Year	Agriculture	Mining	Manufacturing	Util+Const+Transp	Consumer Services	Business Services	Public Services
1841	495	1	930	342	713	119	103
1861	850	7	1,930	1,837	2,215	427	314
1881	765	7	3,371	2,964	4,687	1,794	864
1911	774	170	35,826	21,130	24,739	13,546	6,919
1931	466	36	47,290	24,186	35,803	7,760	9,092
1951	116	2	40,488	12,864	19,891	1,448	8,550
1971	40	0	28,400	12,310	18,360	4,190	12,300
1991	140	0	10,899	9,648	14,191	7,310	15,873
2011	56	10	3,523	15,288	20,379	14,896	25,069

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'

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