General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

JR

The social grade make up of a place translates into disposable income which, in turn gives rise to footfall and spending power.
In the highest grade covering professional people the number of households in Wigan qualifying is 17%. In Altrincham it’s 53%.
Altrincham attracts professional people with families because of its grammar schools and others in close proximity.

Social Grade has six possible classifications (A, B, C1, C2, D and E). Census data uses a combined, four-way classification:

AB: Higher and intermediate managerial, administrative and professional occupations
C1: Supervisory, clerical, and junior managerial, administrative and professional occupations
C2: Skilled manual occupations
DE: Semi-skilled and unskilled manual occupations; unemployed and lowest grade occupations