Places
Town by town
Every town on the estuary has its own industrial character. Pick yours to see what really drives local employment and where the growth is.
East Riding of Yorkshire
The East Riding's market towns and coast run on a different economy to the Humber's industrial waterfront, but easy commuting into Hull puts the region's bigger employers within reach too.
Barton-upon-Humber
Barton-upon-Humber is a small town with an outsized manufacturing employer and a bridge on its doorstep, which means residents can work locally at Wren Kitchens, cross to Hull in half an hour, or head south to Scunthorpe and the Immingham port complex.
Beverley
Beverley is a market town with a public-sector backbone, home to East Riding of Yorkshire Council's headquarters, a community hospital and a college campus, and close enough to Hull that many residents work in the city.
Bridlington
Bridlington is the largest town in the East Riding outside Hull, a resort whose economy rests on tourism, a harbour that lands more lobster than any other port in Europe, and a health and care sector serving an older coastal population.
Cleethorpes
Cleethorpes runs on visitors in summer and on Grimsby the rest of the year, with tourism and hospitality work in the resort itself and the seafood, offshore wind and marine employers of the neighbouring town a short bus ride away.
Goole
Goole punches above its size as a logistics and rail manufacturing centre, combining M62 road access, an ABP-operated port and Humber Freeport tax site status.
Grimsby
Grimsby pairs one of Europe's largest seafood-processing clusters with a fast-growing offshore wind and marine engineering base, anchored by Young's Seafood, Ørsted and the Humber Marine and Renewables network.
Hull
Hull's economy blends heavy manufacturing, chemicals and healthcare with a fast-growing renewables sector, giving the city one of the more varied job markets in the Humber.
Immingham
A small North East Lincolnshire town that punches well above its size industrially, Immingham's job market is built almost entirely around the port and the process plant on its doorstep.
Scunthorpe
Scunthorpe's economy has long been defined by steelmaking, but North Lincolnshire's job market today reaches well beyond the works into engineering, food and logistics.