1931 Census of England and Wales, Industry Tables, Table 3 : " Industries (condensed list) of Males and Females (exclusive of persons out of work)".

Show England Dep table	Cheshire AdmC	Alderley Edge UD Alsager UD Altrincham UD/MB Bebington and Bromborough UD Birkenhead CB/MB Bollington UD Bowdon UD Bredbury and Romiley UD Bucklow RD Buglawton UD Cheadle and Gatley UD Chester RD Chester MB/CB Compstall UD Congleton RD Congleton MB Crewe MB Disley RD Dukinfield UD/MB Ellesmere Port and Whitby UD Hale UD Handforth UD Hazel Grove and Bramhall UD Hollingworth UD Hoole UD Hoylake and West Kirby UD Hyde MB Knutsford UD Lymm UD Macclesfield MB Macclesfield RD Malpas RD Marple UD Middlewich UD Mottram in Longendale UD Nantwich RD Nantwich UD Neston and Parkgate UD Northwich RD Northwich UD Runcorn RD Runcorn UD Sale UD/MB Sandbach UD Stalybridge MB Stockport MB/CB Tarporley UD Tarvin RD Tintwistle RD Wallasey MB/UD/CB Wilmslow UD Winsford UD Wirral RD Yeardsley Cum Whaley UD

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
Total in Industries (excluding persons out of work).	310,383	148,203
Out of work (not included below).	48,734	16,805
I.--Fishing.	189	4
II.--Agriculture.	23,933	2,174
III.--Mining and Quarrying, and Treatment of Non-Metalliferous Mining and Quarry Products.      1. Mining and Quarrying.	4,816	612
2. Treatment of Non-Metalliferous Mine and Quarry Products (excluding Gas Works).	750	133
IV.--Manufacture of Bricks, Pottery, Glass, etc.	1,411	106
V.--Manufacture of Chemicals, Dyes, Explosives, Paints, Oils, Grease.      1, 2. Chemicals and Explosives.	8,829	800
3. White Lead, Paints, and Varnish.	491	48
4, 5. Greases, Glue, &c.	6,099	2,517
VI.--Manufacture of Metals, Machines, Implements, Conveyances, Jewellery, Watches.      1. Smelting Converting, Refining, and Rolling of Iron and Steel.	1,072	51
2. Extracting and Refining of Other Metals and Alloys.	131	15
3. Founding and Other Secondary Processes in Metal Working.	4,839	198
4. Engineering (not Marine or Electrical).	16,536	915
5. Electrical Installations, Cables, and Apparatus.	5,046	1,530
6. Construction and Repair of Vehicles.	4,934	299
7. Ship Building and Repairing and Marine Engineering.	3,969	101
8. Cutlery and Small Tools (not Machine Tools).	158	24
9. Other Metal Industries (not Precious Metals, Jewellery, or Plate).	3,882	816
10. Precious Metals, Jewellery, Plate.	348	73
VII.--Manufacture of Textiles and Textile Goods (not Dress); Cellulose.      1. Cotton.	11,114	17,338
2. Wool, Worsted, and Shoddy.	172	194
3. Silk, Natural and Artificial.	1,694	3,749
4. Flax, Hemp, Jute.	19	4
5, 6. Mixed Fibres and Miscellaneous Products.	1,428	2,482
7. Textile Dyeing, Printing, Bleaching, Calendering, Finishing.	4,999	899
VIII.--Preparation of Skins and Leather, and Manufacture of Goods of Leather and Leather Substitute (not Clothing or Footwear).      1. Furs, Skins, Leather.	2,048	269
2. Saddlery, Harness, Bags, Trunks, and Other Goods of Leather and Leather Substitute (not Clothing or Footwear).	328	108
IX.--Manufacture of Clothing (not Knitted).	8,215	13,131
X.--Manufacture of Food, Drink, Tobacco.      1. Food.	7,894	5,262
2. Drink.	1,438	278
3. Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes, Snuff.	380	441
XI.--Wood Working; Manufacture of Cane and Basket Ware, Furniture, Fittings (not elsewhere enumerated).      1. Wood Working and Basket Ware.	1,532	94
2. Furniture (not Metal or Basket); Fittings.	1,520	228
XII.--Paper Making; Manufacture of Stationery and Stationery Requisites; Printing, Bookbinding, and Photography.	5,887	3,116
XIII.-- Building, Decorating, Stone and Slate Gutting and Dressing, and Contracting.	22,039	285
XIV.--Other Manufacturing Industries.      1. Rubber.	755	324
2. Musical Instruments.	172	23
3. Other Manufacturing Industries.	1,606	565
XV.--Gas, Water, Electricity.      510-6. Gas Works Service.	2,399	51
518-21. Water Works Service.	661	6
523-9. Electricity Supply Service.	1,984	66
XVI.--Transport and Communication.      1. Railways.	17,100	601
2. Road.	8,966	314
3-7. Water, Air and Other Transport and Communication.	12,583	694
XVII.--Commerce and Finance.      600-670. Distributive Trades.	48,635	21,315
680-699. Other Commerce and Finance.	9,155	2,267
XVIII.--Public Administration and Defence.      1. Defence.	993	33
2. Central Civil Government (British and Imperial).	5,144	1,716
3. Local Government.	16,096	7,599
XIX.--Professions.	8,088	6,888
XX.--Entertainments and Sport.	2,378	1,287
XXI.--Personal Service (including Hotels and Catering, but excluding Government and Local Authority).	14,993	46,042
XXII.--Other Industries or Industry not stated.	535	118

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Cheshire AdmC:

Rate	Date
Agriculture	1931
Finance & Business Services	1931
Manufacturing	1931
Mining	1931
Public Services	1931

Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	The areal classification is by each person's area of enumeration and not necessarily, therefore, by area of business.

This website does not try to provide an exact replica of the original printed census tables, which often had thousands of rows and far more columns than will fit on our web pages. Instead, we let you drill down from national totals to the most detailed data available. The column headings are those that appeared in the original printed report. The numbers presented here, which are the same ones we use to create statistical maps and graphs, come from the census table and have usually been carefully checked.

The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.

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