Kingston upon Hull Unitary Authority (City/UA) : Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)

Simplified Industrial Structure (5-way)

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Year Agriculture Mining Manufacturing Util+Const+Transp Services
1841 718 Show data context 8 Show data context 6,862 Show data context 3,445 Show data context 8,082 Show data context
1861 1,420 Show data context 16 Show data context 8,402 Show data context 6,775 Show data context 9,374 Show data context
1881 2,483 Show data context 117 Show data context 18,662 Show data context 13,867 Show data context 20,358 Show data context
1911 2,491 Show data context 219 Show data context 37,979 Show data context 34,507 Show data context 39,033 Show data context
1931 5,907 Show data context 72 Show data context 36,257 Show data context 28,471 Show data context 49,904 Show data context
1951 4,163 Show data context 43 Show data context 44,196 Show data context 33,648 Show data context 47,575 Show data context
1971 2,127 Show data context 30 Show data context 40,679 Show data context 25,967 Show data context 61,910 Show data context
1991 610 Show data context 70 Show data context 25,704 Show data context 16,528 Show data context 67,788 Show data context
2001 1,076 Show data context 234 Show data context 19,898 Show data context 14,708 Show data context 60,060 Show data context
2011 426 Show data context 231 Show data context 16,851 Show data context 16,792 Show data context 76,603 Show data context
2021 563 Show data context 213 Show data context 17,900 Show data context 18,433 Show data context 80,662 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, Kingston upon Hull Unitary Authority (City/UA) 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