Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Hounslow

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 1,375 employee jobs in Hounslow, 0.85% of the 162,000 employee jobs in the area.

Parcel volume follows population and depot placement rather than local industry, so an area with a sorting hub in it carries a count well above its size. Taking freight, warehousing and courier work together, Hounslow records 2,975 employee jobs, 1.84% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 195 postal and courier activities workplaces in Hounslow at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 180 of them, 92.3%, employ under ten, and many of those are owner-drivers, so employment status matters more here than the vehicle.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Hounslow, 115 are part time, 9.5% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Hounslow sits below it, 28th of 33 areas on this measure. That is a mostly full-time split, which tends to go with employed rounds on a fixed rota.

Two further counts round out the Hounslow picture: 600 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Hounslow ranks 1st of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.85% in Hounslow. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Hounslow in that order sit Barking and Dagenham at 0.72%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Hounslow ranks 8th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 180 in Hounslow. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Hounslow in that order sit Hillingdon at 190 and Redbridge at 180.

That is the size of the courier trade in Hounslow, 1,375 jobs across 195 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.