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".

Show England Dep table	Somerset AdmC	Axbridge RD Bath MB/CB Bathavon RD Bridgwater MB Bridgwater RD Burnham on Sea UD Chard RD Chard MB Clevedon UD Clutton RD Crewkerne UD Dulverton RD Frome UD Frome RD Glastonbury MB Ilminster UD Keynsham UD Langport RD Long Ashton RD Minehead UD Norton Radstock UD Portishead UD Shepton Mallet UD Shepton Mallet RD Street UD Taunton MB Taunton RD Watchet UD Wellington RD Wellington UD Wells RD Wells MB Weston super Mare UD/MB Williton RD Wincanton RD Yeovil MB Yeovil RD

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	160,365	66,646
Married women (included in Total)	0	22,175
Employers	7,890	1,003
Managers	6,196	1,837
Operatives	130,803	60,073
Working on own account	15,476	3,733
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	25,475	2,703
1. Agriculture and horticulture	24,987	2,693
II. Mining and quarrying	4,874	108
10. Coal mining	3,074	35
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	1,800	73
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	2,146	164
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	1,041	43
24. Cement	11	1
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	1,326	241
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	1,062	171
V. Metal manufacture	121	9
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	7,387	1,439
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	56	1
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	143	18
56. Textile machinery and accessories	12	11
58. Constructional engineering	1,118	75
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	4,444	487
70. Electrical machinery	256	69
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	714	393
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	644	385
VII. Vehicles	7,668	781
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	332	28
81. Motor repairers and garages	4,476	433
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	2,361	315
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	1,193	235
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	524	118
X. Textiles	1,602	1,228
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	1	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	37	23
112. Woollen and worsted	801	516
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	70	178
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	6	14
123. Textile finishing, etc.	4	30
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	1,240	265
XII. Clothing	4,692	7,484
140. Tailoring	362	464
141. Dressmaking	15	424
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	2,388	1,619
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	7,360	2,989
150-162. Food	6,195	2,812
163-168. Drink	1,149	170
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	3,643	467
170. Timber	1,046	44
171. Furniture and upholstery	1,935	358
XV. Paper and printing	5,023	2,230
180. Paper and board	1,900	474
186,189. Printing and publishing	2,866	1,306
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	625	372
XVII. Building and contracting	16,046	323
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	4,058	347
210. Gas	1,528	141
211. Electricity	2,212	200
212. Water	318	6
XIX. Transport and communication	12,320	1,602
220. Railways	4,659	132
221,222. Road passenger transport	2,352	208
223. Goods transport by road	1,818	81
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	346	5
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	2,882	1,143
XX. Distributive trades	15,291	11,459
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	1,725	238
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	740	93
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	901	286
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	5,251	3,532
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	1,145	265
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	4,988	6,431
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	541	614
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	2,075	769
XXII. Public administration and defence	19,883	3,827
260. National government service	13,961	2,738
265. Local government service	5,922	1,089
XXIII. Professional services	7,640	11,078
271. Education	2,508	4,284
273. Medical and dental services	2,575	5,458
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	7,964	16,352
280,281. Entertainment and sport	885	558
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	3,152	6,540
286. Laundries	238	883
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	79	167
288. Hairdressing and manicure	427	700
290,291. Private domestic service	2,515	7,068
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	189	56

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

Rate	Date
Agriculture	1951
Finance & Business Services	1951
Manufacturing	1951
Mining	1951
Public Services	1951

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