Mid Suffolk District : NS Socio-economic Classification (4-way)

NS Socio-economic Classification (4-way)

Data cube chart.

Year Higher managerial, administrative & professional occupations Intermediate occupations Routine & manual occupations Never worked & long-term unemployed
1841 2,597 Show data context 7,884 Show data context 9,870 Show data context
1881 4,306 Show data context 10,330 Show data context 13,079 Show data context
1931 4,038 Show data context 8,367 Show data context 10,124 Show data context
1971 983 Show data context 769 Show data context 798 Show data context 918 Show data context
1981 1,382 Show data context 784 Show data context 917 Show data context 715 Show data context
1991 1,855 Show data context 659 Show data context 951 Show data context 322 Show data context
2001 17,682 Show data context 11,688 Show data context 18,292 Show data context 3,578 Show data context
2011 40,219 Show data context 18,457 Show data context 22,392 Show data context 5,372 Show data context
2021 30,994 Show data context 22,819 Show data context 24,474 Show data context 8,017 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'
1971 UK Data Service, Census 1971 data (Table SAS23: "SEG and economic position (10% Sample): Economically Active residents")
1981 UK Data Service, Census 1981 data (SAS50: "Socio-Economic group and economic positions (10% Sample): Economically active residents")
1991 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table S92 "SEG and economic position (10% sample): Economically active residents)
2001 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table UV031, NS-Sec (21 way))
2011 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table QS607UK - NS-SeC)
2021 Office for National Statistics, ONS "Create a Custom Dataset" (National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (17 way))

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nCube definition


Housing density, simplified to under 1 person per room, 1 to 1.5, and over 1.5. Data for these categories can be computed for districts in England and Wales for all censuses from 1931 onwards, but for Scotland they can only be computed for 1971 on.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Mid Suffolk District through time | Historical Statistics on Social Structure | NS Socio-economic Classification (4-way), A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 03rd June 2026