Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Blackburn with Darwen

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 175 employee jobs in Blackburn with Darwen, 0.24% of the 72,000 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, Blackburn with Darwen records 1,225 employee jobs, 1.7% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 85 postal and courier activities workplaces in Blackburn with Darwen at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing under ten. A one-person courier operation is usually an owner-driver, and an owner-driver round is a contract, not a job.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Blackburn with Darwen, 45 are part time, 25.7% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Blackburn with Darwen sits above it, 2nd of 24 areas on this measure. Parcel rounds are built around peaks rather than a working week, and a part-time share at this level is the ordinary result.

Two further counts round out the Blackburn with Darwen picture: 600 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 450 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Blackburn with Darwen ranks 15th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 0.28%, against 0.24% in Blackburn with Darwen. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Blackburn with Darwen in that order sit St. Helens at 0.25% and Lancashire at 0.24%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Blackburn with Darwen ranks 19th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 113, against 85 in Blackburn with Darwen. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Blackburn with Darwen in that order sit Halton at 90 and Bury at 80.

That is the size of the courier trade in Blackburn with Darwen, 175 jobs across 85 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.