April 1991
Data collected in April 1991 revealed that unemployment in the South West of England had risen again, for the 12th month in succession.
In Warminster the jobless figure rose by 13 to a total of 565 – with 388 men and 177 women out of work – a rate of 6.9% of the workforce.
The Warminster travel-to-work area had the highest unemployment rate in the county. Swindon had 6.4%, Trowbridge and Frome had 6.2% and Chippenham was 4.8%. Shaftesbury, to the south, had 5.1%.
In the South West as a whole, Cornwall was the worse hit, with 10% out of work, with Devon at 7.6%, Dorset at 7.1%, Avon at 6.9%, and Somerset at 6.3%. These were all worse than Wiltshire with 5.8% and Gloucestershire with 5.4%.
A total number of 2,809 persons were unemployed in West Wiltshire on 11 April 1991 (the date the statistics were collected).
Warminster Job Centre had 106 unfilled vacancies on that day.