Tony Cunningham

Labour Party | Workington

Constituency

A mix of town and rural, the Workington constituency covers northwest Cumbria. It includes the coastal towns of Workington, Maryport and Silloth as well as Aspatria which lies midway between the Solway and the Lake District. Picturesque Cockermouth and Keswick complete the sixtowns of the constituency.

The Workington and Maryport area has a history connected to steel,mining, the port and fishing. The northern area has good agricultural landand a beautiful coastline. The more southern and easterly parts have anattractive landscape encompassing much of the National Park, with sixlakes and well known fells such as Skiddaw and Borrowdale.

The following is a summary of statistics taken from the 1991 Census of Population.

Workington
Great Britain
England
Per cent
Rank
Per cent
Per cent
Population by age
0-15
19.1
454
20.1
20.1
16-29
19.2
465
20.7
20.8
30-44
21.1
356
21.2
21.3
45-pensionable age
20.5
163
19.3
19.2
Pensionable age
20.2
169
18.7
18.7
Working age
60.7
387
61.2
61.3
Ethnicity of residents
White
99.7
6
94.5
93.8
Black
0.1
615
1.6
1.9
Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi
0.1
630
2.7
3.0
Other non-white
0.2
617
1.2
1.3
Economic activity
Active
77.2
381
77.4
77.9
Inactive
22.8
261
22.6
22.1
Economically active (total=100 per cent)
Full-time employees
60.8
470
62.9
62.9
Part-time employees
15.5
309
15.1
15.1
Self-employed
12.4
215
11.2
11.4
Government schemes
2.1
96
1.3
1.3
Unemployed
9.0
310
9.5
9.3
Employment by industry
Agriculture, forestry and fishing
4.6
91
1.9
1.8
Production and construction
41.3
62
30.2
30.1
Services
54.0
613
97.9
68.1
Housing tenure (percentage of households)
Owner-occupied
65.3
414
66.4
67.6
Rented privately/Housing Association
15.7
127
12.2
12.6
Rented - LA/New Town
19.0
311
21.4
19.8
Amenities and characteristics
Availability of one or more car
67.9
331
66.6
67.6
No central heating
23.2
166
18.9
18.5
Lone-parent families
3.2
339
3.8
3.7
Limiting long-term illness
13.7
251
13.1
12.8
All pensioner households
26.7
166
24.8
24.8
Social class
Professional
3.2
478
4.9
5.0
Managerial and technical
25.0
436
28.6
28.9
Skilled non-manual
17.9
626
23.4
23.6
Skilled manual
27.6
34
20.9
20.8
Partly skilled
17.7
186
15.5
15.3
Unskilled
8.3
72
5.8
5.6
Source: 1991 Census of Population