Year	Agriculture	Mining	Manufacturing	Util+Const+Transp	Consumer Services	Business Services	Public Services
1841	25,174	5,592	15,952	4,797	20,533	1,582	1,292
1861	28,850	3,246	14,766	6,840	14,732	1,551	1,671
1881	19,146	2,478	11,458	7,201	19,589	1,483	2,791
1911	22,170	4,958	14,147	9,932	22,991	1,848	4,059
1931	18,738	3,319	9,326	10,575	25,624	1,633	6,899
1951	19,913	3,387	12,909	14,687	22,017	2,305	28,180
1971	8,182	859	23,564	14,161	17,812	4,487	19,121
1991	8,870	310	17,337	16,114	28,204	11,688	26,908
2011	5,895	209	14,460	19,504	40,149	20,228	44,557

Date:	Source:
1841	1841 Census of Great Britain, Occupations, Table [1] , 'Occupation Abstract'
1861	1861 Census of England and Wales, Ages, Table 17 , 'Occupations of Males aged 20 Years and upwards in Districts'
1881 - 2011	Census of Population
1971	1971 Census of England and Wales, Economic activity County Leaflets, Table 3 , 'Industry and status by area of workplace and sex', for 'County, county boroughs, urban areas with populations of 50,000 or more, conurbation centres'

This website exists to help people doing personal research projects on particular areas within a locality. So long as you are using our data for only a small number of units, you are not making money out of what you are doing, and you are not systematically re-publishing our data, you do not need to request permission from us, but you do need to acknowledge us as your source with the wording:

"This work is based on data provided through www.VisionofBritain.org.uk and uses historical material which is copyright of the Great Britain Historical GIS Project and the University of Portsmouth".

Where the above statement is included in a web page or similar online resource, the reference to "www.VisionofBritain.org.uk" must be a working hyperlink.

nCube definition