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".

List County Durham AdmC	West Hartlepool CB/MB

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	19,477	8,713
Married women (included in Total)	0	2,486
Employers	369	78
Managers	763	170
Operatives	17,595	8,217
Working on own account	750	248
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	144	10
1. Agriculture and horticulture	132	10
II. Mining and quarrying	34	7
10. Coal mining	18	2
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	16	5
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	55	10
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	11	0
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	159	111
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	118	8
V. Metal manufacture	2,766	106
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	3,648	754
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	3,107	128
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	0	0
56. Textile machinery and accessories	0	0
58. Constructional engineering	61	0
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	134	20
70. Electrical machinery	9	2
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	6	1
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	331	603
VII. Vehicles	379	35
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	18	1
81. Motor repairers and garages	211	34
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	2	0
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	642	152
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	16	1
X. Textiles	47	66
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	28	34
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	0	1
112. Woollen and worsted	11	25
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	0	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	0	1
123. Textile finishing, etc.	3	1
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	1	1
XII. Clothing	188	1,278
140. Tailoring	119	1,235
141. Dressmaking	0	16
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	57	3
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	447	314
150-162. Food	211	205
163-168. Drink	235	109
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	440	44
170. Timber	312	27
171. Furniture and upholstery	69	7
XV. Paper and printing	429	217
180. Paper and board	244	74
186,189. Printing and publishing	179	67
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	23	40
XVII. Building and contracting	1,852	86
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	492	53
210. Gas	338	38
211. Electricity	104	12
212. Water	50	3
XIX. Transport and communication	2,888	345
220. Railways	1,054	47
221,222. Road passenger transport	418	184
223. Goods transport by road	190	7
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	1,032	36
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	150	64
XX. Distributive trades	2,447	2,075
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	195	61
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	543	56
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	167	93
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	641	528
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	110	46
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	725	1,212
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	66	79
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	250	131
XXII. Public administration and defence	898	217
260. National government service	239	99
265. Local government service	659	118
XXIII. Professional services	578	1,072
271. Education	226	466
273. Medical and dental services	165	481
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	644	1,584
280,281. Entertainment and sport	183	146
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	194	702
286. Laundries	78	239
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	13	55
288. Hairdressing and manicure	43	71
290,291. Private domestic service	32	350
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	10	4

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