Cornwall Unitary Authority (UA) : Registrar General's Social Class

Registrar General's Social Class

Data cube chart.

Registrar General's Social Class 1841 1881 1931
Class 1 1,141 Show data context 1,793 Show data context 2,326 Show data context
Class 2 14,625 Show data context 19,378 Show data context 27,354 Show data context
Class 3 (Non-manual) 415 Show data context 2,063 Show data context 14,537 Show data context
Class 3 (Manual) 72,977 Show data context 63,199 Show data context 46,117 Show data context
Class 4 25,504 Show data context 25,758 Show data context 21,581 Show data context
Class 5 5,262 Show data context 4,606 Show data context 18,689 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'

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Occupations of both sexes classified using the Registrar General's Social Classification.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Cornwall Unitary Authority (UA) through time | Historical Statistics on Social Structure | Registrar General's Social Class, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 10th April 2026