Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Enfield

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 745 employee jobs in Enfield, 0.68% of the 109,000 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, Enfield records 4,445 employee jobs, 4.08% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 215 postal and courier activities workplaces in Enfield at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 205 of them, 95.3%, employ 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 Enfield, 55 are part time, 6.9% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Enfield sits below it, 32nd of 33 areas on this measure. Almost all of the split is full time, which is unusual in parcel work and generally means employed rounds rather than self-employed ones.

Two further counts round out the Enfield picture: 3,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 700 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Enfield ranks 3rd of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.68% in Enfield. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Enfield in that order sit Barking and Dagenham at 0.72% and Hillingdon at 0.55%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Enfield ranks 5th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 205 in Enfield. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Enfield in that order sit Camden at 225 and Ealing at 195.

That is the size of the courier trade in Enfield, 745 jobs across 215 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.