Demography of Ipswich

Population	Urban area of Ipswich	Suffolk County	Great Britain
Population (1991 census)	130,103	636,266	54,888,844
Number of households	53,104	254,067	21,897,322
Households in single occupation	27.4	25.1	26.8

 

Population within 10 km of town centre = 171.747

Population within 20km of town centre = 322,580

	Urban area	Great Britain
1991 population male (% )	48.66	48.42
female (% )	51.34	51.58

Age structure (%)	Urban area	Great Britain
0-4	7.1	6.6
5-15	13.5	13.5
16-17	2.5	2.5
18-29	18.9	18.2
30-44	20.6	21.2
45-64	17.9	19.3
65-74	12.0	11.7
74+	7.5	7.0

 

Socio Economic Ipswich
Class Groupings 1991 (%)	Urban area	Great Britain
1	3.8	4.1
2	16.7	18.9
3 Non manual	9.4	8.3
manual	18.8	16.4
4	8.7	8.4
5	3.4	2.9
Other	1.0	1.6
Economically Inactive	37.7	38.3
Unclassified	0.6	1.2

Note Typical occupations by class

1 / professional eg. doctors, solicitors

2 / intermediate eg. school teachers

3 / ( non manual ) skilled, eg. clerks, secretaries etc ( manual skilled eg. electricians, mechanics )

4 / partly skilled eg. lorry drivers

5 / unskilled eg. general labourers

Other / armed forces and inadequately described or not stated

 

Car ownership 1991	Urban area	Great Britain
Households with no car (%)	32.6	33.4
Households with 1 car (%)	47.7	43.5
Households with more than 2 cars (%)	19.7	23.1
Cars per household (no cars)	0.90	0.94

 

Household Tenure 1991	Urban area	Great Britain
Owner occupied	66.8	66.4
Rented from the council	19.1	21.4
Private Rented	8.0	7.1
Other	6.0	5.1

Employment by sector 1991 (%)	Ipswich and Felixestowe area	Great Britain
MAIN SECTORS
Manufacturing Industries	16.2	21.2
Primary Industries	3.6	3.3
Construction	4.9	4.5
Distribution, Hotels & Catering	21.0	21.5
Transport and Communication	12.9	6.1
Banking,`Finance & Business	12.0	12.1
Other Services	29.4	31.2
SUB SECTORS
High tech Industries	15.6	16.2
Retail Distribution	11.2	10.7

Employment Profile 1991(%)	Urban area of Ipswich	Great Britain
Male 16-64 Full time	67.2	60.3
Male 16-64 Part time	3.0	2.1
Male 16-64 Self employed	11.5	13.1
Female 16-59 Full time	35.4	36.2
Female 16-59 Part time	30.3	21.9
Female 16-59 Self employed	2.9	4.0

Student Profile 1991 (%)	Urban area of Ipswich	Great Britain
Male 16-64	3.2	5.4
Female 16-59	3.1	5.9

The working population in the towns of Ipswich and Felixstowe numbers around 140,000 at May 1997, 4.6 %

of the workforce was unemployed.

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