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

Most of Bubbenhall works elsewhere: the town has 0.3 jobs for each resident in work

1.2% of people of working age are on jobless benefits, next to 2.7% in the typical UK town. Each working day 123 residents head out to work, and 62 people come the other way. Jobs and income go ungraded in Bubbenhall.

What stands out · In brief

Jobs and income in Bubbenhall: what the figures say

Longer journeys to work

Against 45% across England’s towns. 2% of commuters walk to work (11% across England’s towns). Getting to work ↓

Fewer benefit claims than most towns

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

Getting to work

In Bubbenhall, 5% of commuters leave the car behind

Median journey 9.6 km; typical UK town 8.4 km.

Drive84%Warwickshire 75% · England 64%
Passenger7%Warwickshire 6% · England 6%
Walk2%Warwickshire 11% · England 11%
Cycle1%Warwickshire 3% · England 3%
Bus0.7%Warwickshire 2% · England 6%
Train1%Warwickshire 1% · England 3%
Other3%Warwickshire 2% · England 6%
BubbenhallWarwickshire’s townsEngland’s towns
How far they travel England’s towns
0%
Under 2 km
16%
2–5 km
37%
5–10 km
24%
10–20 km
12%
20–30 km
1%
30–40 km
2%
40–60 km
8%
60 km +

16% of journeys to work are under 5 km (3 miles), against 45% across England’s towns, and 10% are 30 km or more.

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 Warwick council area have run below England and Wales every month since 2015

0%2%4%6%8%201520172019202120232025First lockdownCensus dayWest Midlands 5.3%England & Wales 4%Warwick 2.5%
Warwick (council area)West MidlandsEngland and Wales

Warwick’s rate was about 1.3% in 2019, peaked at 4.1% 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.

Claimant rate
1.2%
of 16 to 64s in the built-up area, January to August 2026
5 people in August 2026 · typical UK town 2.7%
Employment deprivation
5.3%
of 18 to 66s out of work through unemployment, sickness, disability or caring
IoD 2025
Income deprivation
7.3%
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 Warwick, which Nomis publishes monthly; the figures above the line are for Bubbenhall’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

The daily tide in Bubbenhall runs outward

291 residents were in work at the 2021 Census; 229 people worked in Bubbenhall.

Live in Bubbenhall291 in work
123168
Work in Bubbenhall229 people
62167
Commute in · 62Commute out · 123Live and work here · 0At home or no fixed place · 167

For every person who comes in to work, about 2 residents travel out.

The middle of each bar is the same people: residents who work in the village or from home.

On the map

Bubbenhall’s commuters work from Royal Leamington Spa to Coventry

Coventry: 27 commute inBirmingham: 7 commute inCoventryBirminghamRoyal Leamington Spa: 15 residents work thereCoventry: 14 residents work thereWarwick: 13 residents work thereBaginton: 6 residents work thereKenilworth: 5 residents work thereRoyal Leamington SpaCoventryWarwickKenilworthBubbenhall5 miles
Grey dots: where people live (Census 2021). Places drawn centre to centre; flows under 5 people are listed, not drawn.

100% of residents who travel to a workplace work outside Bubbenhall; Royal Leamington Spa takes the most (15). Coming the other way, Coventry sends the most (27).

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

Jobs based here

87 jobs, 16% in transport and storage

Share of jobs by industry England’s towns
Transport and storage16%
Manufacturing11%
Professional, scientific and technical11%
Business administration and support10%
Wholesale9%
Education7%
Arts, leisure and other services6%
Information and communication6%
Health and social care6%
Hotels, pubs and restaurants5%

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 (229). 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 Bubbenhall (employees and working owners, ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2024).

Household income

How much households earn in Bubbenhall: £66,370

Higher than 83% of UK towns of 2,500+; the typical town is £52,385. The whole council area of Warwick averages £62,933.

Bubbenhall £66KTypical UK town £52K
£50K£55K£60K£65K£70K

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

Retirement is the main occupation for 33% of adults in Bubbenhall

Bubbenhall
52%6%33%
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 officials22%+9.4
Professional occupations30%+9.4
Associate professional and technical occupations17%+3.4
Administrative and secretarial occupations11%+1.6
Skilled trades occupations5%−5.2
Caring, leisure and other service occupations7%−2.5
Sales and customer service occupations2%−5.9
Process, plant and machine operatives2%−5
Elementary occupations5%−5.2

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 the places around Bubbenhall

TownPeopleJobsWork in own townClaimantsGrade
Bubbenhall64787—1.2%—
Ryton-on-Dunsmore1,8293,0007%2.8%C+
Stretton-on-Dunsmore1,1764008%1.1%A−
Cubbington3,8951,1526%2.1%A−
Wolston2,6935475%3.2%C+
Binley Woods2,5694754%2.2%A−
Kenilworth22,2394,98621%1.8%A+
Coventry344,289158,62658%6%C

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. Bubbenhall 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 Warwick as a whole; the claimant rate elsewhere on this page is Bubbenhall’s built-up area, from small areas.

Questions about work in Bubbenhall

How many people commute into Bubbenhall?

62 people who lived elsewhere worked in Bubbenhall at the 2021 Census, 27% of its 229 workers. The most came from Coventry (27), Birmingham (7) and Royal Leamington Spa (4). 123 residents travelled out the other way.

How many jobs are there in Bubbenhall?

About 90 jobs (employees and working owners) were based in Bubbenhall in 2024, on ONS’s Business Register and Employment Survey: 0.3 for every resident in work, against 0.7 in the typical UK town.

How do people in Bubbenhall get to work?

91% of commuters go by car or van, 2% walk, 1% cycle and 2% take the bus or train; 16% travel under 5 km. Census 2021, taken during lockdown.

What is the average household income in Bubbenhall?

Mean household income before tax was £66,370 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) · 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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