Distance travelled to work on East Grampian Coast

Between 2001 and 2022, change occurred in working patterns and the distances people travelled to work around the UK and along the East Grampian Coast. This change may be due to improving technology over this period, but increased dramatically due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns.

In 2001, only 3% of people either worked or studied from home. In 2011, this increased to 8% and by 2022 had increased again to 24%. The next census for 2031 will show if this trend has continued.

There has been a large reduction in the number of people traveling less than 2km to work - in 2001 nearly 25% of people travelled less than 2km for work but by 2022 this figure decreased to less than 10%. In 2022, for those travelling to work the most common distance was between 2-5km, although the largest proportion of people actually worked from home (24%).

These figures have been taken from census records relating to selected coastal wards.