Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0Redhill has higher household incomes than 89% of UK towns
53% of residents who travel to work go less than 3 miles. Redhill grades A for jobs and income against UK towns, #37 of 65 in Surrey. The working day brings 9,075 people in, filling the town.
What Redhill’s work numbers say
A local job centre
20,525 jobs are based in Redhill for 17,371 working residents; the typical UK town has 0.7 jobs per resident in work. Hospitals and health care, education and financial services support make up 44% of them. Jobs based here ↓
The town fills up on a working day
9,075 people come in to work and 5,506 residents go out, so Redhill gains about 3,569 workers a day. Crawley sends the most (1,401). The daily tide ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 and BRES, DWP claimant counts via Nomis, and ONS household income.
Jobs & income in Redhill: graded A
Taken together, its four measures make it better than 88% of UK towns: #37 of 65 in Surrey.
Its strongest measure is getting to jobs without a car; its weakest, the claimant rate.
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.
20,525 jobs, 35% in health and social care
1.2 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 (20,900). 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 Redhill (employees and working owners, ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2024).
Each working day, Redhill’s workforce swells by 20%
17,371 residents were in work at the 2021 Census; 20,900 people worked in Redhill.
For every resident who leaves Redhill for work, about 2 people come in. 33% 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.
Redhill’s workers come from Crawley to Croydon
- Crawley1,401
- Horley944
- Reigate800
- Croydon738
- South Merstham496
- Countryside372
- Caterham280
- Sutton247
- Tadworth and Epsom Downs198
- Horsham184
- Reigate935
- Countryside429
- Crawley386
- South Merstham310
- Croydon299
- Sutton222
- Horley186
- Dorking138
- Tadworth and Epsom Downs127
- Westminster122
Crawley, 9 miles away, sends 1,401 people, more than any other town; in all, 43% of the people who work in Redhill live outside it. Going the other way, Reigate is the biggest single destination (935).
The ten places that send the most workers into Redhill, and the ten where its residents most often work (Census 2021, by home and workplace). Line width is the number of people.
Households in Redhill average £70,638 a year
The whole council area of Reigate and Banstead averages £70,609.
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).
The richest and poorest parts of Redhill: £67K to £73K
Mean household income before tax in each of the 3 neighbourhoods (MSOAs) mostly inside the town: the highest is 1.1 times the lowest.
Each dot is a neighbourhood (MSOA, about 8,000 people) mostly inside Redhill; names from the House of Commons Library. ONS gives each a 95% range of roughly ±£7K to ±£10K, so neighbourhoods close together on the strip may not really differ.
33% of commuters in Redhill go on foot, by bike or by public transport
Median journey 4.7 km; typical UK town 8.4 km.
Redhill grades A+ 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 Reigate and Banstead council area have run below England and Wales every month since 2015
Reigate and Banstead’s rate was about 1.1% in 2019, peaked at 4.3% in February 2021 and has averaged 2.2% 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.
The chart is the whole council area of Reigate and Banstead, which Nomis publishes monthly; the figures above the line are for Redhill’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).
67% of adults in Redhill are in work
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.
Out of 208 UK towns of 23,000 to 44,000, Redhill comes 33rd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Jobs per worker | Work in own town | Claimants | Income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harpenden Hertfordshire | 30,964 | 0.8 | 30% | 1.5% | £92K | A+ |
| 2 | Sevenoaks Kent | 26,474 | 1.2 | 34% | 1.6% | £84K | A+ |
| 3 | Chandler's Ford Hampshire | 31,965 | 1 | 18% | 1.6% | £72K | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Reigate Surrey | 23,774 | 1.4 | 22% | 1.8% | £74K | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Ewell Surrey | 27,509 | 0.4 | 8% | 2% | £74K | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | New Haw, West Byfleet and Sheerwater Surrey | 33,035 | 0.7 | 15% | 2.4% | £76K | A |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Rayleigh Essex | 32,383 | 0.6 | 18% | 2.2% | £65K | A |
| 32 | Didcot Oxfordshire | 34,600 | 0.5 | 28% | 2.4% | £67K | A |
| 33 | Redhill Surrey | 32,516 | 1.2 | 33% | 2.6% | £71K | A |
| 34 | Lee-on-the-Solent Hampshire | 24,307 | 0.4 | 12% | 1.8% | £63K | A |
| 35 | Windsor Berkshire | 31,569 | 1.7 | 32% | 3% | £69K | A |
| … | |||||||
| 208 | Bridlington East Riding of Yorkshire | 34,831 | 0.7 | 46% | 5% | £33K | 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 Redhill, and others in Surrey.
Work in the places around Redhill
| Town | People | Jobs | Work in own town | Claimants | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redhill | 32,516 | 20,525 | 33% | 2.6% | A |
| Reigate | 23,774 | 15,951 | 22% | 1.8% | A+ |
| South Nutfield | 1,951 | 1,044 | 4% | 2.1% | A− |
| South Merstham | 9,953 | 3,273 | 11% | 3.2% | B+ |
| Salfords | 1,873 | 2,849 | 5% | 2.2% | A |
| Lower Kingswood | 2,029 | 1,634 | 3% | 1.6% | A+ |
| Bletchingley | 2,372 | 495 | 5% | 2.4% | B+ |
| Horley | 27,067 | 6,723 | 16% | 2.7% | A− |
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. Redhill 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 Reigate and Banstead as a whole; the claimant rate elsewhere on this page is Redhill’s built-up area, from small areas.
Questions about work in Redhill
Where do people in Redhill work?
At the 2021 Census, 33% of Redhill’s residents who travelled to work worked in the town itself; the most common other places were Reigate (935), Crawley (386) and South Merstham (310). 53% 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 Redhill?
9,075 people who lived elsewhere worked in Redhill at the 2021 Census, 43% of its 20,900 workers. The most came from Crawley (1,401), Horley (944) and Reigate (800). 5,506 residents travelled out the other way.
How many jobs are there in Redhill?
About 20,550 jobs (employees and working owners) were based in Redhill in 2024, on ONS’s Business Register and Employment Survey: 1.2 for every resident in work, against 0.7 in the typical UK town. The biggest kinds of work are hospitals and health care (about 6,550), education (about 1,410) and financial services support (about 1,220).
Is Redhill a good place to find work?
Redhill earns an A for jobs and income, better than 88% of UK towns on household income, the claimant rate, employment deprivation and access to jobs together. Mean household income £70,638; 2.6% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits.
How do people in Redhill get to work?
63% of commuters go by car or van, 17% walk, 2% cycle and 14% take the bus or train; 53% travel under 5 km. Census 2021, taken during lockdown.
What is the average household income in Redhill?
Mean household income before tax was £70,638 in the year to March 2023 (ONS), against £52,385 in the typical UK town. By neighbourhood it runs from £67,273 in Earlswood & Whitebushes to £73,201 in Redhill East.
How does Redhill compare with Guildford for jobs?
Redhill has 1.2 jobs per working resident against Guildford’s 1.6, a 2.6% claimant rate against 2.2%, and mean household income of £70,638 against £69,856.
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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