Yorkshire and the Humber Government Region : Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)

Data cube chart.

Year Agriculture Mining Manufacturing Util+Const+Transp Services
1841 104,633 Show data context 20,070 Show data context 273,693 Show data context 43,552 Show data context 133,841 Show data context
1861 145,005 Show data context 31,148 Show data context 320,838 Show data context 73,435 Show data context 154,974 Show data context
1881 104,453 Show data context 65,480 Show data context 486,347 Show data context 127,614 Show data context 270,766 Show data context
1911 117,300 Show data context 151,865 Show data context 764,062 Show data context 256,068 Show data context 488,810 Show data context
1931 100,161 Show data context 182,202 Show data context 701,912 Show data context 220,609 Show data context 604,894 Show data context
1951 92,169 Show data context 150,470 Show data context 858,695 Show data context 286,837 Show data context 696,383 Show data context
1971 51,550 Show data context 83,584 Show data context 735,203 Show data context 285,816 Show data context 807,086 Show data context
1991 38,451 Show data context 28,215 Show data context 466,367 Show data context 284,082 Show data context 1,173,544 Show data context
2001 35,557 Show data context 9,157 Show data context 378,730 Show data context 307,594 Show data context 1,452,066 Show data context
2011 22,642 Show data context 5,558 Show data context 272,746 Show data context 345,778 Show data context 1,781,350 Show data context
2021 23,888 Show data context 4,012 Show data context 231,304 Show data context 373,468 Show data context 1,828,464 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, Yorkshire and the Humber Government Region through time | Historical Statistics on Industry | Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way), A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 10th April 2026