Vision of Britain | 1951 Census: Industry

1951 Census of England and Wales, Industry Tables (Laid before Parliament pursuant to Section 4 (1), Census Act, 1920), Table 3 : " Industries (Orders and Selected Units) and Status Aggregates. Occupied Males and Females aged 15 and over for Urban Areas with population of less than 50,000, RD, NT".

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INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	8,463	3,903
Married women (included in Total)	0	1,167
Employers	367	67
Managers	424	114
Operatives	6,979	3,465
Working on own account	693	257
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	252	31
1. Agriculture and horticulture	225	31
II. Mining and quarrying	2	0
10. Coal mining	0	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	2	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	12	0
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	0	0
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	3	0
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	1	0
V. Metal manufacture	0	0
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	954	181
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	155	3
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	0	0
56. Textile machinery and accessories	0	0
58. Constructional engineering	1	1
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	741	34
70. Electrical machinery	1	0
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	45	124
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	11	19
VII. Vehicles	248	23
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	6	0
81. Motor repairers and garages	221	21
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	3	1
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	13	4
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	17	2
X. Textiles	7	7
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	0	0
112. Woollen and worsted	3	0
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	0	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	1	2
123. Textile finishing, etc.	0	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	1	0
XII. Clothing	64	38
140. Tailoring	18	13
141. Dressmaking	0	16
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	46	5
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	420	96
150-162. Food	205	63
163-168. Drink	215	33
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	80	2
170. Timber	41	0
171. Furniture and upholstery	16	1
XV. Paper and printing	85	22
180. Paper and board	1	1
186,189. Printing and publishing	84	21
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	7	0
XVII. Building and contracting	1,086	22
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	420	25
210. Gas	119	6
211. Electricity	260	19
212. Water	41	0
XIX. Transport and communication	1,369	117
220. Railways	522	13
221,222. Road passenger transport	315	36
223. Goods transport by road	50	3
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	295	3
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	181	62
XX. Distributive trades	1,108	1,050
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	130	27
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	35	5
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	56	14
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	401	282
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	48	17
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	388	633
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	50	72
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	119	55
XXII. Public administration and defence	1,035	108
260. National government service	544	45
265. Local government service	491	63
XXIII. Professional services	402	719
271. Education	145	250
273. Medical and dental services	135	383
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	757	1,400
280,281. Entertainment and sport	133	72
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	403	719
286. Laundries	21	110
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	15	35
288. Hairdressing and manicure	43	63
290,291. Private domestic service	77	374
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	2	1

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