Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in Weybridge have higher incomes than those in 97% of UK towns
Weybridge grades A for jobs and income against UK towns, #23 of 65 in Surrey. On a working day the town fills up: 2,643 people commute in. The journey to work is shorter than 3 miles for 43% of commuters.
Work in Weybridge: the figures worth knowing
More jobs than the typical town
8,125 jobs are based in Weybridge for 7,859 working residents; the typical UK town has 0.7 jobs per resident in work. Education, restaurants, cafés and pubs and shops make up 32% of them. Jobs based here ↓
The town fills up on a working day
2,643 people come in to work and 2,175 residents go out, so Weybridge gains about 468 workers a day. Walton-on-Thames sends the most (276). 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 Weybridge: graded A
Better than 94% of UK towns on four measures together: #23 of 65 in Surrey.
Its strongest measure is household income; 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.
8,125 jobs, one in six in professional, scientific and technical
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 (8,302). 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 Weybridge (employees and working owners, ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2024).
Each working day, Weybridge’s workforce swells by 6%
7,859 residents were in work at the 2021 Census; 8,302 people worked in Weybridge.
17% 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.
Weybridge’s workers come from Walton-on-Thames to Woking
- Walton-on-Thames276
- Addlestone211
- New Haw, West Byfleet and Sheerwater171
- Byfleet170
- West Molesey146
- Woking136
- Hersham109
- Chertsey105
- Countryside94
- Kingston upon Thames79
- Byfleet165
- Walton-on-Thames138
- Countryside135
- Kingston upon Thames108
- Chertsey92
- Addlestone87
- Richmond upon Thames87
- Cobham71
- Westminster66
- Hillingdon66
Walton-on-Thames, 2 miles away, sends 276 people, more than any other town; in all, 32% of the people who work in Weybridge live outside it. Going the other way, Byfleet is the biggest single destination (165).
The ten places that send the most workers into Weybridge, and the ten where its residents most often work (Census 2021, by home and workplace). Line width is the number of people.
Income in Weybridge: £77,932 per household a year
The whole council area of Elmbridge averages £82,255.
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).
Weybridge commutes on foot, by bike or bus for 26% of trips
Median journey 6.9 km; typical UK town 8.4 km.
Weybridge 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 Elmbridge council area have run below England and Wales every month since 2015
Elmbridge’s rate was about 0.9% in 2019, peaked at 3.9% in August 2020 and has averaged 2.4% 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 Elmbridge, which Nomis publishes monthly; the figures above the line are for Weybridge’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).
In work, studying or retired: 63% of Weybridge’s adults 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.
For jobs and income, Weybridge is 26th of 352 UK towns of 11,000 to 21,000
| # | Town | People | Jobs per worker | Work in own town | Claimants | Income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hale Greater Manchester | 16,716 | 0.7 | 7% | 1.1% | £73K | A+ |
| 2 | Ashtead Surrey | 14,830 | 0.7 | 16% | 1.2% | £80K | A+ |
| 3 | Chorleywood Hertfordshire | 12,632 | 0.5 | 8% | 1.5% | £86K | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Worcester Park and Stoneleigh Surrey | 15,851 | 0.4 | 5% | 2.1% | £73K | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Cobham Surrey | 17,505 | 1 | 21% | 1.8% | £85K | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Worsley Greater Manchester | 11,958 | 0.5 | 5% | 1.5% | £59K | A |
| 25 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 0.3 | 7% | 1.3% | £62K | A |
| 26 | Weybridge Surrey | 15,918 | 1 | 17% | 2.6% | £78K | A |
| 27 | Yateley Hampshire | 14,676 | 0.4 | 15% | 1.8% | £70K | A |
| 28 | Tring Hertfordshire | 11,961 | 1 | 26% | 1.9% | £76K | A |
| … | |||||||
| 352 | Holyhead Gwynedd | 11,753 | 0.7 | 40% | 5.8% | £40K | 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 Weybridge, and others in Surrey.
Jobs and income in the places around Weybridge
| Town | People | Jobs | Work in own town | Claimants | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weybridge | 15,918 | 8,125 | 17% | 2.6% | A |
| Shepperton | 5,917 | 2,497 | 11% | 2.1% | A |
| Addlestone | 13,748 | 5,811 | 11% | 3.3% | B |
| Byfleet | 14,187 | 17,388 | 15% | 2.3% | A+ |
| Hersham | 12,622 | 3,669 | 8% | 2.8% | A |
| Walton-on-Thames | 27,016 | 8,624 | 16% | 3.5% | A− |
| Shepperton Green | 4,358 | 1,245 | 3% | 2.4% | A− |
| Upper Halliford | 2,337 | 448 | 2% | 3.8% | B |
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. Weybridge 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 Elmbridge as a whole; the claimant rate elsewhere on this page is Weybridge’s built-up area, from small areas.
Questions about work in Weybridge
Where do people in Weybridge work?
At the 2021 Census, 17% of Weybridge’s residents who travelled to work worked in the town itself; the most common other places were Byfleet (165), Walton-on-Thames (138) and Kingston upon Thames (108). 66% 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 Weybridge?
2,643 people who lived elsewhere worked in Weybridge at the 2021 Census, 32% of its 8,302 workers. The most came from Walton-on-Thames (276), Addlestone (211) and New Haw, West Byfleet and Sheerwater (171). 2,175 residents travelled out the other way.
How many jobs are there in Weybridge?
About 8,130 jobs (employees and working owners) were based in Weybridge in 2024, on ONS’s Business Register and Employment Survey: 1 for every resident in work, against 0.7 in the typical UK town. The biggest kinds of work are education (about 990), restaurants, cafés and pubs (about 720) and shops (about 700).
Is Weybridge a good place to find work?
Weybridge earns an A for jobs and income, better than 94% of UK towns on household income, the claimant rate, employment deprivation and access to jobs together. Mean household income £77,932; 2.6% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits.
How do people in Weybridge get to work?
69% of commuters go by car or van, 13% walk, 4% cycle and 10% take the bus or train; 43% travel under 5 km. Census 2021, taken during lockdown.
What is the average household income in Weybridge?
Mean household income before tax was £77,932 in the year to March 2023 (ONS), against £52,385 in the typical UK town.
How does Weybridge compare with Guildford for jobs?
Weybridge has 1 jobs per working resident against Guildford’s 1.6, a 2.6% claimant rate against 2.2%, and mean household income of £77,932 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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