The pie charts illustrate the proportion of individuals aged 23-65 in the Ashby town compared to the UK as a whole in various occupations in the year 2008.
Overall, personal service was the most common job in Ashby, while the figure for office work in the whole UK accounted for the highest.
To begin, the number of people working in personal service constituted the highest percentage in Ashby, at 21%, which was slightly higher than the UK’s 17%. In contrast, office work was chosen the most by all UK citizens, at 19%, marginally higher than that of people in Ashby. Similarly, the proportion of technicians in the whole UK was considerably higher than that in Ashby, with respective figures being 17% and 9%.
A tiny minority of Ashby’s citizens, at 8%, chose professional work, while the figure for the UK was nearly double, at 14%. Conversely, whereas the percentage of unemployed people and those working on construction work in Ashby was 14% and 16%, respectively, the figures for the UK were only a tenth in both categories. Finally, 14% was the proportion of individuals working in shops in Ashby, slightly higher than that of the UK, by 1%.