Warrington Unitary Authority (UA) : NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way)

NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way)

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NS Socio-economic Classfication (15 way) 2001 2011 2021
Employers in large establishments 320 Show data context 4,123 Show data context 117 Show data context
Higher managerial & administrative occupations 5,684 Show data context 13,459 Show data context 7,679 Show data context
Higher professional occupations 7,267 Show data context 33,022 Show data context 16,685 Show data context
Lower professional & higher technical occupations 15,084 Show data context 20,766 Show data context 23,869 Show data context
Lower managerial & administrative occupations 8,231 Show data context 7,954 Show data context 8,147 Show data context
Higher supervisory occupations 4,293 Show data context 4,302 Show data context 4,458 Show data context
Intermediate occupations 14,503 Show data context 21,686 Show data context 22,326 Show data context
Employers in small organisations 2,883 Show data context 3,061 Show data context 3,016 Show data context
Own account workers 4,769 Show data context 8,098 Show data context 12,073 Show data context
Lower supervisory occupations 7,027 Show data context 5,848 Show data context 4,300 Show data context
Lower technical occupations 3,732 Show data context 5,141 Show data context 5,262 Show data context
Semi-routine occupations 16,489 Show data context 21,259 Show data context 19,092 Show data context
Routine occupations 13,367 Show data context 17,846 Show data context 23,921 Show data context
Never worked & long-term unemployed 3,741 Show data context 6,115 Show data context 12,445 Show data context
Full-time students 7,273 Show data context 9,803 Show data context 9,209 Show data context
Date Source
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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This classification is designed to permit data from the 1801 Crop Returns to be included with data from the annual Agricultural Census from 1866 onwards. The 1801 Returns were highly simplified, and varied in what they reported from one parish to another, so in practice we can consistently identify only three individual crops (wheat, rye and potatoes) and two pairings ("Barley and Oats", and "Peas and Beans"). Everything else has to be included in "Other". The 1801 returns also provided limited geographical cov...


erage: a great many parishes were missing from the data, and some additional parish names could not be identified, matched more than one parish within the named county, or lacked information on the county they were in. Nottinghamshire is completely missing. County totals include data for parishes that could not be identified. The national total for England includes parishes with missing county information. The national total for England is also used as the total for England and Wales, to permit the web site to present comparisons with national totals, even though the 1801 returns contain no data on Wales.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Warrington Unitary Authority (UA) through time | Historical Statistics on Social Structure | NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way), A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 01st August 2026