Dorset 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 1 583 Show data context 1,653 Show data context 1,729 Show data context
Class 2 6,012 Show data context 11,335 Show data context 13,081 Show data context
Class 3 (Non-manual) 241 Show data context 2,642 Show data context 8,935 Show data context
Class 3 (Manual) 22,678 Show data context 41,417 Show data context 31,076 Show data context
Class 4 19,262 Show data context 25,273 Show data context 16,520 Show data context
Class 5 3,042 Show data context 6,844 Show data context 9,603 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 into Socio-Economic Groups. This structure was used by the censuses between 1961 and 1991.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Dorset 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: 09th April 2026