Statistics

Total Population (2001 census data)

  Thirsk
(numbers)
Hambleton
(numbers)
Great Britain
(numbers)
All people 5,629 84,111 57,103,923
Males 2,790 41,470 27,758,419
Females 2,839 42,641 29,345,504

 

Working age population (2001 census data)

  Thirsk
(numbers)
Thirsk
(%)
Hambleton
(%)
Great Britain
(%)
All people - working age 3,400 60.4 60.2 61.5
Males - working age 1,799 64.5 64.3 65.1
Females - working age 1,601 56.4 56.2 58.0

 

Employment by occupation (2001 census data)

  Thirsk
(numbers)
Thirsk
(%)
Hambleton
(%)
Great Britain
(%)
1 Managers and senior officials 382 14.4 17.5 14.9
2 Professional 184 6.9 11.9 11.2
3 Associate professional & technical 306 11.5 14.5 13.9
4 Administrative & secretarial 280 10.5 11.1 13.2
5 Skilled trades 416 15.7 14.7 11.8
6 Personal services 198 7.5 6.5 6.9
7 Sales and customer services 137 5.2 5.6 7.7
8 Process plant and machine operatives 315 11.9 6.7 8.7
9 Elementary occupations 438 16.5 11.6 11.8

 

Qualifications (2001 census data)

  Thirsk
(numbers)
Thirsk
(%)
Hambleton
(%)
Great Britain
(%)
All people
No qualifications or level unknown 1,751 42.9 32.4 35.8
Lower level qualifications 1,755 43.0 43.9 43.9
Higher level qualifications 574 14.1 23.7 20.4
In employment
No qualifications or level unknown 892 33.2 25.1 25.6
Lower level qualifications 1,360 50.7 48.2 48.9
Higher level qualifications 432 16.1 26.7 25.5
Unemployed
No qualifications or level unknown 44 37.3 33.9 38.4
Lower level qualifications 58 49.2 46.3 47.2
Higher level qualifications 16 13.6 19.8 14.5

 

More detailed labour market information for Thirsk can be found on the NOMIS website. Most of the data contained in this report is from the 2001 census.

More recent data for the Hambleton district can also be found on this page of the NOMIS website.

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