Reading Unitary Authority (UA) : 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 995 Show data context 4,298 Show data context 1,831 Show data context
1881 3,484 Show data context 12,977 Show data context 6,250 Show data context
1931 5,919 Show data context 24,815 Show data context 13,626 Show data context
1971 2,980 Show data context 1,726 Show data context 1,613 Show data context 885 Show data context
1981 3,684 Show data context 1,713 Show data context 1,683 Show data context 491 Show data context
1991 3,862 Show data context 1,084 Show data context 1,407 Show data context 94 Show data context
2001 36,414 Show data context 17,380 Show data context 25,750 Show data context 14,490 Show data context
2011 67,074 Show data context 21,915 Show data context 31,554 Show data context 21,308 Show data context
2021 50,802 Show data context 26,402 Show data context 37,312 Show data context 26,892 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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Total deaths. We include here expected counts calculated from age-specific national mortality rates and census data on local age structures.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Reading Unitary Authority (UA) 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: 05th June 2026