NS Socio-economic Classification (4-way)
| Year | Higher managerial, administrative & professional occupations | Intermediate occupations | Routine & manual occupations | Never worked & long-term unemployed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1841 |
18,652
|
83,749
|
43,912
|
|
| 1881 |
86,731
|
263,463
|
146,402
|
|
| 1931 |
87,117
|
372,914
|
258,505
|
|
| 1971 |
33,200
|
23,102
|
23,000
|
10,296
|
| 1981 |
32,905
|
20,690
|
20,754
|
9,397
|
| 1991 |
29,034
|
11,955
|
14,037
|
934
|
| 2001 |
207,764
|
137,791
|
267,542
|
137,493
|
| 2011 |
458,336
|
211,544
|
361,599
|
180,976
|
| 2021 |
331,512
|
242,771
|
366,471
|
231,700
|
| Date | Source |
|---|---|
| 1841 - 2021 | Great Britain Historical GIS Project |
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The 1831 census provides information, down to parish-level, on the occupations of males aged over 20 using nine categories. Here we reorganise this information to provide a crude measure of social status, based more on contemporary ideas than on modern definitions of social class: "middling sorts" combines small farmers not employing labourers with both masters and skilled workers in urban manufacturing and handicrafts.