Yorkshire and the Humber Government Region :
Registrar General's Social Class

Registrar General's Social Class

Data cube chart.

Registrar General's Social Class 1841 1881 1931
Class 1 4,870 Show data context 15,323 Show data context 24,180 Show data context
Class 2 78,397 Show data context 183,295 Show data context 235,336 Show data context
Class 3 (Non-manual) 4,169 Show data context 30,980 Show data context 238,379 Show data context
Class 3 (Manual) 263,842 Show data context 678,755 Show data context 858,965 Show data context
Class 4 216,621 Show data context 592,300 Show data context 403,091 Show data context
Class 5 33,241 Show data context 79,822 Show data context 297,741 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 using the Registrar General's Social Classification.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Yorkshire and the Humber through time | Social Structure Statistics | Registrar General's Social Class, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 06th December 2025