residents who travelled to work worked in the town itself; the most common other places were Tenby (71), Haverfordwest (54) and Pembroke Dock (35). 45% 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 Saundersfoot?
418 people who lived elsewhere worked in Saundersfoot at the 2021 Census, 45% of its 919 workers. The most came from Wooden (45), Tenby (30) and Pembroke (30). 433 residents travelled out the other way.
How many jobs are there in Saundersfoot?
About 1,050 jobs (employees and working owners) were based in Saundersfoot in 2024, on ONS’s Business Register and Employment Survey: 1.1 for every resident in work, against 0.7 in the typical UK town. The biggest kinds of work are restaurants, cafés and pubs (about 190), hotels and holiday accommodation (about 150) and shops (about 110).
Is Saundersfoot a good place to find work?
Saundersfoot earns a C− for jobs and income, better than 17% of UK towns on household income, the claimant rate, employment deprivation and access to jobs together. Mean household income £42,127; 2.4% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits.
How do people in Saundersfoot get to work?
85% of commuters go by car or van, 11% walk, 0% cycle and 1% take the bus or train; 36% travel under 5 km. Census 2021, taken during lockdown.
What is the average household income in Saundersfoot?
Mean household income before tax was £42,127 in the year to March 2023 (ONS), against £52,385 in the typical UK town.
How does Saundersfoot compare with Llanelli for jobs?
Saundersfoot has 1.1 jobs per working resident against Llanelli’s 1, a 2.4% claimant rate against 3.8%, and mean household income of £42,127 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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