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Work & commute in Easter Compton · ONS, DWP · claims to August 2026

There are 2.3 jobs in Easter Compton for every resident in work

324 people travel into the village for work each working day. 31% of residents who travel to work go less than 3 miles. Easter Compton has no Jobs & income Grade.

What stands out · In brief

Work in Easter Compton: the figures worth knowing

A local job centre

792 jobs are based in Easter Compton for 343 working residents; the typical UK town has 0.7 jobs per resident in work. Warehousing and logistics, shops and restaurants, cafés and pubs make up 55% of them. Jobs based here ↓

Longer journeys to work

Against 45% across England’s towns. 5% of commuters walk to work (11% across England’s towns). Getting to work ↓

More benefit claims than most towns

The typical UK town: 2.7%; England and Wales: 4% so far in 2026. Claims across the South Gloucestershire 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.

Jobs based here

792 jobs, one in three in transport and storage

The six biggest kinds of work
170Warehousing and logistics27% of jobs · England 2%12.4× England’s share
140Shops21% of jobs · England 8%2.6× England’s share
40Restaurants, cafés and pubs7% of jobs · England 6%
30Recruitment and staffing5% of jobs · England 3%1.7× England’s share
30Motor trade and repair5% of jobs · England 2%2.6× England’s share
30Road and rail transport4% of jobs · England 2%2.5× England’s share
Share of jobs by industry England’s towns
Transport and storage34%
Retail22%
Hotels, pubs and restaurants8%
Business administration and support8%
Manufacturing5%
Motor trades5%
Health and social care4%
Arts, leisure and other services3%
Wholesale2%
Professional, scientific and technical2%

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 (510). 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 Easter Compton (employees and working owners, ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2024).

Getting to work

Easter Compton commutes on foot, by bike or bus for 10% of trips

Median journey 7.6 km; typical UK town 8.4 km.

Drive84%Gloucestershire 73% · England 64%
Passenger5%Gloucestershire 5% · England 6%
Walk5%Gloucestershire 11% · England 11%
Cycle2%Gloucestershire 3% · England 3%
Bus2%Gloucestershire 4% · England 6%
Train0.5%Gloucestershire 0% · England 3%
Other0.9%Gloucestershire 2% · England 6%
Easter ComptonGloucestershire’s townsEngland’s towns
How far they travel England’s towns
10%
Under 2 km
21%
2–5 km
37%
5–10 km
17%
10–20 km
8%
20–30 km
3%
30–40 km
1%
40–60 km
3%
60 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).

Benefits over time

Jobless claims in the South Gloucestershire council area have run below England and Wales every month since 2015

0%2%4%6%201520172019202120232025First lockdownCensus dayEngland & Wales 4%South West 2.7%South Glouceste… 2.1%
South Gloucestershire (council area)South WestEngland and Wales

South Gloucestershire’s rate was about 1.2% in 2019, peaked at 4% in May 2020 and has averaged 2% 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.

Claimant rate
7.1%
of 16 to 64s in the built-up area, January to August 2026
29 people in August 2026 · typical UK town 2.7%
Employment deprivation
11%
of 18 to 66s out of work through unemployment, sickness, disability or caring
IoD 2025
Income deprivation
22%
of residents in low-income households on means-tested benefits
In the most deprived tenth
0%
of residents live in England’s most employment-deprived 10% of areas

The chart is the whole council area of South Gloucestershire, which Nomis publishes monthly; the figures above the line are for Easter Compton’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).

The daily tide

Easter Compton fills up on a working day: 49% more workers

343 residents were in work at the 2021 Census; 510 people worked in Easter Compton.

Live in Easter Compton343 in work
1572184
Work in Easter Compton510 people
3242184
Commute in · 324Commute out · 157Live and work here · 2At home or no fixed place · 184

For every resident who leaves Easter Compton for work, about 2 people come in. 1% 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.

On the map

Easter Compton’s workers come from Bristol to Kingswood and Fishponds

Bristol: 81 commute inKingswood and Fishponds: 42 commute inWeston-super-Mare: 16 commute inThornbury: 14 commute inNewport: 8 commute inYate: 7 commute inAlmondsbury: 7 commute inSevern Beach: 6 commute inUndy and Magor: 5 commute inBristolKingswood and FishpondsWeston-super-MareThornburyNewportYateUndy and MagorBristol: 49 residents work therePatchway: 18 residents work thereKingswood and Fishponds: 10 residents work thereSevern Beach: 7 residents work therePortishead: 6 residents work thereBristolPatchwayKingswood and FishpondsPortisheadEaster Compton5 miles
Grey dots: where people live (Census 2021). Places drawn centre to centre; flows under 5 people are listed, not drawn.
Where residents work, outside Easter Compton
  1. Bristol49
  2. Countryside22
  3. Patchway18
  4. Kingswood and Fishponds10
  5. Severn Beach7
  6. Portishead6
  7. Avonmouth4
  8. Filton4
  9. Tockington4
  10. Thornbury4

Bristol, 6 miles away, sends 81 people, more than any other town; in all, 64% of the people who work in Easter Compton live outside it. Going the other way, Bristol is the biggest single destination (49).

The ten places that send the most workers into Easter Compton, and the ten where its residents most often work (Census 2021, by home and workplace). Line width is the number of people.

Household income

Households in Easter Compton average £59,188 a year

Higher than 68% of UK towns of 2,500+; the typical town is £52,385. The whole council area of South Gloucestershire averages £60,634.

Easter Compton £59KTypical UK town £52K
£45K£50K£55K£60K£65K

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).

What residents do

62% of people 16 and over in Easter Compton are in work

Easter Compton
60%27%
England’s towns
56%21%
In workStudents in workUnemployedStudentsRetiredLong-term sick or disabledLooking after home or familyOther
Residents in work, by occupation points above or below England’s towns
Managers, directors and senior officials20%+7.6
Professional occupations24%+3.8
Associate professional and technical occupations13%−0.5
Administrative and secretarial occupations12%+2.9
Skilled trades occupations13%+2.6
Caring, leisure and other service occupations3%−5.9
Sales and customer service occupations4%−3.8
Process, plant and machine operatives5%−2.1
Elementary occupations6%−4.5

ONS Census 2021, tables TS066 (economic activity) and TS063 (occupation), output areas summed to the built-up area. England’s 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.

Neighbours

Work in and around Easter Compton

TownPeopleJobsWork in own townClaimantsGrade
Easter Compton6547921%7.1%—
Pilning1,4006672%2.4%B
Patchway16,51730,12119%2.9%B
Severn Beach2,2087,48314%2.5%B−
Almondsbury2,9371,0004%1.8%A
Bradley Stoke25,19414,34515%1.6%A+
Filton10,95511,51812%2.8%B
Olveston1,0094932%1.1%A

Jobs based in each place, commuters who stay in their own town, and the claimant rate.

How to read these numbers

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. Easter Compton 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 South Gloucestershire as a whole; the claimant rate elsewhere on this page is Easter Compton’s built-up area, from small areas.

Questions about work in Easter Compton

Where do people in Easter Compton work?

At the 2021 Census, 1% of Easter Compton’s residents who travelled to work worked in the village itself; the most common other places were Bristol (49), Patchway (18) and Kingswood and Fishponds (10). 54% 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 Easter Compton?

324 people who lived elsewhere worked in Easter Compton at the 2021 Census, 64% of its 510 workers. The most came from Bristol (81), Kingswood and Fishponds (42) and Weston-super-Mare (16). 157 residents travelled out the other way.

How many jobs are there in Easter Compton?

About 790 jobs (employees and working owners) were based in Easter Compton in 2024, on ONS’s Business Register and Employment Survey: 2.3 for every resident in work, against 0.7 in the typical UK town. The biggest kinds of work are warehousing and logistics (about 170), shops (about 140) and restaurants, cafés and pubs (about 40).

How do people in Easter Compton get to work?

89% of commuters go by car or van, 5% walk, 2% cycle and 3% take the bus or train; 31% travel under 5 km. Census 2021, taken during lockdown.

What is the average household income in Easter Compton?

Mean household income before tax was £59,188 in the year to March 2023 (ONS), against £52,385 in the typical UK town.

How does Easter Compton compare with Kingswood and Fishponds for jobs?

Easter Compton has 2.3 jobs per working resident against Kingswood and Fishponds’ 0.6, a 7.1% claimant rate against 2.8%, and mean household income of £59,188 against £55,923.

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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