Wales Country (Dep) : Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)

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Year Agriculture Mining Manufacturing Util+Const+Transp Services
1841 111,558 Show data context 42,053 Show data context 64,712 Show data context 30,060 Show data context 97,991 Show data context
1861 150,248 Show data context 54,517 Show data context 97,046 Show data context 48,295 Show data context 94,826 Show data context
1881 88,558 Show data context 85,964 Show data context 114,294 Show data context 62,499 Show data context 149,839 Show data context
1911 118,498 Show data context 252,500 Show data context 194,954 Show data context 149,671 Show data context 288,410 Show data context
1931 94,310 Show data context 204,320 Show data context 144,990 Show data context 124,024 Show data context 329,730 Show data context
1951 86,340 Show data context 132,241 Show data context 275,909 Show data context 177,045 Show data context 366,918 Show data context
1971 44,109 Show data context 50,979 Show data context 302,305 Show data context 172,962 Show data context 379,576 Show data context
1991 36,931 Show data context 7,629 Show data context 225,638 Show data context 153,559 Show data context 626,896 Show data context
2001 29,517 Show data context 4,096 Show data context 205,713 Show data context 161,647 Show data context 785,545 Show data context
2011 23,497 Show data context 3,176 Show data context 143,751 Show data context 187,820 Show data context 1,005,371 Show data context
2021 25,185 Show data context 2,554 Show data context 118,785 Show data context 193,282 Show data context 1,028,474 Show data context
Date Source
1841 1841 Census of Great Britain, Occupations, Table [1] , 'Occupation Abstract'
1861 1861 Census of England and Wales, Ages, Table 17 , 'Occupations of Males aged 20 Years and upwards in Districts'
1881 Great Britain Historical GIS Project Computed from 1881 microdata
1911 1911 Census of England and Wales, Occupations Vol 1, Table 15 A, 'Grouped occupations of Males and Females aged 10 years and upwards, in Administrative Counties, County Boroughs, Metropolitan Boroughs, Urban Districts of which the population exceeded 5,000 persons, aggregates of other Urban Districts, and aggregates of Rural Districts; also proportion per 1,000 of unmarried, married, widowed, and of married and widowed women engaged in occupations, and proportion of female domestic servants to separate occupiers or families, 1911 - Males'
1931 1931 Census of England and Wales, Industry, Table 3 , 'Industries (condensed list) of Males and Females (exclusive of persons out of work)'
1951 1951 Census of England and Wales, Industry, Table 3 , 'Industries (Orders and Selected Units) and Status Aggregates. Occupied Males and Females aged 15 and over', for 'Urban Areas with population of less than 50,000, RD, NT'
1971 1971 Census of England and Wales, Economic activity County Leaflets, Table 3 , 'Industry and status by area of workplace and sex', for 'County, county boroughs, urban areas with populations of 50,000 or more, conurbation centres'
1991 Census of Population
2001 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table UV034, Industry (17 way))
2011 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table KS605UK - Industry)
2021 Office for National Statistics, ONS "Create a Custom Dataset" ("Industry (current)" (19 way))

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This very simplified view of the changing industrial base of communities does identify the traditional sectors of Agriculture, Mining and Manufacturing which dominated many areas in the nineteenth century, but provides no breakdown of the service sector, in which the large majority of us now work.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Wales Country (Dep) through time | Historical Statistics on Industry | Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way), A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 08th April 2026