Since the 17th century, Stoke-on-Trent has been renowned the world over for its ceramics and pottery industry. This industrial boom served the city well until the latter part of the 20th century – in the 1980s and 90s many of the major ceramics factories closed and unemployment rose sharply. The economic decline resulted in a population fall, but since the mid-2000s a rise in migration of people from eastern European countries has seen it rebound to now stand at 256,000.
Demographic changes
The city is also getting younger as a result of consistently having one of the highest birth rates in England and Wales over the past 15 years. There is now a fifth more children aged five to nine than a decade ago. If things stay the same, the city’s population will keep getting gradually larger, and could increase by 16,080 people, to 269,739, by 2041. Around 20 per cent of residents are aged under 16.
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