Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Waltham Forest

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 150 employee jobs in Waltham Forest, 0.17% of the 89,000 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, Waltham Forest records 1,000 employee jobs, 1.12% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 135 postal and courier activities workplaces in Waltham Forest at the March 2025 reference date. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 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 Waltham Forest, 25 are part time, 14.3% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Waltham Forest sits level with it, 13th 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 Waltham Forest picture: 500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 350 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Waltham Forest ranks 16th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.17% in Waltham Forest. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Waltham Forest in that order sit Lewisham at 0.17% and Tower Hamlets at 0.15%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Waltham Forest ranks 14th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 135 in Waltham Forest. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Waltham Forest in that order sit Lewisham at 140 and Greenwich at 130.

That is the size of the courier trade in Waltham Forest, 150 jobs across 135 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.