Newcastle under Lyme District : Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)

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Year Agriculture Mining Manufacturing Util+Const+Transp Services
1841 2,172 Show data context 1,452 Show data context 7,810 Show data context 869 Show data context 3,295 Show data context
1861 2,763 Show data context 2,969 Show data context 9,704 Show data context 1,765 Show data context 4,147 Show data context
1881 1,530 Show data context 6,355 Show data context 11,747 Show data context 2,591 Show data context 6,461 Show data context
1911 1,404 Show data context 5,164 Show data context 14,851 Show data context 3,638 Show data context 7,843 Show data context
1931 1,569 Show data context 6,202 Show data context 11,860 Show data context 3,510 Show data context 10,259 Show data context
1951 1,526 Show data context 5,366 Show data context 9,038 Show data context 3,790 Show data context 10,446 Show data context
1971 1,052 Show data context 3,479 Show data context 13,972 Show data context 4,711 Show data context 14,698 Show data context
1991 490 Show data context 1,280 Show data context 11,881 Show data context 5,218 Show data context 22,177 Show data context
2001 546 Show data context 111 Show data context 12,420 Show data context 7,653 Show data context 34,310 Show data context
2011 364 Show data context 84 Show data context 7,162 Show data context 8,161 Show data context 41,595 Show data context
2021 456 Show data context 57 Show data context 5,362 Show data context 8,533 Show data context 42,271 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, Newcastle under Lyme District 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