Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Tower Hamlets

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 510 employee jobs in Tower Hamlets, 0.15% of the 344,000 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, Tower Hamlets records 1,635 employee jobs, 0.48% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 75 postal and courier activities workplaces in Tower Hamlets at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 70 of them, 93.3%, 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 Tower Hamlets, 75 are part time, 15.5% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Tower Hamlets sits above it, 10th 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 Tower Hamlets picture: 900 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 225 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Tower Hamlets ranks 17th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.15% in Tower Hamlets. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Tower Hamlets in that order sit Waltham Forest at 0.17% and Havering at 0.14%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Tower Hamlets ranks 26th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 70 in Tower Hamlets. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Tower Hamlets in that order sit Westminster at 75 and Sutton at 65.

That is the size of the courier trade in Tower Hamlets, 510 jobs across 75 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.