Inverness Ness Side Ward : NS Socio-economic Classification: Totals

NS Socio-economic Classification: Totals

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Year Occupied Unoccupied
1971 320 Show data context 44 Show data context
1981 404 Show data context 26 Show data context
1991 385 Show data context 9 Show data context
2001 4,854 Show data context 425 Show data context
2011 8,907 Show data context 617 Show data context
2021 8,275 Show data context 829 Show data context
Date Source
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 National Records of Scotland, Scotland's Census (Table UV31, NS-SeC (51 way))
2011 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table QS607UK - NS-SeC)
2021 National Records of Scotland, Scotland's Census (Table UV607, NS-SeC, for "all people aged 16 and over")

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This classification of industry is that used by the 2011 Census, and forms the basic for our standardisation of historical information on industrial structure. The modern data are a classification of workers by their employers' business and count them by their place of work. However, before 1951 they are counted by place of residence, and before 1921 workers have to be classified by their individual occupations. Here we break the numbers in each industry down by gender, but this is not possible with the 2011 dat...


a, only with the re-districted and re-classified historical statisics.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Inverness Ness Side Ward through time | Historical Statistics on Social Structure | NS Socio-economic Classification: Totals, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 01st August 2026