Waverley District : Registrar General's Social Class

Registrar General's Social Class

Data cube chart.

Registrar General's Social Class 1841 1881 1931
Class 1 474 Show data context 754 Show data context 701 Show data context
Class 2 3,263 Show data context 3,042 Show data context 3,799 Show data context
Class 3 (Non-manual) 588 Show data context 654 Show data context 3,724 Show data context
Class 3 (Manual) 13,301 Show data context 11,333 Show data context 14,251 Show data context
Class 4 5,271 Show data context 14,084 Show data context 3,600 Show data context
Class 5 2,272 Show data context 2,296 Show data context 3,538 Show data context
Date Source
1841 [ERROR: authority is ''SRC'' but auth_note value of does not appear in SRC_TAB]
1881 Great Britain Historical GIS Project Computed from 1881 microdata
1931 1931 Census of England and Wales, Occupations, Table 17 , 'Occupations (condensed list) of Males and Females, showing also the total Operatives and the total Out of Work'

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Occupations of both sexes classified into Socio-Economic Groups. This structure was used by the censuses between 1961 and 1991.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Waverley District through time | Historical Statistics on Social Structure | Registrar General's Social Class, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 09th April 2026