Information taken from HARGRAVE - A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE.
May 2004
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A subscriber to the Suffolk Chronicle in 1914 wrote that ‘Hargrave is best described as a retired village’. If those words were used to convey seclusion they may equally be true today, but the level of activity in employment mirrors normality.  Our number of retired residents is 18%, which is roughly  the national average, and excluding our housewives and our young people in full time education, our employed residents amount to almost 60% of our population. Unemployment is low at 2.3%.

Out-commuting is a feature of our residents’ employment with less than one third of the total being employed within the village. Of those working outside the village, roughly half travel to Bury, Newmarket and Cambridge.  However, our survey indicates some in-commuting to businesses based in the village.

Our survey recorded twenty-five businesses located in the village but sixteen of these are self employed people with no employees. A further twenty people are self employed but based outside Hargrave. Nine businesses employ twenty-four people in the village.

The businesses located in Hargrave include agriculture (11), construction (3), finance and professional services (2), transport (1), and three manufacturing outlets.