Edinburgh Council (City) : Social Structure Statistics

These simple graphs compare Edinburgh with national trends:

Time Series Period Covered Description
% Workers in Mgt, Admin & Prof. 1841 to 2021 Percentage of all occupied persons in higher managerial, administrative and professional occupatio…
% Workers in Routine & Manual 1841 to 2021 Percentage of all occupied persons in routine and manual occupations, based on the National Statis…

We hold these detailed statistics for Edinburgh, which we graph and tabulate here:

Time Series Period Covered Variables (number of categories)
NS Socio-economic Classification (15-way) 2001 to 2021 NS Socio-economic Classfication (15 way) (15)
NS Socio-economic Classification (4-way) 1841 to 2021 NS Socio-economic Classfication (4 way) (4)
NS Socio-economic Classification: Totals 1841 to 2021 NS Socio-economic Classfication totals (2)
Registrar General's Social Class 1841 to 1931 Registrar General's Social Class (6)
Socio-Economic Group 1971 to 1991 Socio-Economic Groups (17)
Total in all Social Classes 1841 to 1931 Registrar General's Social Class (1)

Read more about how we hold statistics here.