York Built-up Area : Census Unemployment by Sex

Census Unemployment by Sex

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Data for 1971 Sex
Census Unemployment Male Female
In employment 26,454 Show data context 17,271 Show data context
Unemployed 1,214 Show data context 639 Show data context
Data for 1981 Sex
Census Unemployment Male Female
In employment 25,116 Show data context 18,685 Show data context
Unemployed 2,492 Show data context 1,167 Show data context
Data for 1991 Sex
Census Unemployment Male Female
In employment 24,304 Show data context 20,549 Show data context
Unemployed 2,536 Show data context 1,105 Show data context
Data for 2001 Sex
Census Unemployment Male Female
In employment 30,546 Show data context 27,879 Show data context
Unemployed 1,666 Show data context 907 Show data context
Data for 2011 Sex
Census Unemployment Male Female
In employment 36,087 Show data context 34,276 Show data context
Unemployed 2,233 Show data context 1,400 Show data context
Data for 2021 Sex
Census Unemployment Male Female
In employment 34,588 Show data context 33,978 Show data context
Unemployed 2,037 Show data context 1,994 Show data context
Date Source
1971 UK Data Service, Census 1971 data (Table SAS05: "Economically Active (EA) residents: All residents aged 15 or over")
1981 UK Data Service, Census 1981 data (SAS09: "Employment Status: All Economically Active (EA) residents: Residents aged 16 and over")
1991 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table S08 Economic position: Residents aged 16 and over [100%])
2001 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Tables KS009b and KS009c - "Economic activity")
2011 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Tables KS602UK and KS603UK - Economic activity)
2021 Office for National Statistics, ONS "Create a Custom Dataset" ("Economic activity status" (12 way) by Sex)

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The election result data we hold includes over three hundred party labels, so we have simplified them to these seven simple categories. Of course, most candidates in most elections, and almost every candidate who won, was standing for one of the main parties, but an enormous range of labels have been used by one or two candidates. These groupings have been defined based almost entirely on the party labels, rather than detailed research into party policies, but including words like 'Labour' or 'Conservative' in ...


your party label says a lot about where you stand, and even more about the people voting for you. 'Left' means broadly speaking candidates to the left of the Liberal or Labour parties, 'Right' candidates to the right of the Conservatives. 'Nationalist' means any kind of nationalist, even including Isle of Wight nationalists.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, York Built-up Area through time | Historical Statistics on Work & Poverty | Census Unemployment by Sex, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 31st May 2026